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The use of alternative coolant techniques to reduce the environmental impact in the use of water in through-feed centreless grinding

The use of alternative coolant techniques to reduce the environmental impact in the use of water... Grinding processes provide the best surface finishing amongst all manufacturing processes. The surface roughness in grinding, for example, is almost five times better than in turning. However, all grinding processes need a great amount of water to be mixed with the oil and produce the emulsion, where the proportion is 6% of oil and 94% of water. Furthermore, grinding processes such as through-feed centreless grinding demand a great coolant flow rate to maintain the high quality of workpieces. In this work, a shop floor study was carried out with the objective of reducing the use of flow rate and maintaining the quality of workpieces. Surface roughness was considered as the main response to define the quality of product. Two alternative systems using a minimal quantity of lubrication (MQL) system and directional device system (DDS) were applied to through-feed centreless grinding. The MQL system was not efficient in maintaining the quality of the workpieces and does not provide good cleaning in the grinding gap. However, the isolated use of DDS system maintained the surface roughness pattern and decreased the flow rate about 10 times. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology Springer Journals

The use of alternative coolant techniques to reduce the environmental impact in the use of water in through-feed centreless grinding

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Springer Journals
Copyright
Copyright © 2017 by Springer-Verlag London
Subject
Engineering; Industrial and Production Engineering; Media Management; Mechanical Engineering; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design
ISSN
0268-3768
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1433-3015
DOI
10.1007/s00170-017-0030-x
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Abstract

Grinding processes provide the best surface finishing amongst all manufacturing processes. The surface roughness in grinding, for example, is almost five times better than in turning. However, all grinding processes need a great amount of water to be mixed with the oil and produce the emulsion, where the proportion is 6% of oil and 94% of water. Furthermore, grinding processes such as through-feed centreless grinding demand a great coolant flow rate to maintain the high quality of workpieces. In this work, a shop floor study was carried out with the objective of reducing the use of flow rate and maintaining the quality of workpieces. Surface roughness was considered as the main response to define the quality of product. Two alternative systems using a minimal quantity of lubrication (MQL) system and directional device system (DDS) were applied to through-feed centreless grinding. The MQL system was not efficient in maintaining the quality of the workpieces and does not provide good cleaning in the grinding gap. However, the isolated use of DDS system maintained the surface roughness pattern and decreased the flow rate about 10 times.

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The International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology – Springer Journals

Published: Jan 23, 2017

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