Profit Optimization of Steel Shot Blasting Processes

Abstract

This paper presents a study on profit optimization of steel shot blasting systems. In the study, the influences of blasting process parameters including air pressure, nozzle diameter, cost components as well as the effect of the nozzle wear on the profit of a cleaning process were investigated. Based on the results of the optimization problem, a regression model for calculation of the optimum exchanged nozzle diameter in order to get the maximum profit rate was proposed. By using the model, both the profit and the blasting time can be reduced considerably.