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Informationen zum Autor Jan C. J. Bart is a Full Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina, Italy. Emanuele Gucciardi is a Post-doctor researcher at the ZSW (Zentrum für Sonnenenergie-und Wasserstoff-Forschung) of Ulm, Germany. Stefano Cavallaro is an Associate Professor of Industrial Chemistry at the University of Messina, Italy. Klappentext Biolubricants are manufactured directly from vegetable oil formulations or synthesized from renewable mineral oils. They are designed to be biodegradable and nontoxic to humans. The authors provide an essential overview of scientific and technological developments enabling the cost-effective improvement of biolubricants. Zusammenfassung Biolubricants: Science and technology is a comprehensive! interdisciplinary and timely review of this important subject. Inhaltsverzeichnis Renewable lubricants; Principles of lubrication; Lubricants: properties and characteristics; The transition from reliance on fossil resources to biomass valorisation; Renewable feedstocks for lubricant production; Chemical transformations of renewable lubricant feedstocks; Formulating lubricating oils; Quality assurance of biolubricants; Legislation of relevance to lubricants; Biolubricant product development; Environmental life-cycle assessment (LCA) of lubricants; Biolubricant product groups and technological applications; Markets for biolubricants; Lubricant use and disposal; Advanced lubricant fluids; Epilogue: The outlook for biolubricant science and technology.
