Papers by Keyword: Mineral Oil

Abstract: The research on the nanofluid as an alternative transformer oil has been widely attracted the concern of many researchers as the effectiveness as insulation and cooling agent of the existing transformer oil is not achieved satisfactory to accommodate the rising demand of high voltage rate. In this study, nanofluid with a nanomaterial, Carbon Nanotube (CNT), with and without Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) has been formulated, and their AC breakdown voltage of the mineral oil (MO) according to IEC 60156 standard has been characterized. The concentration of CNT study is 0.005, 0.01, 0.015 and 0.02 g/L. It is found that the optimum concentration in nanofluids without PVP is 0.005g/L of nanofluids concentration with the highest breakdown voltage 53.52. In comparison, the highest breakdown voltage for nanofluids with PVP is 33.4kV at 0.01g/L. The existence of PVP in the nanofluids seems not significantly affect the dielectric performance of the degradation of the nanofluid from 5% to 43%. Hence, nanofluids with CNT addition are proofed as a good additive in insulation oil for future transformer applications.

Abstract: The erstwhile transformer oil material, for all these periods of more than two centuries, has been championing liquid dielectrics, for machines’ cooling and insulation purposes. However, its use has detrimental and attendant consequences on global terrestrial and aquatic habitats, industries and global warming. Palm oil (Elaise Guinensis Eg; and/or Elaise Oleifera Eo) is presently posing a great challenge to liquid hydrocarbon in the operation of transformers. Despite the ease in availability of mineral oil today, especially for oil producing nations, this paper aims at unveiling its several underscores and analyses of the viscosity, flash point, density, neutralisation (acidic value) number, electrical resistivity, and breakdown voltage (BDV) results of the respective mineral and palm oil samples. Palm oil’s test results values of approximately, 244OC, 55kV and 0.004 mgkOH/gm of oil, was recorded, respectively for the flash point, breakdown voltage (BDV) and acid neutralisation index, as compared with corresponding mineral oil’s values of 142OC, 59kV and 0.004 mgkOH/gm. The results obtained favoured the use of palm oil than the mineral oil for transformer’s operation.

Abstract: For the most part, Surface tension is relying upon the force adjusted on a drop that is pending or hanging and inevitably is disengaged. Surfaces of fluids normally covered with what goes about as a tiny film. In spite of the fact that this evident film has little quality, it nevertheless acts like a thin membrane and resists being broken. This accepted to be the reason for the attractive forces between the atoms inside a given framework. All atoms are pulled in one to the next in extent to the result of their masses and conversely as the squares of the separation between them. Surface tension for both mineral and oil crude systems is investigated and the value was recorded. In addition, this value for mineral oil system showed higher value than foamy crude oil system, whereas foamy oil saturated methane crude oil system showed lower value than foamy oil saturated methane mineral oil. Surface tension in its general form is believed to have a significant feature in reservoir engineering calculations as well as in further studies related to improved oil production and in designing enhanced oil recovery plans. Moreover, CH₄, C₂H₆ and CO₂ oil systems investigated for the initial production, drawdown experiments. After the investigation, the behaviour is identical for almost one-day and two-days.

Abstract: The world’s energy requirement has been dominated by petroleum oil resources for years in many applications, especially in the area of electricity generation and utilization. Mineral oil application in power system equipment can be potentially hazardous to the environment, especially when there are incidents of transformer explosion, which caused spillages of oil to the soils or water streams and thereby pollute the surrounding environments. This paper is aimed at finding a substitute for the use of mineral oil as transformer oil. Experiments on breakdown voltages, flash points, pour points, viscosities, densities and insulation resistances on conventional mineral oil and some selected vegetable oils were conducted, analyzed and compared to the internationally accepted standards, ASTM (America Standard Test of Material). Rubber seed oil, Palm oil, Mellon oil, Ground oil and Palm kernel oil were found to have good electrical, chemical and thermal properties which the transformer oil has.

Abstract: Tribology deals with friction, wear and lubricants. It plays an important role in mechanical field. It finds its major application in industrial and automotive sector, in which this thesis considered the tribology in metal removal industrial sector. In that application, the role of cutting fluid in lathe machining operations have been chosen. One of the most important challenging cases is to minimize the friction in machining of titanium alloys. While machining, the heat should be minimized as low as possible. This thesis deals with the study of cutting fluids in machining of titanium alloys. The problem occurs while using mineral oil as a cutting fluid in machining that it is non-biodegradable in nature and affects the environment while disposing it. This thesis aims to identify the alternate cutting fluids instead of mineral oil, which is to be effective cooling and non-toxic to environment. For that, Machining condition should be controllable by using some grammar rule without affecting the Productivity.

Abstract: This paper investigates the reliability and performance of a refrigeration system using nanolubricant with 1, 1, 1, 2-Tetrafluoroethane (HFC-134a) refrigerant. Mineral Oil (MO) is mixed with nanoparticles such as Titanium Dioxide (TiO₂) and Aluminium Oxide (Al₂O₃). These mixtures were used as the lubricant instead of Polyolester (POE) oil in the HFC-134a refrigeration system as HFC-134a does not compatible with raw mineral oil. An investigation was done on compatibility of mineral oil and nanoparticles mixture at 0.1 and 0.2 grams / litre with HFC-134a refrigerant. To carry out this investigation, an experimental setup was designed and fabricated in the lab. The refrigeration system performance with the nanolubricant was investigated by using energy consumption test. The results indicate that HFC-134a and mineral oil with above mentioned nanoparticles works normally and safely in the refrigeration system. The refrigeration system performance was better than the HFC-134a and POE oil system. Thus nanolubricant (Mixture of Mineral Oil (MO) and nanoParticles) can be used in refrigeration system to considerably reduce energy consumption and better Coefficient of Performance (COP).

Abstract: Quench hardening is a process where an alloy is heated to solutionizing temperature and held for a definite period, and then rapidly cooled in a quenching medium. Selection of quenchant that can yield desired properties is essential as it governs heat extraction process during quenching. In the present work, the cooling performance of vegetable oil and mineral-vegetable oil blend quench media was assessed. The vegetable oils used in this work were olive oil, canola oil and rice bran oil. The mineral-vegetable oil blends were prepared by blending 10 and 20 vol. % of rice bran and canola oil in mineral oil. Inconel probe of 12.5mm diameter and 60mm height, instrumented with thermocouples were used to characterize quenchants. The probe was heated to 850°C and quenched in the oil medium. The cooling curves at different locations in the probe were used to study wetting kinematics. Inverse modelling technique was used to estimate spatially dependent metal-quenchant interfacial heat flux. It was found that the vegetable oils exhibited very short vapour blanket stage compared to mineral oil and blends. Faster wetting kinematics obtained with blends resulted in uniform heat transfer compared to that of mineral oil. The temperature distribution in the probe quenched in vegetable oils and blends was more uniform compared to that in mineral oil. It is expected that the parts quenched in vegetable oils and blends would lead to better hardness distribution compared to mineral oils.

Abstract: This paper deals with the possibility to replace the mineral oil with water in the hydrostatic units of machine tools. With this aim in view we try to make a technical-economic comparison between the hydrostatic drive that uses mineral oil in the range H38 - H46 and the drive with untreated water. Two simple units were taken for comparison, in principle, which use as hydraulic energy source one constant flow pump (q_P = 4 cm³) for the actuation of two consumers and one constant flow pump (q_P = 20 cm³) for making the hydrostatic suspension of the saddle of an AFP type machine.

Abstract: Rear frame is an important component of underground transport vehicle, used to carry different functional devices. This paper took rear frame as a research object. First of all, software Proe was used to set up geometrical model; secondly, software ANSYS was used to establish a FEM model to grid and set boundary conditions, and then analyzed rear frame stress and strain in working speed. The results showed that the deformation of rear frame is very small, meets the design requirements; the maximum stress of rear frame is far less than the allowable stress, which meets the strength requirements. It provides important theoretical basis for rear frame’s design.

Abstract: Different kinds of three-dimensional fluorescence spectra of oils have a large degree of overlap. The tradition based on the apparent characteristics of statistical features can only reflect the general characteristics of three-dimensional fluorescence spectra of simple components, or a single fluorescence peak sample differential case is practical, to complex water environment pollution in mineral oil identification has great limitations. The paper use independent component analysis(ICA) algorithm for mineral oil spectral compression dimensionality reduction, feature extraction, extraction of more deep, more elaborate characteristic parameters, and the concentration of information together with the physical significance of the oil pollution of three-dimensional fluorescence spectra characteristic sequence or vector. The mapping relation was obtained by the WNN between the singular value eigenvector and the species of the mineral oil. The WNN realized the recognition of the different kinds of mineral oil. The experiment result indicates that the right of the distinguish rate is 90%.