The purpose of this study was to evaluate grinding efficiency in abutment teeth comprising both dentin and core composite resin in the axial plane. Grinding was performed over 5 runs at two loads (0.5 or 0.25 N) and two feed rates (1 or 2 mm/sec). The grinding surface was observed with a 3-D laser microscope. Tomographic images of the grinding surfaces captured perpendicular to the feed directi...

The purpose of our study is to investigate the heat distribution and the occurring temperatures during grinding. Therefore, we did both experimental and numerical investigations. In the first part, we present the integration of an infrared thermopile array in a steel workpiece. Experiments are done by acquiring data from the thermopile array during grinding of a groove in a workpiece made of st...

Semi-Autogenous Grinding mills can be optimized for maximum ore throughput or maximum grinding energy efficiency. In both cases, precise control of the mill weight is critical. Model predictive control provides an additional tool to improve the control of Semi-Autogenous Grinding mills and is often able to reduce process variability beyond the best performance that can be obtained with proporti...

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of different sugar beet pulp (SBP) pretreatments on biogas yield from anaerobic digestion. SBP was subjected to grinding, thermal-pressure processing, enzymatic hydrolysis, or combination of these pretreatments. It was observed that grinding of SBP to 2.5-mm particles resulted in the cumulative biogas productivity of 617.2 mL/g volatile so...

An effective, robust, and inexpensive grinding device for the grinding of herb samples like bark and roots was developed by rebuilding a commercially available coffee grinder. The grinder was constructed to be able to provide various particle sizes, to be easy to clean, and to have a minimum of dead volume. The recovery of the sample when grinding as little as 50 mg of crude Cinchona bark was a...

INTRODUCTION The manufacturing of complex shaped microstructures on microsystem parts in brittle materials provides a high geometrical accuracy [1]. This requirement can only be met by using microgrinding processes. There, metal bonded diamond grinding tools offer a remarkable potential due to their favorable wear behavior [2]. However, the dressing of complex microprofiles on these tools is no...

In this current era of competitive machinery productions, the industries are designed to place more emphasis on the product quality and reduction of cost whilst abiding by the pollution-preventing policy. In attempting to delve into the concerns, the industries are aware that the effectiveness of existing lubrication systems must be improved to achieve power-efficient and pollutionpreventing ma...

The beneficiation process contains a number of links which are closely related to all aspects of the quality of products in a process which has a direct impact on the next one, thus influencing the product quality of all processes. Grinding operations form a critical stage in the middle position of the beneficiation process and is the most important part. Grinding operations here refers to ore ...

Thermal pretreatment or torrefaction of biomass under anoxic condition can produce an energy dense and consistent quality solid biomass fuel for combustion and co-firing applications. This paper investigates the fuel characteristics and grindability of pine chips and logging residues torrefied at temperatures ranging from 225 °C to 300 °C and 30 min residence time. Grinding performance of torre...

This paper analyses the fracture behavior of the brazed BCBN grain by comparison with brazed PCBN grain through grinding test of Nickel-based superalloy. The self-sharpening effect is created by timing micro-fracture behavior for BCBN abrasive grains, but by macro-fracture behavior for PCBN abrasive grains. During grinding with brazed BCBN abrasive grains, the material is removed together with ...