Vegetable Oil as An Eco-Friendly Cutting Fluid for Different Machining Operation: Review

Abstract

Fluids used in machining are used to enhance the production rates and metal cutting quality. Their use causes a threat to environment and also to the worker’s health. So, there is a need to find environmental friendly substitute to conventional mineral oil for fluid used in metal working. Vegetable oil can be used as a metal working fluid because it has certain advantages like good lubrication performance, renewability and biodegradability. This paper gives the review of performance of different vegetable oils used for machining process of various materials.