Erosion of polymer pellets during blending in a twin-screw extruder

AIChE Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 1267-1270

  Chen, Hongbing ^a   Sundararaj, Uttandaraman ^a   Nandakumar, Krishnaswamy ^a   Wetzel, Mark D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion; Extrusion; On line visualization; Polymer blend; Polymer breakup

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645571801     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10701     Document Type: Article

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