doi: 10.7763/IJET.2025.V17.1332
Study on the Application of Some Eco-technologies to the Multi-knife Cutting Equipment of a Header
,
Ștefan Velicu
1
,
Cristian Ionel Păunescu
2
- 1 Doctoral School of Industrial Engineering and Robotics, National University of Science and Technology POLITEHNICA Bucharest, Romania
- 2 CESTRIN SA, Bucharest, Romania
- Manuscript received May 2, 2025
- accepted April 7, 2025
- published December 24, 2025
Abstract
This paper presents the application of some eco-technologies to a knife for grassy plants cutting. The aim is to reduce the production and maintenance costs, to protect the environment and to increase the equipment sustainability. The complex machining of the work equipment components using technologies with strong polluting gas emissions (smoke, alkaline vapors, oils loaded with metals, metal dust etc.) entailed studying their replacement with sustainable technologies of nitriding hardening. These sustainable technologies-more environmentally friendly-involve making capillaries on the working surfaces that allow maintaining a wet friction. Experimental investigations after using these eco-technologies proved the positive influence of the cutting equipment behavior during work. They also made possible the optimization of work parameters.
Keywords
- Eco-technologies
- capillary zone
- layer hardened by nitriding
- equipment sustainability
How to Cite
Marius Mocanu, Ștefan Velicu, and Cristian Ionel Păunescu, "Study on the Application of Some Eco-technologies to the Multi-knife Cutting Equipment of a Header," International Journal of Engineering and Technology, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 226-230, 2025. https://doi.org/ 10.7763/IJET.2025.V17.1332
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Copyright © 2025 by the authors. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited (CC BY 4.0).