Green Manufacturing Processes and Systems [Paperback]

This?book 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 the?application 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 industries?related to?manufacturing and new green jobs (green products, renewable energy, green services and environmental conservation).

This volume fulfills a pressing need in both academia and industry to follow the latest innovations in sustainable manufacturing. The contents cover a host of topics, from environmentally friendly machining techniques to developments in zero-waste production.

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.

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 experienlc)