Industrial Application of the MCG (Minimum Coolant Grinding) Technology

The use of fluids in grinding is necessary to carry out an optimized process that avoids any kind of damage in the ground workpieces. However, the use of fluids in machining processes presents some problems as the economic one and the environmental one. The present work analyzes the industrial viability of a new solution to avoid the use of fluids in grinding, the MCG system. This system combines the use of a MQL (Minimum Quantity Lubricant) commercial system and a gas supplied at low temperatures. In this case the grinding of a component of the engine of a competition motorcycle with the MCG (Minimum Coolant Grinding) system is compared with the classic fluid flow system.