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Performance And Life Cycle Analysis Of Soybean Oil-Based Minimum Quantity Lubrication In Machining Of Ti6Al4V

Document Type

Conference

Keywords

Carbon footprint, Machining, MQL, Ti6Al4V

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering

First Page

671

Last Page

678

Abstract

Titanium alloys are used in various applications due to their properties. However, these alloys are difficult to machine. Several techniques have been proposed in the literature to deal with the problem. This paper presents a study on the performance and life cycle analysis of the dry machining, flood lubrication and minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) of titanium alloy, Ti6Al4V. Machining was carried out at different speeds 30, 55 and 80 m/min. Soybean-based fluid was used in both flood lubrication and MQL. Cutting forces, tool wear and surface roughness were measured in all three cases. MQL was found to have better performance with longer tool life by almost two times, cutting forces by about 18% and surface roughness by about 10% compared to dry machining. Flood lubrication results were intermediate between the two. However, flood lubrication had the highest carbon footprint followed by dry machining and MQL.

Department

Department of Technology

Original Publication Date

1-1-2020

DOI of published version

10.1007/978-981-15-1201-8_73

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, Rod Library, University of Northern Iowa

Language

en

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