Evaluation of friction and wear behavior of date palm fruit syrup as an environmentally friendly lubricant

Mazin Tahir; Abdul Samad Mohammed; Umar Azam Muhammad

doi:10.3390/ma12101589

Evaluation of friction and wear behavior of date palm fruit syrup as an environmentally friendly lubricant

Mazin Tahir
, Abdul Samad Mohammed^*
, Umar Azam Muhammad

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The effect of various operational factors, such as sliding speed, normal load and temperature on the tribological properties of Date palm fruit syrup (DPFS) as an environmentally friendly lubricant, is investigated. Ball-on-disc wear tests are conducted on mild steel samples in the presence of DPFS as a lubricant under different conditions and the coefficient of friction and wear rate are measured. Scanning electron microscopy, stylus profilometry, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy are used to evaluate the wear tracks to determine the underlying wear mechanisms. Results showed that DPFS has excellent tribological properties in terms of low friction and low wear rates making it a potential candidate to be used as a lubricant in tribological applications.

Original language	English
Article number	1589
Journal	Materials
Volume	12
Issue number	10
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/ma12101589
State	Published - 1 May 2019

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Keywords

Date palm fruit syrup
Environmentally friendly
FT-IR
Friction
Tribology
Wear

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Condensed Matter Physics

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