How do multiple flights improve the effectiveness of a cooling extruder screw?

Annual Technical Conference - ANTEC, Conference Proceedings

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 2063-2069

  Wang, Lilac Cuiling ^a   Bussmann, Markus ^a   Park, Chul B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; Cooling; Extruder; Heat transfer; Mixing; Multi flight

Indexed keywords

COOLING EXTRUDERS; COOLING SCREWS; DESIGN ELEMENTS; EXTRUSION LINE; FLIGHT CONFIGURATIONS; FLIGHT DESIGN; GAS LADEN MELTS; MELT FLOW; MULTI-FLIGHT; NUMERICAL STUDIES;

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; ELASTOMERS; ENGINEERS; EXTRUSION; FLIGHT SIMULATORS; PLASTIC PRODUCTS; PLASTICITY; POLYMER MELTS; SCREWS;

EXTRUDERS;

EID: 77956930275     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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