Design and Fabrication of Multi-Layered Microfilter by Electropolishing Technique

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In this paper, we present electropolishing method to fabricate a thin-structural layer of microfilter which is used for filtering blood in hemodialysis system. The electropolishing method removes material based on electrolysis process, in which material removal is done through electrical current which trigger material removal by chemical reactions. The preliminary experiment shows that the SS 316L structural layer was able to be fabricated in less than 7 minutes, under machining parameter of 7 V of DC voltage, 2 cm gap between tool electrode and workpiece, and utilizing 15% of NaCl in pure water. This promising result has indicated that electropolishing could further be used as a method to make thin-structural layer of microfilter for hemodialysis system.

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