My research is about prediction of thermophysical properties of coconut oil-CuO nanolubricant using previous correlations. Thermophysical properties of coconut oil are required to calculate dynamic vicosity, density, specific heat and thermal conductivity. Could you please help me about density, thermal conductivity and specific heat of pure coconut oil (0%) for temperature of 0-100 °C. Many thanks.
You may need to build your property profile using the constituent fatty acids, which should individually be very well characterized. (From the fda, its 99.1 percent lipids, .3% water.
https://fdc.nal.usda.gov/fdc-app.html#/food-details/171412/nutrients ). That breakdown appears to be about:
Coconut oil is composed of the fatty acids, caprylic acid C -8:0 (8%), capric acid, C-10:0,(7%), lauric acid C-12:0, (49%), myristic acid C-14:0(8%), palmitic acid C-16:0 (8%), stearic acid C-18:0 (2%), oleic acid C-18:1 (6%) and 2% of C-18:2 linoleic acid.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5044790/#:~:text=Coconut%20oil%20is%20composed%20of,%2D18%3A2%20linoleic%20acid.
Dear Nicholas Robert Jankowski,
Thanks for your answer. I need experimental data containing thermophysical properties for coconut oil at 0-100°C.
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