EFFECTIVENESS OF CRYOGENIC MACHINING WITH MODIFIED

TOOL HOLDER

ABSTRACT

Environmental pollution, inconveniences and health hazards due to
conventional application of cutting fluids essentially required for cooling and
lubrication have been a great concern of the industries and the modern societies.
Further they are also ineffective in controlling the high cutting temperature and
rapid tool wear. One of the possible and potential techniques to overcome such
problem is application of cryogenic cooling particularly by liquid nitrogen
specially where the cutting temperature is a major constraint in achieving high
productivity and job quality. The present study involves two processes;
modification of the tool holder for use with cryogenic cooling system, and
implementation of the new design and testing its effect on tool life and product
quality. Two different flow outlets were tested for this modified tool holder. It is
found that this modified tool holder for cryogenic cooling is more effective
when the coolant out flow is directed away from the cutting edge of the carbide
insert. The new modification resulted in the use of smaller amount of nitrogen,
higher cutting speeds at heavy depth of cuts and better surface finish. The effect
of cryogenic cooling was not pronounced at low speed, small feed and depth of
cut.