Preliminary environmental assessment of Electrical Discharge Machining

Glocalized Solutions for Sustainability in Manufacturing - Proceedings of the 18th CIRP International Conference on Life Cycle Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 377-382

  Kellens, Karel ^a   Renaldi, ^b   Dewulf, Wim ^a,b   Duflou, Joost R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Associatie KULeuven   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM); Energy and resource efficiency

Indexed keywords

ELECTRIC DISCHARGE MACHINING; ELECTRIC DISCHARGES; LIFE CYCLE; MANUFACTURE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

DATA COLLECTION; ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE MACHINING; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINTS; IMPACT ASSESSMENTS; MANUFACTURING PROCESS; PART MANUFACTURING; RESOURCE EFFICIENCIES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

EID: 80052107725     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-19692-8_65     Document Type: Conference Paper

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