correlation between the fatty acid-type and content on lubricity of particular biobased oils.

If this correlation is known, better lubricants can be developed from this information. Unsaturated acids exhibited better lubricity than saturated species. Ethyl esters had improved lubricity compared to methyl esters (Kenesey and Ecker, 2003). Oxidized biodiesel showed improved lubricity, compared to its non-oxidized counterpart (Wain and Perez, 2002). Sarin et al. (2007) pointed that the variation in the lubricating performance of biodiesel could be better linked to its residual acidity than to variation in fatty
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acid composition. It was argued by Fernando et al. (2007) that analyses did not indicate any significant correlation between fatty acid content or degree of saturation and lubricity. However