Green tribology for the sustainable engineering of the future

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

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.

• Language: English
• Keywords: green lubrication, DLC coatings, low SAPS oils, biodegradable oils, nanoparticles, boundary slip, ionic liquids, water lubrication
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FS - Faculty of Mechanical Engineering
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2019
• Number of pages: Str. 709-727
• Numbering: Vol. 65, no. 11/12
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-113743
• UDC: 539.92:502.12(045)
• ISSN on article: 0039-2480
• DOI: 10.5545/sv-jme.2019.6406
• COBISS.SI-ID: 16945179
• Publication date in RUL: 30.01.2020

KALIN, Mitjan, POLAJNAR, Marko, KUS, Maja and MAJDIČ, Franc, 2019, Green tribology for the sustainable engineering of the future. Strojniški vestnik [online]. 2019. Vol. 65, no. 11/12, p. 709–727. [Accessed 18 April 2025]. DOI 10.5545/sv-jme.2019.6406. Retrieved from: https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=113743

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Strojniški vestnik
• Shortened title: Stroj. vestn.
• Publisher: Zveza strojnih inženirjev in tehnikov Slovenije [etc.], = Association of Mechanical Engineers and Technicians of Slovenia [etc.
• ISSN: 0039-2480
• COBISS.SI-ID: 762116

Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Okolju prilagojena "zelena" tribologija za trajnostno inženirstvo prihodnosti
• Keywords: zeleno mazanje, DLC prevleke, biološko razgradljiva olja, olja z nizkim deležem SAPS aditivov, nanodelci, mejni zdrs, ionske tekočine, vodno mazanje

Projects

• Funder: ARRS - Slovenian Research Agency
• Funding programme: Programska skupina
• Project number: P2-0231
• Name: Tribologija