Special Issue "Sustainable and Advanced Remanufacturing Processes"

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2021.

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Chander Prakash
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Department of Industrial Engineering, School of Mechanical Engineering, Lovely Professional University, Punjab 144411, India
Interests: biomaterials; sustainable manufacturing; surface engineering
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Dr. Sunpreet Singh
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077, Singapore
Interests: additive manufacturing; sustainable manufacturing; implants
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Dr. Alokesh Pramanik
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia
Interests: manufacturing science; surface engineering
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Prof. Dr. Hongyu Zheng
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, 255000 Shandong, China
Interests: laser materials processing; micro/nano processing; surface texturing; sustainbale manufacturing
Prof. Dr. Yongling (Linda) Wu
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Department of Mechanical Engineering, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo, 255000, Shandong China
Interests: surface engineering; nanomaterials; sustainbale materials; advanced manufacturing

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The increasing demand for advanced manufacturing processes for function is making an impact on the Earth’s resources, and its industrial practices are producing negative impacts on the environment, such as carbon footprints, energy resources, waste, etc. The trend of advanced manufacturing coincides with the acceleration of innovations in sustainable techniques. Sustainable development is a globally recognized mandate and it includes green or environment-friendly manufacturing practices. Sustainability also depends upon the 6 Rs of materials (reuse, recycle, redesign, remanufacture, reduce, recover) and manufacturing processes can play an important role in maintaining a homeostasis-balanced environment.

The scope of the proposed Special Issue includes sustainable and advanced manufacturing processes. We welcome high quality research papers presenting new trends in the study of manufacturing processes and materials with a sustainable approach. The Guest Editors (GEs) welcome literature reviews, research papers, and case studies that include but are not restricted to the following areas:

  • Assessing affordability-based design methodologies that consider environmental factors for advanced manufacturing
  • Implementing design for remanufacturing, recycling, and recovery
  • Methods for assessing sustainability in manufacturing (e.g., life cycle assessment, material flow analysis, carbon footprint of manufacturing processes) and their impact on plant performance
  • Focusing exclusively on sustainable materials, the 6 Rs, lifecycle engineering, and life cycle assessment
  • Highlighting issues related to materials recovery, and circular economy, keeping in mind IR 4.0
  • Materials/energy/resource utilisation factors, waste minimisation/management
  • Use of new sustainable materials in processes (e.g., bio-lubricants) and their impact on environment and plant performance
  • Case studies and comparison of manufacturing processes based on their sustainability
  • Implementing real-time energy efficiency assessment of components and systems
  • Optimizing the design and advanced manufacturing processes for optimizing energy and material efficiency
  • Optimizing process technologies for transforming scrap into reusable raw materials
  • Optimizing process planning and process scheduling for advanced manufacturing, especially in the context of low fossil-carbon and sustainability dimensions
  • Optimizing manufacturing systems under multiple sustainability criteria, such as economic feasibility, fossil-carbon emissions, and energy consumption
  • Monitoring and reducing the fossil-carbon energy footprints in advanced manufacturing process planning and production scheduling
  • Cleaner production using different cooling-lubrication conditions
  • Additive manufacturing/3D Printing towards zero waste manufacturing
  • Eco-friendly machining

Dr. Chander Prakash
Dr. Sunpreet Singh
Prof. Dr. Seeram Ramakrishna
Dr. Alokesh Pramanik
Prof. Dr. Hongyu Zheng
Prof. Dr. Yongling (Linda) Wu
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Keywords

  • Advanced Sustainable Manufacturing
  • Re-manufacturing
  • Life Cycle Assement
  • recycling
  • fossil-carbon emissions
  • energy consumption
  • waste management
  • Eco-friendly machining

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Environmental, Economical and Technological Analysis of MQL-Assisted Machining of Al-Mg-Zr Alloy Using PCD Tool
Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7321; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137321 - 30 Jun 2021
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Clean technological machining operations can improve traditional methods’ environmental, economic, and technical viability, resulting in sustainability, compatibility, and human-centered machining. This, this work focuses on sustainable machining of Al-Mg-Zr alloy with minimum quantity lubricant (MQL)-assisted machining using a polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tool. The [...] Read more.
Clean technological machining operations can improve traditional methods’ environmental, economic, and technical viability, resulting in sustainability, compatibility, and human-centered machining. This, this work focuses on sustainable machining of Al-Mg-Zr alloy with minimum quantity lubricant (MQL)-assisted machining using a polycrystalline diamond (PCD) tool. The effect of various process parameters on the surface roughness and cutting temperature were analyzed. The Taguchi L25 orthogonal array-based experimental design has been utilized. Experiments have been carried out in the MQL environment, and pressure was maintained at 8 bar. The multiple responses were optimized using desirability function analysis (DFA). Analysis of variance (ANOVA) shows that cutting speed and depth of cut are the most prominent factors for surface roughness and cutting temperature. Therefore, the DFA suggested that, to attain reasonable response values, a lower to moderate value of depth of cut, cutting speed and feed rate are appreciable. An artificial neural network (ANN) model with four different learning algorithms was used to predict the surface roughness and temperature. Apart from this, to address the sustainability aspect, life cycle assessment (LCA) of MQL-assisted and dry machining has been carried out. Energy consumption, CO2 emissions, and processing time have been determined for MQL-assisted and dry machining. The results showed that MQL-machining required a very nominal amount of cutting fluid, which produced a smaller carbon footprint. Moreover, very little energy consumption is required in MQL-machining to achieve high material removal and very low tool change. Full article
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Cloud Manufacturing, Internet of Things-Assisted Manufacturing and 3D Printing Technology: Reliable Tools for Sustainable Construction
Sustainability 2021, 13(13), 7327; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13137327 - 30 Jun 2021
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The United Nations (UN) 2030 agenda on sustainable development goals (SDGs) encourages us to implement sustainable infrastructure and services for confronting challenges such as large energy consumption, solid waste generation, depletion of water resources and emission of greenhouse gases in the construction industry. [...] Read more.
The United Nations (UN) 2030 agenda on sustainable development goals (SDGs) encourages us to implement sustainable infrastructure and services for confronting challenges such as large energy consumption, solid waste generation, depletion of water resources and emission of greenhouse gases in the construction industry. Therefore, to overcome challenges and establishing sustainable construction, there is a requirement to integrate information technology with innovative manufacturing processes and materials science. Moreover, the wide implementation of three-dimensional printing (3DP) technology in constructing monuments, artistic objects, and residential buildings has gained attention. The integration of the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud manufacturing (CM), and 3DP allows us to digitalize the construction for providing reliable and digitalized features to the users. In this review article, we discuss the opportunities and challenges of implementing the IoT, CM, and 3D printing (3DP) technologies in building constructions for achieving sustainability. The recent convergence research of cloud development and 3D printing (3DP) are being explored in the article by categorizing them into multiple sections including 3D printing resource access technology, 3D printing cloud platform (3D–PCP) service architectures, 3D printing service optimized configuration technology, 3D printing service evaluation technology, and 3D service control and monitoring technology. This paper also examines and analyzes the limitations of existing research and, moreover, the article provides key recommendations such as automation with robotics, predictive analytics in 3DP, eco-friendly 3DP, and 5G technology-based IoT-based CM for future enhancements. Full article
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Bibliometric Analysis of Specific Energy Consumption (SEC) in Machining Operations: A Sustainable Response
Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5617; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13105617 - 18 May 2021
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This paper’s persistence is to make an inclusive analysis of 268 documents about specific energy consumption (SEC) in machining operations from 2001 to 2020 in the Scopus database. A systematic approach collects information on SEC documents’ primary data; their types, publications, citations, and [...] Read more.
This paper’s persistence is to make an inclusive analysis of 268 documents about specific energy consumption (SEC) in machining operations from 2001 to 2020 in the Scopus database. A systematic approach collects information on SEC documents’ primary data; their types, publications, citations, and predictions are presented. The VOSviewer 1.1.16 and Biblioshiny 2.0 software are used for visualization analysis to show the progress standing of SEC publications. The selection criteria of documents are set for citation analysis. The ranks are assigned to the most prolific and dominant authors, sources, articles, countries, and organizations based on the total citations, number of documents, average total citation, and total link strength. The author-keywords, index-keywords, and text data content analysis has been conducted to find the hotspots and progress trend in SEC in machining operations. The most prolific and dominant article, source, author, organization, and country are Anderson et al. “Laser-assisted machining of Inconel 718 with an economic analysis”, the Int J Mach Tools Manuf, Shin Y.C., form Purdue University Singapore, and United States, respectively, based on total citations as per defined criteria. The author keywords “specific cutting energy” and “surface roughness” dominate the machining operations SEC. SEC’s implication in machining operations review and bibliometric analysis is to deliver an inclusive perception for the scholars working in this field. It is the primary paper that utilizes bibliometric research to analyze the SEC in machining operations publications expansively. It is valuable for scholars to grasp the hotspots in this field in time and help the researchers in the SEC exploration arena rapidly comprehend the expansion status and trend. Full article
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