Glycerol-based fully green and renewable lubricants
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| Coordinator | Luleå tekniska universitet |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 4 260 000 |
| Project duration | June 2023 - November 2025 |
| Status | Ongoing |
| Venture | The strategic innovation programme Bioinnovation |
| Call | Enabling technologies and processes for bio-based products |
Purpose and goal
The project aims at developing glycerol-based fully green and renewable greases to solve the cleaning problem of traditional oil-based greases and to solve the skin irritation issues of traditional petroleum-based greases (especially synthetic esters-based ones). One of the main objectives of the proposed project is contributing to reach fossil free and sustainable society by making good use of biomass.
Expected effects and result
1. The developed glcerol-based greases will be fully evaluated in the lab. 2. The developed glcerol-based greases will fulfil the industrial standard test requirements. 3. For one to two industry applications, the developed glycerol-based greases will be ready for large scale marketing activities.
Planned approach and implementation
1 Optimizing formulation 2 Lab scale performance testing 3 Component testing 4 Field testing 5 Grease large scale production study 6 Grease market entering preparing.