Design of a new type of pin mixing section for a screw extruder based on analysis of flow and distributive mixing performance

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-21

  Yao, W G ^a   Takahashi, K ^a,b   Koyama, K ^a   Dai, G C ^b  

^a YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

flow field; integral mixing efficiency; Local mixing efficiency; pin mixing section; visualization experiment

Indexed keywords

EXTRUDERS; FLOW ANALYSIS; MIXING;

FLOW VISUALIZATION; MIXING; NUMERICAL METHODS;

INTEGRAL MIXING EFFICIENCY; LOCAL MIXING EFFICIENCY; PIN MIXING SECTIONS; SCREW EXTRUDERS;

EXTRUDERS;

EID: 0030617387     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(96)00381-8     Document Type: Article

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