A State of Art on the Use of Sustainable Cutting Fluids in Machining Hard to Cut Materials
摘要
In today’s industrial requirements, materials like iron, titanium, and aluminum alloys undergo machining operations to achieve fast production for economic demands. Operators require to maintain the optimum temperature of the workpiece to avoid tool damage in order to achieve rapid production. The methods used in the industry to cool the material include flood cooling, water jet sprays, and cutting fluids. Conventional mineral-oil-based cutting fluids are detrimental to the environment and harmful to operators. Therefore, environmentally safe cutting fluids are inevitable. This review focuses on previous works done on the machining of Ti-6Al-4V, EN-24 steel, AISI 304 steel, and other hard-to-cut materials using traditional and nanoparticle-enriched cutting fluids. According to the results, the best way to enhance machining performance is to suspend copper oxide (CuO) nanoparticles in environmentally sustainable fluids. Results showed that alumina is more suitable in hybrid nanofluids for optimal machining performance. Oils such as mango seed and tomato seed oils can be used in place of mineral oils to enhance machining performance and reduce the effects of pollution that mineral oils cause to the environment.