Towards Green Lubrication in Machining

The book gives an overview of environmental friendly gaseous and vapour, refrigerated compressed gas, solid lubricant, mist lubrication, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) and vegetable oils that can be used as lubricants and additives in industrial machining applications. This book introduces veget...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Liew Yun Hsien, Willey
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2015, 2015
Edition:1st ed. 2015
Series:SpringerBriefs in Green Chemistry for Sustainability
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:The book gives an overview of environmental friendly gaseous and vapour, refrigerated compressed gas, solid lubricant, mist lubrication, minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) and vegetable oils that can be used as lubricants and additives in industrial machining applications. This book introduces vegetable oils as viable and good alternative resources because of their environmental friendly, non-toxic and readily biodegradable nature.  The effectiveness of various types of vegetables oils as lubricants and additives in reducing wear and friction is discussed in this book. Engineers and scientist working in the field of lubrication and machining will find this book useful
Physical Description:XIII, 46 p. 13 illus., 1 illus. in color online resource
ISBN:9789812872661