US SCIENTISTS CREATE COLD RESISTENT BIO-FUEL
July 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
AGRICULTURAL Research Service scientists in the US have developed an organic alternative to animal fat and vegetable oil bio-based lubricants that is more cost efficient and better performing than existing bio-lubricants, rivalling commercially available petroleum-based lubricants.
The new lube is chemically connected with different unsaturated fats called estolides, the building blocks of high-oleic oils, such as sunflowers and canola. In tests the unsaturated estolides withstood -30C and saturated estolides -40C, before thickening into gels, ...
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