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Presentation of Data
With both eco-solutions deployed, we projected the coolant lifetime could increase from 1.5 months to 3 months with a 50%
reduction in coolant usage volume (Table 4 and 5). The equivalent reduction of CO2 is shown in Table 5.
Usage Annual Annual CO2 Conversion Usage Annual Annual CO2 Conversion
Usage emissions Usage emissions
(kg) (kg)
Electricity 16473.6kWh 6683 0.4057kg Electricity 4800.6kWh 1948 0.4057kg
CO2/kWh CO2/kWh
Water 20.8m3 29.74 1.43kg CO2/ Water 11.05m3 15.8 1.43kg CO2/
m3 m3
Table 3: Annual Utility Consumption Table 4: Estimated Annual Utility Consumption on Deploy-
ment of Eco-solutions 1 and 2
Amount of Total amount of Total amount of Annual water Annual CO2
coolant mixture coolant mixture coolant mixture saving (m3) saved (kg)
used per CNC used for all 13 saved for all 13 - With a 1:15 {Conversation
machine per CNC machines CNC machines water-to- Ratio 1.43kg
year (litre) per year (litre) per year (litre) coolant ratio CO2/m3}
1600 20800 10400 9.75 13.94
Table 5: Amount of Coolant saved per year converted to CO2 emission reduction
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