Assessment of energy consumption in injection moulding process

Leveraging Technology for a Sustainable World - Proceedings of the 19th CIRP Conference on Life Cycle Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 263-268

  Ribeiro, Inês ^a   Peças, Paulo ^a   Henriques, Elsa ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Energy consumption; Injection moulding

Indexed keywords

ENERGY CONSERVATION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; LIFE CYCLE; PLASTIC PARTS;

CRITICAL COMPONENT; EFFICIENCY IMPROVEMENT; EMPIRICAL RELATIONS; EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEWS; PROCESS CONDITION; PRODUCT MANUFACTURING; SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGIES;

INJECTION MOLDING;

EID: 84874224951     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-29069-5_45     Document Type: Conference Paper

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