Experimental Study of Melting in an Intermeshing Counter-Rotating Twin Screw Extruder
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K. Wilczynski
Abstract
An experimental study is presented of the melting mechanism in a starve fed closely intermeshing counter-rotating twin screw extruder of a modular Leistritz design. Polypropylene and low density polyethylene as well as different screw configurations of thick flighted and thin flighted elements were investigated, at various operating conditions. A “Screw Pulling-out Technique” was used to characterize polymer behavior along the screw axis. In particular, the solid conveying, melting positions, the extent of starved character along the screw, and the fully filled regions were observed. Polymer samples were stripped off from each screw which was removed from the machine to investigate melting mechanism. Generally, it was concluded that the melt mechanism consists of pellets being dragged into the calendering gap where they are melted due to calendering action. In the case of thick flighted screws, the molten polymer is expelled from the gap and pushes against the pellet bed which is continuously dragged into the gap.
© 2001, Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich
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Articles in the same Issue
- Editorial
- Tenth of a Series: Pioneer of The Polymer Thermoset Industry – Leo-Hendrik Baekeiand
- Screw Extrusion
- Effects of Process Conditions on the Dissolution of Carbon Dioxide in PS in Foaming Extruders
- The Design of Extrusion Screws: An Optimization Approach
- Generalized Flow of Ellis Fluid in the Screw Channel
- Generalized Flow of Ellis Fluid in the Screw Channel
- Experimental Study of Melting in an Intermeshing Counter-Rotating Twin Screw Extruder
- Reactive Extrusion
- A Dynamic Model for Multiple Steady States in Reactive Extrusion
- Fiber and Film
- PA612 Double Bubble Tubular Film Process – Processability and Structure Development
- Injection Molding
- Injection Molding Technology for High Speed Optical Disk
- Three-dimensional Filling and Post-filling Simulation of Polymer Injection Molding
- Cold Rolling
- Microstructure and Prediction of Stress-strain Behaviour of Cold-rolled PP Sheets
