A Much Greener Copper Wire Production
The energy used for the mechanical deformation in a metal working process is transformed into a higher temperature of the material which is being deformed. This also applies to traditional copper rod breakdown machines, which use dies to reduce the diameter, but, in this case, the process requires that the copper must be cooled before entering the next die to avoid wire breaks. This leads to hard wire and to the subsequent need for annealing, which consumes a great amount
of electrical energy.
The question is whether there is a more efficient way to work, to avoid the dissipation of energy by cooling down the copper and then reheating it in the annealer