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THE EFFECTS OF LIFE CYCLE MANAGEMENT OF ABRASIVES ON SUSTAINABLE WJ CUTTING

The environmental awareness and rising needs for technologies that spare costs and energy becomes main priority and driving force for competitive production strategy. From the sustainability point of view, cost efficient process nowdays has to be also eco efficient. It is well known that water jet (WJ) technology as one representative technology for cold and high energy concentration process which offers many objectives of multi efficient manufacturing. This work evaluates the aspects of applicability of reused abrasives in WJ cutting process. Effects of reused abrasives in terms of productivity and cut quality are evaluated and discussed within the objective of waste emission reduction. Different conceptual solutions of recycling equipment confirm the importance of life cycle management of abrasives in enabling of green manufacturing.

Abrasive ; water jet ; recycling ; roughness ; surface

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