During the process of cutting metals a coolant is often used for cooling the material being processed and to extend the lifespan of the cutting tool. After the process a mixture of coolant and metal chips remain. In order to separate these from each other vacuum filtration is used. The process of vacuum filtration works in such a way that a pump is used to generate a vacuum behind the filter. This causes the fluid to pass through the filter at an immense speed while the metal chips remain on the outside of the filter. After the separation the fluid may be reused in future cutting processes and the metal chips may be melted down and used in future products. The purpose of the project was to examine how different parameters like the flow, the vacuum, the pressure and the power consumption were affected by the chip coating on the filter. The goal was to observe the optimal working interval of the filtration system. In other words when the system filtrates fluid at the highest possible speed whilst still providing excellent filtration. The goal was also to examine how the different parameters changed in relation to the coating and each other. A machine for the testing was assembled. This machine used the same model of pump as the companies industrial filtration solutions. This meant that the flows, vacuums, pressures and power consumptions were all representative of the values produced by the industrial solutions. Instead of using an actual filter for the testing a check valve was used to simulate certain amounts of coating on the filter. The amounts simulated were between 10 and 60 degrees in intervals of 5 degrees. Another check valve was used for constricting the pressure side. This one was constricted between 10 and 50 degrees in intervals of 10 degrees. Constriction on the pressure side is used to extend the available working area of the system and decrease the vacuum. Although this decreases the flow as well. The tests illustrated clearly that the optimal working area for the system was between a vacuum of -0,4 and -0,7 bar with a pressure constriction of 10 degrees. The reason the area was not extended to -0,8 bar or the maximum -0,9 bar was because the immense vacuum effects the pump so much that it greatly decreases its lifespan.

Volvo Cars är ett välkänt företag som säljer bilar över hela världen. Idag skickar Volvo Cars sin kylvätska till leverantörer för analys. Processen är komplicerad och tar mycket tid. Det finns ett intresse hos Volvo Cars att själva kunna analysera kylvätskan. För att kunna göra detta krävs det att en metod som de kan använda för att analysera kylvätskan utvecklas. Examensarbetet syftar till att utveckla en metod som gör det möjligt att analysera koncentrationen av organiska syror i Volvos kylvätska. Analysen ska göras med hjälp av en High Performance Liquid Chromatography - HPLC. De organiska syrorna är inhibitorer som skyddar material i motorn från korrosion när det kommer i kontakt med kylvätskan. Metoden utvecklas i flera steg, det är viktigt att veta hur olika organiska syror kan analyseras med en HPLC. HPLC-analyser är mycket beroende av de intrumentella inställningarna. Inställningarna som ändrar när metoden utvecklas är pH, typ av kolonn, våglängd på detektorn, flödeshastighet i kolonnen, injektionsvolymen, sammansättning av eluent (lösningsmedel) och analystid. Kalibreringskurvor konstrueras för att sedan kunna användas i fortsatta studier. Tre av fem organiska syror som skulle analyseras var möjliga att analysera med två olika metoder. Den enda skillnaden mellan metoderna var våglängden på detektorn. En av de organiska syrorna hade en mer linjär kalibreringskurva vid en högre våglängd. / Volvo Cars is a well-known company and they are selling their cars all over the world. Today, Volvo Cars send their engine coolant to the supplier of engine coolant for analysis. This process is complicated and takes a lot of time. It is in the interest of Volvo Cars to be able to analyze the engine coolant themselves. In order to do that, a method where they can analyze the engine coolant must be developed. This exam work aim to develop a method where it is possible to analyze the concentration of organic acids in Volvo´s engine coolant with a High Performance Liquid Chromatography - HPLC. The organic acids are inhibitors that protect the materials in the engine from corrosion when in contact with the engine coolant. The method is developed in several steps. First it is important to know how different organic acids could be analyzed with an HPLC. HPLC-analysis is very dependent of the instrumental parameters. The parameters you change when developing a method are pH, kind of column, wavelength of the detector, kind of detector, flow rate in the column, injections volume, composition of the eluent (solvent) and, analysis time. Calibration curves are created and could be used as a reference in further analysis. Three of the five organic acids that were supposed to be analyzed were possible to analyze. Three organic acids were analyzed with one method and the two remaining organic acids with another method. The only difference between the methods is the wavelengths of the detector.