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The chemical process industries, being energy intensive in nature, still struggle to strategically and sustainably consider energy management issues. Energy sustainability depends on a sustainable energy supply, consumption, and waste disposal. This paper analyses current energy management and optimization in industries and also attempts to identify the significance of incorporating energy management into the strategic perspectives of industry through an exhaustive literature review. To ensure the optimization of energy, the paper illustrates the importance of adopting a techno-managerial approach that integrates the technical aspects of energy conservation with relevant management tactics. This is also a preliminary study for proposing a framework for Indian chemical process SMEs to systematically overcome various challenges and seize the opportunity to ensure optimized energy utilization, thereby highlighting the framework’s long- and short-term benefits. The suggestions in the paper would help these industries and local- and national-level policymakers to improve their energy footprint and make the world more energy sustainable.

Heat generated in machining is significant to study, as number of technical and economic problems has root into it. The high temperatures on cutting tool needs better understanding of contact processes at tool-chip ,tool-workpiece interfaces. The contact length at tool-chip interface is significant to study as it governs the heat moving to the tool as well as many tribological conditions like stresses, tool wear. Understanding of Tool-workpiece interface is significant as it affects the heat moving to workpiece, tool, chip as well as tool flank wear and major machined surface characteristics. Non-sliding type tool wear mechanisms which are highly sensitive to temperature changes are important to study. The latest trends of using High Speed Machining, Dry and Near Dry Machining, Finish hard turning results in more heat generation demanding significant understanding of effect of heat generated and temperatures.