Originally Posted by MolaKule
Originally Posted by double vanos
Interesting read.
https://www.infineuminsight.com/en-...um=email&utm_source=Infineum+Insight
That's going to be some thin oil!
Scroll down to this question: Where do you see the best opportunities for bio base stock growth and why?
These guys in the article act as as if this is something new, which it isn't. Research has been ongoing on this topic before in a serious manner since the gas distribution problem that occurred in the seventies.
If you want more info here are some references:
Tribological Properties of some Vegetable oils and fats, Lubrication Engineering 45 (11), 1988
Synthetics, Mineral Oils, and Bio-Based Lubricants, CRC, 2006.
Fats and Oils Handbook, AOCS Press, 1998.
Vegetable Oils and lubricants,Grasas Aceities, 39, (Seville) 1988.
Also see,
https://www.bobistheoilguy.com/forums/ubbthreads.php/topics/729310/esters-general#Post729310
and from one of our own members who developed esters:
https://www.bobistheoilguy.com/esters-in-synthetic-lubricants/
Esters are not the only synthetic oils that are being used in mixtures of base oils.
Thank you for this response and further reading material.