Research Progress in Manufacturing, Grinding and Polishing of Chemical Machinery

Dear Colleagues,

Chemical Industry is a field of technology that undergoes constant expansion, which requires parts with increasingly sophisticated characteristics for its machinery. The manufacturing of these parts must be improved to meet the demanding requirements in terms of dimensional accuracy, mechanical resistance, corrosion resistance and, most of all, surface roughness. An important factor which requires special attention is the sustainability of the products used in the industry, as well as the reduction in waste products generated in these processes. Therefore, manufacturing processes and especially finishing processes play a crucial role in the development and enhancement of the equipment used as chemical machinery. The recent developments in advanced manufacturing processes like ultrasonic machining, electrodischarge machining and electrochemical machining, as well as in finishing process like grinding, chemical polishing and electropolishing, can contribute to this goal. These processes are especially adequate for the post-processing of parts obtained using additive manufacturing, which produces several parts with complex geometries from diverse materials, and they are quite adequate for all types of machinery, including chemical machinery.

This Special Issue gathers some of these advances and presents them as important contributions to the field of manufacturing applied to chemical machinery and available for many other applications.

Dr. Pablo Rodriguez
Guest Editor

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