Development of SiO₂ nanolubrication system for better surface quality, more power savings and less oil consumption in hard turning of hardened steel AISI4140

In recent years, the energy efficiency improvement has become significant due to rapid consumption of world's energy resources. Particularly in manufacturing industry, hard turning process is one of the most fundamental metal removal processes that require huge power consumption and it could be improved in term of energy usage by many alternatives. At the same time, the improvement in term of machined surface quality is become a need since it would reflect appearance, performance and reliability of the products. As for example in the CNC machining field, one of the solution for this issue is by increasing the effectiveness of the existing lubrication systems as it could improve the machined surface quality, reduce the power required to overcome the friction component in batch production of machining process and reduce the oil consumption. The effectiveness of the lubrication system could be improved by introducing the nano base lubrication system for much less power consumption as the rolling action of billions units of nanoparticle in the tool chip interface could reduce the cutting forces significantly. In this research work, the possibility of using SiO₂ nano base lubrication system is investigated to reduce the machining power consumption as well as improving surface quality in hard turning process of AISI4140.