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The majority of lubricants used in the world today result in environmental pollution through total-loss applications, spillage, evaporation and mishandling. As a way to reduce this environmental damage, new lubricants that are rapidly biodegradable and ecologically non-toxic are being developed. This chapter dwells on the need to highlight the use of environmentally friendly lubricants and their constituents, with particular emphasis on their environmental benefits, applications, the limits to their use, their technical performance characteristics and related cost aspects. Vegetable and ester based lubricants are compared with conventional mineral-oil based materials.
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Madanhire, I., Mbohwa, C. (2016). Environment and the Economics of Long Drain Interval. In: Mitigating Environmental Impact of Petroleum Lubricants. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31358-0_11
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