Horea
Chicinaș
PhD | R&D Engineer | Project Manager
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students and researchers.
students and researchers.
I’m a researcher who is passionate about helping people become more capable and productive.
Research Projects
Short presentation of latest research projects.
Aqueous Hard Metals
2020-2022
The goal of this project is to develop an aqueous route to replace the conventional organic media route for the milling of raw material powders used in the extrusion process of cemented carbides tools, without affecting the final product properties.
The results of the present research are intended to provide necessary knowledge steps to decide upon the feasibility of replacing the expensive, hazardous and environmentally unfriendly organic milling media with water. The use of extrusion as a compaction process will enable the production of round or profiled rods/tubes with larger length/diameter ratio, which is required for the production of drills, reamers or any cutting tools. However, the mixing of the dried powder with the plasticiser reveals particular challenges, which will be studied during this research project.
Innovative eco-friendly process for producing WC-Co type compacts for cutting tools
2019-2020
The purpose of this project is to use an alternative eco-friendly milling media for the development of eco-technologies for the production of advanced materials used in the field of cutting tools. The use of an aqueous milling environment would eliminate the disadvantages generated by the use of organic media. The implementation of such a milling environment involves certain challenges, such as oxidation of constituents during milling. The optimization of such a technology is an application research topic in the field of materials engineering.
Research on the replacement of traditional milling media for the manufacturing of WC-Co tools
2015 - 2018
This study was conducted to determine the feasibility of an aqueous milling process in the production of WC-Co powders for cemented carbides. Employing an aqueous milling process would improve the economic aspects significantly considering the raw materials’ significantly lower price, as well as the reducing the environmental impact as compared to the traditional organic solvent processing routes.