Lubricity in Fuel
A special issue of Lubricants (ISSN 2075-4442).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2014) | Viewed by 10236
Special Issue Editor
Interests: vegetable oil-based and industrial products including printing inks; paints; coatings; lubricants; biodiesel; hydraulic oils; polymers and composites
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The diesel fuel Portion of petroleum naturally contains sulfur compounds that provide good lubricity. Requiring reduced levels of sulfur will therefore lower the lubricities of both No. 1 and No. 2 diesel fuels. A lack of lubricity in these fuels causes premature equipment failures. Consequently, EPA mandates that further lower sulfur requirements will exacerbate the fuels’ lubricity problems.
This Special Issue will focus on lubricity, lubricity enhancers (i.e., biodiesel), lubricity test methods (advantages/shortcomings), lubricity additives, and operational conditions and requirements.
Dr. Sevim Z. Erhan
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- fuel
- biodiesel
- lubricity
- sulfur
- diesel
- additives
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