Melt blending of dissimilar polymers by a small scale mixer: Mixing with steel balls

Polymer Networks and Blends

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 61-75

  Maréchal, Philippe ^a,b   Chiba, Tsuneo ^a   Inoue, Takashi ^a  

^a TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b Zone Industrielle C   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blend; Mini Max Molder; Mixing Efficiency; Particle Size; Polymer; Size Distribution

Indexed keywords

BLENDING; DISSIMILAR MATERIALS; EXTRUDERS; MIXERS (MACHINERY); MIXING; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SHEAR FLOW;

MAXWELL SMALL SCALE MIXERS; MIXING EFFICIENCY;

POLYMER BLENDS;

EID: 0030699689     PISSN: 11819510     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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