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The depletion of petroleum resources and the intensification of environmental problems have necessitated the development of renewable products from bio-based chemicals instead of petroleum resources. Herein, a new kind of ester lubricating oil, isooctyl furan dicarboxylate (isooctyl-FD), was prepared from bio-based 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid. The structure of isooctyl-FD was evaluated using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and high-resolution mass spectroscopy. Its physicochemical and tribological properties including thermal and oxidation stabilities, flash point and pour point, viscosity and viscosity index, and friction-reducing and anti-wear properties were systematically evaluated. The results show that isooctyl-FD has comparable thermal and oxidation stability to the synthetic ester lubricating oil, isooctyl sebacate (isooctyl-S). Its friction-reducing and anti-wear properties are superior to isooctyl-S; however, its viscosity-temperature and low-temperature properties are inferior to isooctyl-S.


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Lubricating properties of ester oil prepared from bio-based 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid

Show Author's information Mingjin FAN1( )Jia AI1Shuai ZHANG1Chenlu YANG3Xin DU1Ping WEN1Xiangyuan YE1Feng ZHOU2Weiming LIU2
Shanxi Key Laboratory of Phytochemistry, College of Chemistry & Chemical Engineering, Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, Baoji 721013, China
State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
College of Chemistry and Molecular Science, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China

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The depletion of petroleum resources and the intensification of environmental problems have necessitated the development of renewable products from bio-based chemicals instead of petroleum resources. Herein, a new kind of ester lubricating oil, isooctyl furan dicarboxylate (isooctyl-FD), was prepared from bio-based 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid. The structure of isooctyl-FD was evaluated using nuclear magnetic resonance imaging and high-resolution mass spectroscopy. Its physicochemical and tribological properties including thermal and oxidation stabilities, flash point and pour point, viscosity and viscosity index, and friction-reducing and anti-wear properties were systematically evaluated. The results show that isooctyl-FD has comparable thermal and oxidation stability to the synthetic ester lubricating oil, isooctyl sebacate (isooctyl-S). Its friction-reducing and anti-wear properties are superior to isooctyl-S; however, its viscosity-temperature and low-temperature properties are inferior to isooctyl-S.

Keywords: 2, 5-furandicarboxylic acid, synthetic ester, bio-based platform compound, lubricating oil

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Received: 05 March 2018
Revised: 25 May 2018
Accepted: 19 December 2018
Published: 19 March 2019
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The work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Fund (51675006), the project of Science and Technology Department of Shaanxi Province (2016JZ017), and the Local Servicing Research Project of the Education Department of Shanxi Province (15JF007).

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