A REVIEW PAPER ON ELECTRO CHEMICAL MACHINING

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Jet electrochemical machining is a non-traditional machining process which is developed by W.Gussef as far back as 1929. This process commercially developed in 1959 by Anocut Engineering Company. B.R. and J.I. Lazarenko was credited with proposing the use of electrolysis for metal removal. In 1960 and 1970s much research was done, particularly in the gas turbine industry. The rise of EDM in the same period slowed ECM research in the west, although work continued behind the Iron Curtain. The original problems of poor dimensional accuracy and environmentally polluting waste have largely been overcome, although the process remains a niche technique. In this process material is removing by electrochemical process which is used for mass production and for hard material or materials that are difficult to machine using conventional methods. Its use is limited to electrically conductive materials. This paper critically reviews the development of physical experimental work in Jet-ECM and corresponding hybrid technologies and their applications, e.g. laser- and air assisted Jet-ECM. In addition to discussing the merits of the physical experimental research challenges in the future of Jet-ECM development.

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