Performance Evaluation of Vegetable Oil-Based Nano-Cutting Fluids in Environmentally Friendly Machining of Inconel-800 Alloy

Munish Kumar Gupta; Muhammad Jamil; Xiaojuan Wang; Qinghua Song; Zhanqiang Liu; Mozammel Mia; Hussein Hegab; Aqib Mashood Khan; Alberto Garcia Collado; Catalin Iulian Pruncu; G M Shah Imran

doi:10.3390/ma12172792

Performance Evaluation of Vegetable Oil-Based Nano-Cutting Fluids in Environmentally Friendly Machining of Inconel-800 Alloy

Materials (Basel). 2019 Aug 30;12(17):2792. doi: 10.3390/ma12172792.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Key Laboratory of High Efficiency and Clean Mechanical Manufacture, Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250000, China.
² College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing 210016, China.
³ Key Laboratory of High Efficiency and Clean Mechanical Manufacture, Ministry of Education, School of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan 250000, China. ssinghua@sdu.edu.cn.
⁴ National Demonstration Center for Experimental Mechanical Engineering Education, Shandong University, Jinan 250000, China. ssinghua@sdu.edu.cn.
⁵ National Demonstration Center for Experimental Mechanical Engineering Education, Shandong University, Jinan 250000, China.
⁶ Mechanical and Production Engineering, Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology, Dhaka 1208, Bangladesh.
⁷ Mechanical Design and Production Engineering Department, Cairo University, Giza 12163, Egypt.
⁸ Department of Mechanical and Mining Engineering, University of Jaen, EPS de Jaen, Campus Las Lagunillas, 23071 Jaen, Spain.
⁹ Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition Rd., SW7 2AZ London, UK.

Abstract

Recently, the application of nano-cutting fluids has gained much attention in the machining of nickel-based super alloys due their good lubricating/cooling properties including thermal conductivity, viscosity, and tribological characteristics. In this study, a set of turning experiments on new nickel-based alloy i.e., Inconel-800 alloy, was performed to explore the characteristics of different nano-cutting fluids (aluminum oxide (Al₂O₃), molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂), and graphite) under minimum quantity lubrication (MQL) conditions. The performance of each nano-cutting fluid was deliberated in terms of machining characteristics such as surface roughness, cutting forces, and tool wear. Further, the data generated through experiments were statistically examined through Box Cox transformation, normal probability plots, and analysis of variance (ANOVA) tests. Then, an in-depth analysis of each process parameter was conducted through line plots and the results were compared with the existing literature. In the end, the composite desirability approach (CDA) was successfully implemented to determine the ideal machining parameters under different nano-cutting cooling conditions. The results demonstrate that the MoS₂ and graphite-based nanofluids give promising results at high cutting speed values, but the overall performance of graphite-based nanofluids is better in terms of good lubrication and cooling properties. It is worth mentioning that the presence of small quantities of graphite in vegetable oil significantly improves the machining characteristics of Inconel-800 alloy as compared with the two other nanofluids.

Keywords: environmentally friendly; nano-cutting fluids; nickel-based alloys; optimization; turning.

Grants and funding

no. 51875320 Grant No. 2019ZX04001031 Grant No. 2018YFB2002201 Grant No. ZR2019JQ19/National Natural Science Foundation of China (no. 51875320), the Major projects of National Science and Technology (Grant No. 2019ZX04001031), the National Key Research and Development Program (Grant No. 2018YFB2002201), the Natural Science Outstanding Yo