Non traditional cooling technique using Peltier effect for single point boron carbide (B4C) cutting tool doping with titanium carbide (TiC)

A single point cutting tool is modeled out of two different materials having desired thermoelectric properties. The tool material used is Boron Carbide (B4C) doped with different compositions of Titanium Carbide (TiC). In the present work, three different compositions of Titanium Carbide doped on both sides of cutting tool made by Boron carbide. The available combinations of Titanium Carbide (TiC) from the work bench in ANSYS was selected with three cases of 0 & 25.4%, 0% &12.5% and 12.5% & 25.4% on first half and second half of the cutting tool respectively. The simulation process is done in ANSYS 2020 R2 software, thermal-electric module (TEM) is used. From these studies it is evident that considerable cooling effect is achieved and found to be the lowest temperature of 10.93°C is observed for the combination of 0% &25.4%, 18.79°C is observed for the combination of 0& 12.5% and 26.73°C for 12.5% and 25.4% combination at the junction of the tool material which is nearer to the cutting tip respectively. Finally it is concluded that one side of cutting tool without any doping and other side with 25.4% TiC doped showed good results which observed by conducting number of simulations at different levels of iterations for Titanium Carbide doped Boron Carbide cutting tool used in turning operation.