Choice of technology and evaluation of the production capabilities of a 3d printer robot for creating elements of experimental equipment for the production of biofuel components
This addresses inefficiencies in biofuel research equipment prototyping, but it is incremental as it applies existing 3D printing methods to a new domain.
The paper tackled the problem of expensive and time-consuming manufacturing of experimental biofuel production equipment by developing a robotic 3D printing complex, resulting in successful creation of equipment elements and numerical experiments showing strength characteristics.
Elements of experimental equipment for the production of biofuel components must meet high reliability and safety requirements. At the same time, in the course of research on the subject of creating equipment for the production of biofuels, a variable range of equipment is regularly proposed and should be checked. The manufacture of elements of such equipment by traditional methods is expensive and inefficient, time-consuming, which negatively affects the speed of scientific research. To this end, it is proposed to develop a robotic 3D printing complex that provides maximum flexibility in creating mock-ups and test samples of equipment for the production of biofuel components. The article discusses the experience of successfully creating equipment elements for the production of fuels using 3d printing. Next, the choice of a robotization scheme for a 3D printing installation is described and the choice of printing technology is substantiated. The article also presents the results of calculating the parameters of the 3v-printer robot and the results of calculating the similarity parameters for the implementation and evaluation of control algorithms. The results of a numerical experiment for calculating the strength characteristics of equipment elements manufactured using the selected 3d printing technology are presented.