Development of Integrated Criterion to Select Environmentally Sound Cutting Fluids and Relevant Application Systems in Shape-Forming Processes

摘要

The article covers the building of an integrated criterion to select environmentally sound cutting fluids to take into account a number of parameters (process, environmental and economic ones) and their values. While building the integrated criterion, more focus was put on the parameters indicating how cutting fluids affect the environment and human beings. The integrated criterion is a set of parameters and characteristics of cutting fluids (CFs) and relevant application systems, which varies in line with the significance that we can assess for such parameters. Our method to build the integrated criterion is a kind of weighted criteria method. The article gives an example how to build the integrated criterion to select environmentally sound cutting fluids for such applications as automatic lathes and semi-automatic machines that are used to manufacture load distributors. Below we show the selection steps and the outcomes.