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<p>In recent times, demand for sustainable products and systems keeps increasing. It is guided by need for reduction of energy and material consumption. Powder metallurgy (PM) has generally lower energy consumption and higher material yield than other conventional processes, such as casting, forming and machining. Also some additive manufacturing (AM) techniques use metal powder as feedstock. In this paper, the energy consumption and material yield of AM techniques using metal powders are compared with conventional manufacturing.</p>
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In recent times, demand for sustainable products and systems keeps increasing. It is guided by need for reduction of energy and material consumption. Powder metallurgy (PM) has generally lower energy consumption and higher material yield than other conventional processes, such as casting, forming and machining. Also some additive manufacturing (AM) techniques use metal powder as feedstock. In this paper, the energy consumption and material yield of AM techniques using metal powders are compared with conventional manufacturing.

Sustainability Aspects of Parts Additive Manufacturing from Metal Powder

SLOVAK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY IN BRATISLAVA

Research Papers Faculty of Materials Science and Technology Slovak University of Technology

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In recent times, demand for sustainable products and systems keeps increasing. It is guided by need for reduction of energy and material consumption. Powder...

Sustainability Aspects of Parts Additive Manufacturing from Metal Powder

Publicado en línea: 23 ago 2022

Páginas: 37 - 44

Recibido: 29 abr 2022

Aceptado: 16 may 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rput-2022-0005

Palabras clave
Sustainability, metal powder, additive manufacturing

© 2022 Roland Šuba, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Sustainability Aspects of Parts Additive Manufacturing from Metal Powder

Publicado en línea: 23 ago 2022

Páginas: 37 - 44

Recibido: 29 abr 2022

Aceptado: 16 may 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/rput-2022-0005

Palabras claveSustainability, metal powder, additive manufacturing

© 2022 Roland Šuba, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
Sustainability, metal powder, additive manufacturing