The Lubricity Analysis of Cutting Fluid Emulsions

Abstract

The new generation of cutting fluids should have some characteristics, such as low toxicity and biodegradability. A bio-cutting fluid emulsion are an excellent option because they present those properties, as well as good mechanical performance. The present study aims to investigate the lubricity of O/W emulsions (cutting fluid emulsion), varying the concentration of anionic surfactant (1%, 2.5% and 5%) and epoxidized oil (5%, 10%, 15%, 20% e 25%). A sunflower oil was chemically modified by epoxidation reaction, then its viscosity, iodine and oxirane index, density, and acidity were characterized. The performances of the emulsions were evaluated using a tribometer HFRR (High Frequency Reciprocating Rig), under hydrodynamic lubrication conditions. The ball wear scars were analyzed using an optical microscopy. The results showed that a low concentration of surfactant promote friction and wear reduction. Based on the tribological performance, the emulsions with 5% and 10% of epoxidized oil are more suitable.

Keywords:
O/W emulsion; Epoxidized Vegetal Oil; Tribological Tests; Cutting Fluid Concentration

1. Introduction

Cutting fluids are classified as straight, synthetic, semi-synthetic and soluble oils. Each one has different properties, and they are selected depending on machining processes requirements¹.

The main negative effects of petroleum based lubricants are linked to environmental problems generated from their inappropriate use, contaminating surface water, groundwater, air, soil, and consequently, agricultural products, including food ². Despite their widespread use, operators can develop serious health problems such as lung cancer, respiratory and dermatological diseases³. Therefore, it has been notice a growing interest in development of environmentally friendly cutting fluids.

In this context, vegetable oils are a suitable alternative to replace petroleum based oil, once that they are biodegradable and non-toxic⁴. In fact, vegetable oils have most of the desirable lubrication properties, great lubricants must have low volatility, high viscosity index, easy miscibility with other fluids, reduced toxicity and better performance⁵. However, a high degree of multiple unsaturation of C-C in the fatty acid chain of many vegetable oils is responsible for its low temperature and low oxidative stability, which restricts their use as lubricants at a modest temperature range⁶.

In this way, a thermal and oxidant stability improvement of the vegetable oils can be achieved using a chemical modification. Among the methods of chemical modification, the epoxidation reaction is one of the most important functionalization reactions to eliminate the thermal and oxidative instability derived from the presence of unsaturated bonds in vegetable oils⁷. Besides, this process can result in an oil with better anticorrosion properties and greater affinity to the metal surface, presence of oxygen from the oxirane group⁸.

Epoxidized vegetable oils interact easily with the metal surface, due to their polar characteristics, reducing friction and wear⁹.

In the cutting fluids formulation, the modified vegetable oils are more than just a biocompatible alternative, due to their biodegradable characteristics, they also have low levels of corrosivity, excellent lubricity, low volatility and good viscosity and temperature characteristics¹⁰.

In addition, they show excellent physical and chemical adsorption properties due to their chemical structure, promoting the formation of a more resistant lubricating films¹¹.

O/W emulsions are widely used in tribological applications in order to facilitate operation (cutting or shaping) of metals, especially steel. These emulsions have an important property; they form hydrodynamic films efficiently¹². The O/W emulsions are complex mixtures of water, base oils and additives. The oil phase acts as a lubricant, reducing the friction between workpiece and tool, while the water phase promotes the cooling for different machining processes. This fluid is suitable for turning, milling and grinding process due to the use of new cutting tool materials, such as hard metals and high cutting speeds. It reduce the effect of generated heat on cutting tool wear¹.

In the emulsion, the surfactant aid in the oil drop dispersion and influencing in drop size¹³. The smaller the droplets, the better is the drop transport to the metal surface, reducing friction and improving lubricity performance¹⁴. The objective of this study is to investigate the lubricity of O/W emulsion varying the concentration of anionic surfactant and epoxidized oil.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Surfactant preparation

The surfactant used was a mixture of animal fat and coconut oil, with a mass percentage of 95% and 5%, respectively, synthesized in the laboratory. Table 1 presents the mean composition of fatty acids present in animal fat and coconut oil¹⁵.

Table 1
Mean composition (wt.%) in fatty acids in coconut oil and animal fat.

Acid, Carbon number	Coconut oil (wt.%)	Animal fat (wt.%)
Capric, C10	6	-
Lauric,C12	47	-
Myristic, C14	18	5
Palmitic, C16	9	29
Stearic, C18	3	15
Oleic, C18=	6	36
Linoleic, C18, 2=	2	1.5
Palmitoleic C16=	6	3

2.2. Epoxidation of sunflower vegetable oil

Sunflower oil was epoxidized with formic acid "in situ", using peroxide as oxygen source and sulfuric acid as catalyst, 4% (w/w). The molar ratio of hydrogen peroxide/formic acid/vegetable oil was 11/5/1. The reaction occurred by adding formic acid to the sunflower oil, understeering for 30 minutes. Then, hydrogen peroxide was added, drop by drop, per 20 minutes. After this, the mixture was kept under stirring for 5 hours at 50 °C. Then, the organic phase was separated by decantation and washed with distilled water at 70 °C until reaching a pH between 6 and 7. Finally, the oily layer was dried in an oven at 90-100 °C for 4 h. Table 2 presents the mean composition of fatty acids in sunflower oil¹⁶.

Table 2
Fatty acid concentrations in sunflower oil.

Fatty acids (%)	Sunflower oil
Myristic C14:0	TRACE
Palmitic C16:0	6.18
Palmitoleic C16:1	TRACE
Stearic C18:0	3.41
Oleic C18:1	25.60
Ricinoleic C18:1:OH	TRACE
Linileic C18:2	64.80
Linilenic C18:3	TRACE
Arachidic C20:0	TRACE
Lignoceric C24:0	TRACE

2.3. Epoxidized sunflower oil characterization

The physicochemical characterization of epoxidized sunflower oil was performed in triplicate, according to the ASTM standards listed in Table 3.

Table 3
ASTM standards used to determine each property of epoxidized and commercial sunflower oil.

Property	Viscosity	Viscosity index	Density	Acidity	Iodine value	Oxirane index
Standard	D44517	D227018	D129819	D66420	AOCS Cd 1-2521	D 165222

2.4. Emulsion Preparation

The oil in water emulsions were prepared using 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% (by weight) of epoxidized sunflower oil and 1%, 2.5% and 5% of surfactant (5% coconut oil and 95% animal fat). The emulsions were prepared at 1500 rpm for 10 minutes.

2.5. Evaluation of tribological performance of emulsions

The tribological performance tests of O/W emulsions were evaluated in High Frequency Reciprocating Rig (HFRR). The tests conditions were based on ASTM standard D6079-04²³.

This test consists of ball disc to measure friction and wear under boundary lubricating conditions. The description of the tribological pair is presented in Table 4, both the ball and the disc were made of AISI 52100 steel, which chemical compositions were determined using a X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF), Table 5. The tribological pair was subjected to a condition of 2 N, 50 Hz and submerged into 2 ml of the emulsion during 75 min at a constant temperature of 60 °C. The tribological pair (ball and disc) were cleaned by immersion in toluene for 7 minutes, dried with hot air and then immersed for 3 minutes in acetone. Each test was performed in triplicate in order to provide an average coefficient of friction reported in this study. Table 4 shows the physical characteristics of the tribological pair (ball and disc).

Table 4
The physical characteristics of the tribological pair.

	Ball	Disc
Hardness (HV)	(570-750)	(190-210)
Dimensions	Diameter = 6.0 mm	Diameter = 10.0 mmThickness = 3.0 mm
RoughnessRa (µm)	0.05	0.02

Table 5
Chemical composition by weight (% p.) from the AISI 52100 steel disc.

Fe	C	Mn	Cr	S	Si	Al	Ca
Bal	0.900	0.413	1.567	0.127	0.546	0.105	0.154

2.6. Ball Wear Analysis

The standards that evaluate the lubricity of a lubricant only consider the diameter of the wear scar calculated from its size (X and Y) analyzed in a light microscope, without observing the morphology of the wear. Therefore, it is important to analyze the image of the ball after testing the HFRR.

3. Results and Discussion

3.1. Epoxidized sunflower oil characterization

The physicochemical analysis of biolubricant properties (Density, Acidity, Iodine Index, Oxirane Index, Viscosity and Viscosity Index) are presented and compared with the commercial oil properties in Table 6. These properties are very important for evaluating the lubricant quality.

Table 6
Physicochemical Properties of Epoxidized and Commercial Sunflower oil.

Analysis	Density (g/cm3)	Acidity (mg KOH/g)	Iodine index (g I2/100g fat)	Oxirane index (%)m/m	Viscosity (cSt) at 40 ºC and 100ºC	ViscosityIndex
OGC	0.9183	±0.08	119.77	-	27/11.5	147
OGEAF	0.937	±0.18	1.3	4.2%	70.23/13.3	155

• Legend: OGEAF (Epoxidized Sunflower Oil with Formic Acid); OGC (Commercial Sunflower Oil).

According to Anvisa²⁴, the density of sunflower oils should be between 0.9150-0.9200 g/cm³ at 25 °C. Thus, for the sunflower bio-lubricant, it was observed that its density is little higher than the obtained for commercial sunflower oil. This increase is due to the epoxidation reaction, which modifies its physical and chemical properties²⁵.

The efficiency of the epoxidation reaction was determined by iodine index, a parameter used to indicate the presence of double bonds in a fatty acid ester, which corresponds to the number of centigrams of iodine absorbed per 1 gram of fat. The higher the index value, the greater the degree of unsaturation, indicating the vegetable oil tendency to oxidize, low values indicate epoxidation efficiency²⁶. As noted in Table 6, there was a significant reduction, 119.77 g of I₂/100g of Sunflower oil to 1.3 g of I₂/100g of epoxidized oil, indicating the epoxidation process efficiency²⁷.

The biolubricant presented a higher acid number when compared with the sunflower oil, which is caused by the residual acid from the epoxidation reaction. A high acidity aid reducing the lubricant conservation status, increasing wear and corrosiveness in the mechanical parts and equipment²⁸. However, the acidity values of the epoxidized oil are adequate to the use it as lubricant.

The biolubricant showed higher viscosity values (Table 6) compared to the commercial sunflower oil. It is important to consider that the viscosity allows a good atomization of the oil and preserves its characteristic as a lubricant. This increase in viscosity is due to conversion reaction of unsaturation bonds in oxirane rings²⁹. The emulsions viscosities were measured, and all developed O/W emulsions presented similar values, the average viscosity was of ± 0.292 cP with standard deviation of ± 0.0265.

Viscosity index (VI) is a number that indicates the viscosity variation of an oil when the temperature is changed. A higher viscosity index indicates small changes in viscosity in large range of temperature, whereas low values indicate high variations of viscosity³⁰. The bio-lubricants based on epoxidized oils have higher VI (about 155), meaning good efficiency at high temperatures, keeping its thickness³¹.

The conversion value (C) of unsaturation bonds was 59.65%. This conversion value was obtained by the relation between the experimental value (OOexp) and theoretical oxirane oxygen (OOth), which corresponds the maximum theoretical value of oxirane oxygen that can be obtained in 100g of oil³².

3.2. Evaluation of the tribological performance of emulsions

The friction coefficients for all developed O/W emulsions are presented in Figure 1 A-E, while Table 7 shows the average coefficient of friction. In Figure 1 A-B, the friction coefficient (COF) features smaller values for emulsions developed with 5% and 10% of epoxidized oil and low concentration of surfactant (1%). While higher surfactant (2.5% and 5%) and epoxidized oil (15%, 20% and 25%) concentrations promote a significant increase in the COF, especially for emulsions with 5% surfactant. However, all emulsions with 5% surfactant presented an increase in COF independent of the epoxidized oil concentration. Probably, the performance of surfactant in the emulsion guarantees its stability because it forms smaller droplets, although its excessive increase competes with the oil on surface adsorption, decreasing the emulsion lubricity³³.

Figure 1
Coefficient of friction of O/W emulsions: (A) 5% epoxidized oil; (B) 10% epoxidized oil (C) 15% epoxidized oil; (D) 20% epoxidized oil; (E) 25% epoxidized oil.

Table 7
Average friction coefficient in the HFRR test.

Emulsion O/W
Epoxidized oil	Surfactant	Average coefficient of friction
5%	1%	0.088
	2.5%	0.091
	5%	0.092
10%	1%	0.089
	2.5%	0.092
	5%	0.097
15%	1%	0.091
	2.5%	0.093
	5%	0.098
20%	1%	0.092
	2.5%	0.094
	5%	0.099
25%	1%	0.096
	2.5%	0.096
	5%	0.102

Figure 2 A-E shows the film formation behavior of O/W emulsions studied during the HFRR test through the ECR (electric contact resistance). The film formation for the emulsion developed with 1% surfactant (figure 2 A-E) shows an efficient film formation, around 95%, and stable throughout the essay, unlike the other concentrations of 2.5% and 5% of surfactant. Probably this behavior can be explained by the surfactant characteristic (anionic), which has a tendency to adsorb on metal surfaces more efficiently, resulting in greater film formation. The functional group of the surfactant establishes a stronger interaction with the metallic surface and, therefore, a stable lubricant film³⁴. It forms a monolayer micelle, which increases the efficiency of the metal cover and can increase the coefficient of friction due to shear strength, known as fluid friction³⁵. Thus, in some cases, as noted in Figure 1B, the behavior of film formation was not directly proportional to the friction coefficient values. Highest values were observed for COF 5% surfactant, which provide better formation.

Figure 2
Film forming of O/W emulsions: (A) 5% epoxidized oil; (B) 10% epoxidized oil (C) 15% epoxidized oil; (D) 20% epoxidized oil; (E) 25% epoxidized oil.

When the concentration of epoxidized oil increases (15%, 20% and 25%), Figure 2 C-D-E, it is observed that the formation of the film was unstable over time, regardless the variation in the concentration of surfactant. In addition, this instability in the formation of the film can be explained by the formation and rupture of the monolayer metal due to friction (reciprocating movement), confirming the highs COF values, as is observed in Figure 1 C-D-E.

In Figure 3, show the results of the wear scar diameter (WSD) for the studied O/W emulsions. All values of WSD, in Figure 3, are in accordance with the European regulations³⁶, less than 460 µm.

Figure 3
Images of the wear scars on the AISI 52100 steel ball. Average scar diameter measured for emulsion with 5%, 10%, 15%, 20% and 25% epoxidized oil varying surfactant (A) 1% surfactant (B) 2.5% surfactant (C) 5% surfactant. Magnification: 100 times.

Analyzing the images WSD in Figure 3, the emulsions with 5%, 10%, 20%,15% and 25% of epoxidized oil showed a slight tendency to increase the WSD in the ball as the surfactant concentration increases (1%, 2.5% and 5%). All emulsions with 1% surfactant concentration presented a minor WSD when compared with the others (2.5% and 5%). The images showed signs of lighter grooves, indicating that wear did not increased, being more uniform, with few apertures. In addition to the lowest WSD, signs of oxidation (dark spots). It is observed that the grooves are more intense on the surface of the ball with the largest concentrations of surfactant (5%). Probably these grooves may have been caused by hard particles, probably oxides, which increases the friction between the surfaces, promoting this wear³⁷.

Another important observation is that an increase in the oil concentration does not promote a significant WSD reduction. Analyzing the Figure 3, at 1% surfactant, when the concentration of epoxidized oil is increased 4 x (5% to 20%) there was a 3% reduction in the value of WSD (225 to 218 µm), which leads to the conclusion that for oil concentration range studied there is a directly trend between WSD and percentage of oil.

4. Conclusion

The present study analyzed the effect of surfactant and epoxidized oil concentration on tribological properties in O/W emulsion development. Based on the results presented above, it is possible to conclude that:

• The physicochemical properties analyzed are suitable for the fluid lubricants.

• The lowest concentration of surfactant (1%) presented lower friction and WSD coefficients in the studied emulsions. Once that the surfactant in the medium stabilized the emulsion, forming smaller droplets.

• The emulsions with 5% surfactant showed higher friction and WSD coefficients values. This occurs because the surfactant competes with the oil on the surface, decreasing the lubricity in the medium.

• The highest concentrations of epoxidized oil showed a slow and unstable film, as well as greater values of the coefficient of friction and WSD.

Therefore, the emulsions that showed the best tribological performance to cutting fluid emulsion were the emulsions with 5% and 10% of epoxidized oil and 1% of surfactant concentration.

5. Acknowledgements

The authors acknowledge the engineers and technicians of the Chemical Technology, NUPEG II, and the Tribology laboratories for their assistance in the present work.

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Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  17 Nov 2017
• Date of issue
  2017

History

• Received
  05 Dec 2016
• Reviewed
  31 Aug 2017
• Accepted
  11 Oct 2017