SOME REGULARITIES OF THE HEAT TRANSFER IN THE PROCESS OF COOLING OF A CUTTING ZONE BY AN EMULSION FOG
E. É. Fel'dshtein and R. Maruda UDC 621.9 The dependence of the average diameter of the drops of an emulsion and their number in a unit volume on the conditions of emulsion-fog generation has been investigated. An individual drop is heated, when it comes into contact with a heated surface, to the boiling and evaporation temperatures. Under certain conditions, the total time of heating and evaporation of all drops making contact with a surface for 1 sec can be smaller than this time. In this case, active substances entering into the composition of the emulsion form a solid lubrication film on the surfaces of a piece, a chip, and a cutting tool. More than 50% of the total heat released can be removed due to the boiling and evaporation of emulsion drops from the cutting zone. Zielona Gora University, 50 Podgorna Str., Zielona Gora, 6S-246, Poland; email: e.feldsztein@ibem.uz.zgora.pl. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 3, pp. 179-182, May-June, 2006. Original article submitted December 21, 2004; revision submitted May 4, 2005.