Green Manufacturing Processes and Systems

ISBN-13: 9783642337918 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 126 str.

Jo O. Paulo Davim

Opis

Thisbook provides the recent advances on green manufacturing processes and systems for modern industry. Chapter 1 provides information on sustainable manufacturing through environmentally-friendly machining. Chapter 2 is dedicated to environmentally-friendly machining: vegetable based cutting fluids. Chapter 3 describes environmental-friendly joining of tubes. Chapter 4 contains information on concepts, methods and strategies for zero-waste in manufacturing. Finally, chapter 5 is dedicated to theapplication of hybrid MCDM approach for selecting the best tyre recycling process.This book serves as a research book for students at final undergraduate engineering course or at postgraduate level. It is a reference for professionals in industriesrelated tomanufacturing and new green jobs (green products, renewable energy, green services and environmental conservation).

Spis treści

Preface.- Sustainable manufacturing through environmentally-friendly machining.- Environmentally friendly machining: vegetable based cutting fluids.- Environmental-friendly joining of tubes.- Concepts, methods and strategies for zero-waste in manufacturing.- Application of hybrid MCDM approach for selecting the best tyre recycling process.

O autorze

J. Paulo Davim received his PhD degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Porto in 1997 and the Aggregation from the University of Coimbra in 2005. Currently, he is an Aggregate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the University of Aveiro and the Head of MACTRIB - Machining and Tribology Research Group http://www2.mec.ua.pt/machining . He has more 24 years of teaching and research experience in manufacturing, materials and mechanical engineering with special emphasis in Machining & Tribology. He is the Editor in Chief of six international journals, Guest Editor of journals, books Editor, book Series Editor and Scientific Advisory for many international journals and conferences. Presently, he is an Editorial Board member of 15 international journals and acts as reviewer for than 50 prestigious ISI web Science journals. In addition, he has also published as author and co-author more than 30 book chapters and 300 articles in journals and conferences (more 150 articles in ISI Web Science, h-index 17).