Influence of polymer viscoelasticity on the residence distributions of extruders

AIChE Journal

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 1451-1459

  Elkouss, Paul ^a   Bigio, David I ^a   Wetzel, Mark D ^b   Raghavan, Srinivasa R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Elasticity, polypropylene; Polyethylene; Residence distributions; Rheology; Twin screw extruder

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY, POLYPROPYLENE; RESIDENCE DISTRIBUTIONS (RD); RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTIONS (RTDS); TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYETHYLENES; RHEOLOGY; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

EXTRUDERS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRUDERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POLYETHYLENES; RHEOLOGY; VISCOELASTICITY; VISCOUS FLOW;

EID: 33645678847     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.10754     Document Type: Article

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