Environmental analysis of the air bending process

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1353, Issue , 2011, Pages 1650-1655

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b Belgium   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Air Bending; CO2PE! Initiative; Energy Consumption; Sustainable Manufacturing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859521609     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3589753     Document Type: Conference Paper

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