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Grinding, cutting Inserts Twist drills Whetstones Industrial knives Circuit-board drills Oil-drilling tools Slitter blades Surgical scalpels Saws... 

Physical manipulation Grinding, cutting or milling the sample... 

Many, but certainly not all, physical changes can be reversed. Look for words like boil, freeze, melt, condense, dissolve, break, split, crack, grind, cut, crush, and bend to indicate that a physical change has taken place. 

If the particle size of the biomass fuel or feedstock is not predetermined by its history, as is the case for sawdusts, nutshells, and a few other waste biomass materials, size reduction is usually carried out with one or more units that make up the front end of the total processing system. Many different kinds of machines are employed. Generally, the size of the feed is reduced by grinding, cutting, or impact mechanisms. Not all of the designs are suitable for biomass energy applications because the equipment is customized for certain uses or the cost of size reduction is excessive. Agricultural crops and woody biomass are also usually processed by different types of machines. A brief review of the basic types of machines that are or have been used for biomass follows to illustrate the variety of size-reduction equipment and their biomass applications. 

The following phenomena have been proposed to describe the mechanism of PET glycolysis 14,15 glycol diffusion into the polymer, polymer swelling which increases the diffusion rate, and reaction of the glycol with an ester bond in the chain. Because the reaction rate is proportional to the polymer surface area, it is advisable to first reduce the size of the raw PET waste to small particles by grinding, cutting, etc. 

PET scrap suitable for glycolytic recycle includes production waste, fibers, film, flake, and bottles. In a practical system, major contaminants are separated from feedstocks, e.g., bottle waste is cleaned and separated from a polyethylene base, paper labels, metallic caps, and liners. For many end uses, colored PET must also be segregated. (Highly modified copolymers, glass-reinforced resin, fiber, or fabric blends are not suitable for glycolysis. These can only be recovered by methanolysis/hydrolysis.) Since reaction time depends on surface area, PET feedstocks must be reduced to relatively small particles by grinding, cutting, etc. 

Again, hot work is that type of work that involves welding, grinding, cutting, and other flame- or potential spark-producing activity that might be performed in the vicinity of processes covered by the process safety management rule. The hot work permits provide for fire safety in conjunction with that type of work and typically include written authorizations and procedures for special controls and surveillance requirements. Most important is the coordination of maintenance and operations. 

Size reduction may be described in many terms, such as crushing, grinding, cutting, shearing, comminution, breaking, disintegration, or pulverization. The choice of term depends on the machine used to... 

Powered abrasive grinding, cutting, polishing, and wire buffing wheels create special safety problems because they may throw off flying fragments. 

Fluoroplastics described in this book are thermoplastics and can be reused under the right circumstances. There are a few sources of waste fluoropolymers. Various processing steps such as preforming, molding, machining, grinding, cutting create debris and scrap. Some... 

Threads of a mechanieal fastener ean be produced by cutting, rolling or grinding. Cutting and rolling are the most common. The differences, advantages, and disadvantages of these two types of threads are described below. 

Tribocorrosion leads to irreversible transformation of materials or of their functions because of the simultaneous mechanical and chemical/electrochemical interactions between surfaces in relative motion. Tribocorrosion degradation affects components in numerous industries such as mining, mineral processing, biomedical, automobile, food, nuclear, offshore, marine, oil and gas production, etc. However, it is found to be beneficial in chemical-mechanical planarization (CMP) of wafers in the electronics industry and in metal grinding or cutting in presence of aqueous emulsions. Hence, it is important to understand the interaction of mechanical wear and chemical/electrochemical processes with each other, either to prevent tribocorrosion or to use it effectively in applications such as CMP and metal grinding/cutting. 

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