Feasibility study of a new approach to removal of paint coatings in remanufacturing

Li, Ming-Zheng ORCID: 0000-0003-0350-3001, Liu, Wei-Wei, Qing, Xiao-Chuan, Yu, Yue, Liu, Li-Hong, Tang, Zi-Jue, Wang, Hai-Jiang, Dong, Ya-Zhou and Zhang, Hong-Chao (2016) Feasibility study of a new approach to removal of paint coatings in remanufacturing. JOURNAL OF MATERIALS PROCESSING TECHNOLOGY, 234. pp. 102-112.

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Abstract

Environmental issues are recognised as being increasingly important, especially in the 21st century; researchers have thus proposed remanufacturing as a means of improving manufacturing sustainability. Cleaning the end-of-life products, that saves commercial values, is one of the most demanding steps and is usually one of the most polluting stages. Product surface coatings, are especially difficult to remove, in this process, because they have been designed to be robust during the service. Traditional methods, aqueous cleaning for instance, are either water consuming or use large amounts of chemical cleaning agents, which are obviously environmentally unfriendly. In this paper, a new approach to removing the paint layers on the surface of the retired product is proposed. The cleaning uses supercritical carbon dioxide (SCCO2) as the pre-treatment, and then wet shot blasting cleaning removes the residues on the treated surfaces. It is difficult to get paint layers in the same condition and the real products are too big for the experimental platform. Experiments were thus carried out using metallic paint sprayed on the steel, with uniform dimensions, mimicking the real paint coatings on the products. The mechanism of SCCO2 treatment was first analysed and specimens treated in different conditions were illustrated. Single-particle shot experiments were afterwards carried out to determine the proper cleaning parameter. The eventual cleaning results using wet shot blasting demonstrated that theoretical analysis was appropriate in this SCCO2 treatment. The resultant cleaning, by use of these two methods, showed satisfactory removal results.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Remanufacturing cleaning, Supercritical CO2, Paint coatings, Wet shot blasting
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	22 Aug 2017 08:44
Last Modified:	19 Jan 2023 06:57
DOI:	10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2016.03.014
Related URLs:	Author Publisher
URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3009055