Investigation of the melting mechanism in a twin-screw extruder using a pulse method and online measurement

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 43, Issue 21, 2004, Pages 6822-6831

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXTRUDERS; MELTING; POLYSTYRENES; PRESSURE; PULSATILE FLOW;

RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION (RTD); TRANSITION REGIONS; TWIN-SCREW EXTRUDERS (TSE);

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING;

POLYMER; POLYPROPYLENE; POLYSTYRENE;

MELTING;

ARTICLE; DEVICE; ENERGY; FLOW RATE; MEASUREMENT; MELTING POINT; PARAMETER; PRESSURE; ROTATION; SOLID; TECHNIQUE; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; TWIN SCREW EXTRUDER; VELOCITY;

EID: 4944234401     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie049650s     Document Type: Article

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