The importance of proper filtration
Suspended metallic particles degrade cutting oil and cause performance, tooling and quality problems. With the right filtration, direct operating costs can be reduced by up to 30%.
Proper filtration of cutting oils or emulsions is a factor that offers great potential for improvement in machining processes. Just as great effort is dedicated to defining the type of cutting fluid, maintaining its properties in optimal condition for as long as possible is of great importance.
With this purpose, filtration helps improve the productivity and efficiency of each machining application while reducing costs and waste — all primary objectives of any competitive company.
The content of suspended metallic particles in cutting oils causes the loss of their chemical properties of acidity and viscosity. With oil in poor condition, substantial problems arise in tool and machine performance, increasing the number of parts rejected by quality controls and drastically increasing the consumption of oil, grinding wheels and tools.
One of the most visible effects is the loading of grinding wheels, especially diamond or CBN wheels, and their premature degradation. In addition, larger particles can act as abrasives on the surface of workpieces, generating surface defects and increasing maintenance costs and tasks.
Proper filtration of these particles has been considered for years as the best option to guarantee optimal quality of cutting oils or emulsions. Filter selection is a delicate and highly important task for the final result of the process, and there are filters with technologies designed to achieve the ideal filtration quality for each application.
With the various filtration systems that KENFILT can propose, considerable improvement results have been observed in tool life for the most demanding processes, such as deep-hole drills, reamers, honing machines, etc. Grinding wheel consumption for grinding applications has also decreased significantly.
Data confirms that direct operating costs can be reduced by up to 30%.
In short, filtration has become one of the processes studied in most detail when launching new machining projects. With a thorough study of each application and precise engineering, KENFILT develops filters capable of enhancing the most demanding production processes, with a direct impact on productivity and profits in the metallurgical industry.