Tribological performance of TiN coatings deposited on 304L stainless steel used for olive-oil extraction

Titanium-nitride (TiN) coatings have been developed and used by industry in numerous tribological applications, including machining, manufacturing and transportation. However, they have not attracted any attention as a tribological coating to be used in olive-oil extraction devices. In fact, since the separation of vegetation water and solid phase of the olive is always made in a continuous process and in very short time, the wear damage of the...