relation: https://khub.utp.edu.my/scholars/19220/ title: Tribological Performance Evaluation of Blended Lubricants Incorporated with Organic Polymer creator: Opia, A.C. creator: Bin Abdollah, M.F. creator: Mamah, S.C. creator: Hamid, M.K.A. creator: Audu, I.A. creator: Johnson, C.N. creator: Veza, I. creator: Ahmed, S. description: Eco-friendly lubricants have drawn a lot of interest in the lubrication industry as a way of promoting global sustainability in response to the growing environmental pollution danger posed by the use of petroleum-based lubricants. As a result of these, developing lubricants with organic additives stands as a promising technique in solving the environmental challenges caused by non-degradable materials. This research investigates the effect of bio-based water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes) (EC) carboxylmethyl cellulose (CMC) polymer in different base lubricants as well as under different volumetric blend to determine their compatibility effect on lowering friction and wear using base rapeseed oil (BRO) and mineral oil (MO) as a base lubricant sample. High frequency reciprocating rig tribo-tester machine was used in the experiment, followed by substrate surface analysis via energy dispersive x-ray spectroscopy. The additives were evaluated for their potential to improve tribology in terms of friction, surface roughness and wear reduction, load-carrying capacity, and mechanism of repair. Testing the additive concentrations, produced recommendable result at 0.8 mass EC-CMC. The best performance was obtained when BRO70/MO30 was blended with 0.8 mass EC-CMC. When compared to base BRO and MO lubricants under 80 N, 0.8 mass BRO70/MO30 reduced the coefficient of friction and wear scar diameter by 44, 32, and 33, 21 respectively. However, it was shown that nanoparticles had greater tribological performance at higher working capacities owing to the rapid and active tribo-film formation. Copyright © 2023 Japanese Society of Tribologists date: 2023 type: Article type: PeerReviewed identifier: Opia, A.C. and Bin Abdollah, M.F. and Mamah, S.C. and Hamid, M.K.A. and Audu, I.A. and Johnson, C.N. and Veza, I. and Ahmed, S. (2023) Tribological Performance Evaluation of Blended Lubricants Incorporated with Organic Polymer. Tribology Online, 18 (2). pp. 64-77. relation: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85162913717&doi=10.2474%2ftrol.18.64&partnerID=40&md5=9b4f7e903cda6a2bd0717fad29a38600 relation: 10.2474/trol.18.64 identifier: 10.2474/trol.18.64