Rheology Study of Plant Oil for Marine Application

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• 作者：W.B. Wan Nik^a ; ^{niksani@umt.edu.my" class="auth_mail} ; F. Zulkifli^a ; A.F. Ayob^a ; A.S.A. Kader^b ; A.R.M. Warikh^c
• 关键词：Marine application ; Plant oil ; Rheology ; Viscosity
• 刊名：Procedia Engineering
• 出版年：2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：68
• 期：Complete
• 页码：138-144
• 全文大小：978 K

文摘

Environmental issues are among the main concern nowadays. Interest in developing environmental products arises concurrently with the industrial development. The use of plant oil as hydraulic fluid would help to minimize hazardous pollution caused by accidental spillage, lower disposal costs of the used fluid and meet the environmental regulations. This research was conducted to investigate the rheology elements and potential of plant oil in marine application. The properties and characteristics of plant oil were done via rheological study by focusing on the viscosity effect as a function of temperature and shear rate. The rheological models indicate that this plant oil belong to pseudo-plastic category. Further analysis was done to fit the experimental data with various models and the findings show that the Cross and Carreau models fit well with the experimental data. The plant oil was used in 1000 hour operation in a hydraulic system, built in the Universiti Malaysia Terengganu. The overall results suggest the potential substitution of plant oil as an energy transport media in marine application.