This fact sheet documents the waste reduction measures of a company located in central Illinois that manufactures metal components used in electrical and mechanical support systems. These include conduit, process piping, wiring race ways, and other electrical equipment. The company’s goals were to improve its paint line’s pretreatment cleaning performance and to reduce operating costs. To achie...

This paper presents a set of surfactant-selection guidelines that can be used to design bio-based semi-synthetic metalworking fluid (MWF) microemulsions as a renewable alternative to conventional petroleum formulations. Ten surfactant classes (six anionic and four nonionic) with different head and tail structures and three vegetable base oils (canola oil, soybean oil, and a fatty acid trimethyl...

Metalworking fluids (MWFs) increase productivity and the quality of manufacturing operations by cooling and lubricating during metal forming and cutting processes. Despite their widespread use, they pose significant health and environmental hazards throughout their life cycle. An obvious environmental improvement to MWF technology would be to improve the lifetime of the fluid while utilizing mo...

Improving machining performance and meeting the requirements of sustainable production at same time represents a major challenge for metalworking industry scientific community. One approach to satisfying above is apply different types cutting fluids or optimise their usage during process. The fact that are well known as significant environmental pollutants in has encouraged researchers discover...