Viscosity and Thermal conductivity studies on developed vegetable oil-in-water emulsions for metal working purposes

The cutting fluid used in industries are predominantly petroleum based synthetic or semisynthetic fluids. The drawbacks associated with the petroleum based metal working fluid are the disposal techniques along with operator health hazards. This work aims at preparing and testing metal working fluid from emulsions of vegetable oil which can be an alternative for the petroleum based cutting fluids. The prepared cutting fluid are evaluated for some of its thermophysical properties. The results from the testing gives an insight into the variation of the thermophysical properties with respect to various parameters.