Microalgae Biomass as a New Potential Source of Sustainable Green Lubricants
Lubricants are materials able to reduce friction and/or wear of any type of moving surfaces facilitating smooth operations, maintaining reliable machine functions, and reducing risks of failures while contributing to energy savings. At present, most worldwide used lubricants are derived from crude o...
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| author | Leonardo I. Farfan-Cabrera Mariana Franco-Morgado Armando González-Sánchez José Pérez-González Benjamín M. Marín-Santibáñez |
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| description | Lubricants are materials able to reduce friction and/or wear of any type of moving surfaces facilitating smooth operations, maintaining reliable machine functions, and reducing risks of failures while contributing to energy savings. At present, most worldwide used lubricants are derived from crude oil. However, production, usage and disposal of these lubricants have significant impact on environment and health. Hence, there is a growing pressure to reduce demand of this sort of lubricants, which has fostered development and use of green lubricants, as vegetable oil-based lubricants (biolubricants). Despite the ecological benefits of producing/using biolubricants, availability of the required raw materials and agricultural land to create a reliable chain supply is still far from being established. Recently, biomass from some microalgae species has attracted attention due to their capacity to produce high-value lipids/oils for potential lubricants production. Thus, this multidisciplinary work reviews the main chemical-physical characteristics of lubricants and the main attempts and progress on microalgae biomass production for developing oils with pertinent lubricating properties. In addition, potential microalgae strains and chemical modifications to their oils to produce lubricants for different industrial applications are identified. Finally, a guide for microalgae oil selection based on its chemical composition for specific lubricant applications is provided. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-be48936891f14854bb23a4d9ba98e5722023-11-23T21:20:26ZengMDPI AGMolecules1420-30492022-02-01274120510.3390/molecules27041205Microalgae Biomass as a New Potential Source of Sustainable Green LubricantsLeonardo I. Farfan-Cabrera0Mariana Franco-Morgado1Armando González-Sánchez2José Pérez-González3Benjamín M. Marín-Santibáñez4Tecnológico de Monterrey, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64849, MexicoTecnológico de Monterrey, Escuela de Ingeniería y Ciencias, Ave. Eugenio Garza Sada 2501, Monterrey 64849, MexicoInstituto de Ingeniería, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Escolar, Ciudad Universitaria, Mexico City 04510, MexicoInstituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Superior de Física y Matemáticas, Laboratorio de Reología y Física de la Materia Blanda, U.P. Adolfo López Mateos Edif. 9, Col. Lindavista, Alc. Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City 07738, MexicoInstituto Politécnico Nacional, Escuela Superior de Ingeniería Química e Industrias Extractivas, U.P. Adolfo López Mateos Edif. 7, Col. Lindavista, Alc. Gustavo A. Madero, Mexico City 07738, MexicoLubricants are materials able to reduce friction and/or wear of any type of moving surfaces facilitating smooth operations, maintaining reliable machine functions, and reducing risks of failures while contributing to energy savings. At present, most worldwide used lubricants are derived from crude oil. However, production, usage and disposal of these lubricants have significant impact on environment and health. Hence, there is a growing pressure to reduce demand of this sort of lubricants, which has fostered development and use of green lubricants, as vegetable oil-based lubricants (biolubricants). Despite the ecological benefits of producing/using biolubricants, availability of the required raw materials and agricultural land to create a reliable chain supply is still far from being established. Recently, biomass from some microalgae species has attracted attention due to their capacity to produce high-value lipids/oils for potential lubricants production. Thus, this multidisciplinary work reviews the main chemical-physical characteristics of lubricants and the main attempts and progress on microalgae biomass production for developing oils with pertinent lubricating properties. In addition, potential microalgae strains and chemical modifications to their oils to produce lubricants for different industrial applications are identified. Finally, a guide for microalgae oil selection based on its chemical composition for specific lubricant applications is provided.https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/4/1205microalgae biomasslipidsgreen lubricantsbiolubricantssustainabilitylubrication |
| spellingShingle | Leonardo I. Farfan-Cabrera Mariana Franco-Morgado Armando González-Sánchez José Pérez-González Benjamín M. Marín-Santibáñez Microalgae Biomass as a New Potential Source of Sustainable Green Lubricants Molecules microalgae biomass lipids green lubricants biolubricants sustainability lubrication |
| title | Microalgae Biomass as a New Potential Source of Sustainable Green Lubricants |
| title_full | Microalgae Biomass as a New Potential Source of Sustainable Green Lubricants |
| title_fullStr | Microalgae Biomass as a New Potential Source of Sustainable Green Lubricants |
| title_full_unstemmed | Microalgae Biomass as a New Potential Source of Sustainable Green Lubricants |
| title_short | Microalgae Biomass as a New Potential Source of Sustainable Green Lubricants |
| title_sort | microalgae biomass as a new potential source of sustainable green lubricants |
| topic | microalgae biomass lipids green lubricants biolubricants sustainability lubrication |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/27/4/1205 |
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