Abstract
•A new sort of green abrasives was developed in this work.•Abrasive wheel made with a natural tannin-furanic thermoset resin.•The substitution of petrol-derived resins by a green resin is possible for abrasive wheels.•Once more, oil-derived resins can be replaced by biosourced materials even for abrasive wheels application.•These abrasive wheels cure in a few minutes at ambient temperature.
A 100% biosourced thermoset material based on condensed tannin-furanic thermoset resins, thus using biosourced raw materials, has been used as the resin matrix of solid grinding wheels. Moreover, this new thermoset material is produced by a simple process, which can be easily industrialized. Grinding wheels based on this resin bonding different mineral and organic abrasive powders were developed and characterized. These grinding wheels show excellent abrasiveness properties when compared to a commercial grinding wheel.