SYNTHETICS MINERAL OILS AND BIO-BASED LUBRICANTS

Highlighting the major economic and industrial changes in the lubrication industry since the first edition Synthetics Mineral Oils and Bio-Based Lubricants: Chemistry and Technology Third Edition highlights the major economic and industrial changes in the lubrication industry and outlines the state of the art in each major lubricant application area. Chapters cover the use of lubricant fluids growth or decline of market areas and applications potential new applications production capacities and regulatory issues including biodegradability toxicity and food production equipment lubrication.The highly-anticipated third edition features new and updated chapters including those on automatic and continuously variable transmission fluids fluids for food-grade applications oil-soluble polyalkylene glycols functional bio-based lubricant base stocks farnesene-derived polyolefins estolides bio-based lubricants from soybean oil and trends in construction equipment lubrication.Features include:Contains an index of terms acronyms and analytical testing methods.Presents the latest conventions for describing upgraded mineral oil base fluids.Considers all the major lubrication areas: engine oils industrial lubricants food-grade applications greases and space-age applicationsIncludes individual chapters on lubricant applications―such as environmentally friendly disk drive and magnetizable fluids―for major market areas around the globe.In a single unique volume Synthetics Mineral Oils and Bio-Based Lubricants: Chemistry and Technology Third Edition offers property and performance information of fluids theoretical and practical background to their current applications and strong indicators for global market trends that will influence the industry for years to come.