Green tribology for the sustainable engineering of the future

Mitjan Kalin (Author), Marko Polajnar (Author), Maja Kus (Author), Franc Majdič (Author)

Abstract

Environmental awareness and especially the legislation that requires the reduction of polluting emissions are strong driving forces toward more sustainable engineering and greener solutions in the design, use and overall life span of machinery. However, providing novel concepts that will exclude non-environmentally adapted, but over many years developed and optimized solutions, is not an easy task. It clearly requires time if the same level of technical performance is to be maintained. Green tribology is one of the fields that has been closely involved in these actives in the past two decades. The research and use of tribology science and technology toward green and sustainable engineering include natural material usage, lower energy consumption, reducing natural oil resources, reducing pollution and emissions, fewer maintenance requirements and thus reduced machinery-investment cycles. This report is not an attempt to cover all the existing concepts, attempts or literature available in the field, but mainly those efforts that our group has been working on over the past 20 years, which mainly includes novel green-lubrication concepts that come from exploring and exploiting surface engineering through the use of diamond-like-carbon (DLC) coatings.

Keywords

green lubrication;DLC coatings;low SAPS oils;biodegradable oils;nanoparticles;boundary slip;ionic liquids;water lubrication;

Data

Language:	English
Year of publishing:	2019
Typology:	1.01 - Original Scientific Article
Organization:	UL FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
UDC:	539.92:502.12(045)
COBISS:	16945179
ISSN:	0039-2480
Parent publication:	Strojniški vestnik
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Secondary language:	Slovenian
Secondary title:	Okolju prilagojena "zelena" tribologija za trajnostno inženirstvo prihodnosti
Secondary keywords:	zeleno mazanje;DLC prevleke;biološko razgradljiva olja;olja z nizkim deležem SAPS aditivov;nanodelci;mejni zdrs;ionske tekočine;vodno mazanje;
Type (COBISS):	Article
Pages:	str. 709-727, SI 90
Volume:	ǂVol. ǂ65
Issue:	ǂno. ǂ11/12
Chronology:	Nov.-Dec. 2019
DOI:	10.5545/sv-jme.2019.6406
ID:	11394025