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An Evaluation of the Colloidal Stability of Metalworking Fluid

Rajagopalan, Nandakishore; Menniti, Adrienne; Kramer, Timothy A.; Clark, Mark M.

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Title
An Evaluation of the Colloidal Stability of Metalworking Fluid
Author(s)
  • Rajagopalan, Nandakishore
  • Menniti, Adrienne
  • Kramer, Timothy A.
  • Clark, Mark M.
Issue Date
2005
Keyword(s)
Metalworking fluids -- Recycling
Abstract
Metalworking fluids are used for cooling, lubrication, and corrosion control in the metal products industry. As of the mid-2000s, many manufacturers were using filtration or centrifugal systems to remove impurities from metalworking fluids to recycle used fluid back into their production line.

Knowing the quality of the metalworking fluid in the recycling system is important for maintaining the machining tools and eliminating metal chips and shavings. Measuring turbidity to calculate the stability of the metalworking fluid is a fast and easy experiment; however, does that test accurately depict the status of the metalworking fluid system?

ISTC’s Kishore Rajagopalan and colleagues from the University of Illinois and Texas A&M University experimentally tested three different turbidity methods to see if the models accurately described the true stability of the metalworking fluids.
Publisher
Champaign, IL : Illinois Sustainable Technology Center
Series/Report Name or Number
Pollutants -- Metalworking Fluids
Type of Resource
other
Language
en
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