An experimental investigation of palm pressed fibre waste as lubricant in strip drawing

• Main Authors: Sulaiman, Mohd. Hafis, Mohd. Ridzuan, Mohd. Jamir, Mohamed, Alina Rahayu, Farahana, R. N., Samion, Syahrullail
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Penerbit UTM 2014
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/51793/1/SyahrullailSamion2014_Anexperimentalinvestigation.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/51793/; http://dx.doi.org/10.11113/jt.v66.2703
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

The abundance of palm pressed fibre (PPF) biomass waste generates greenhouse gases. Therefore, an experimental study on catalytic pyrolysis technology using a tubular reactor on PPF oil was performed at temperature of 450 °C, which gave oil product yields of 44.1 percent. Viscosity of the PPF oil as a function of temperature was measured at different temperatures ranging from 25 °C to 50 °C. The viscosity of the oils was shown to decrease with increases in temperature. Finally, PPF oil was tested as lubricant in strip drawing and compared with palm olein (PO). A comparison of strip drawn aluminium samples show that the lubrication performance of PPF oil varies with PO in a remarkably similar way