Modelling the effects of operating conditions on motor power consumption in single screw extrusion

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 6329 LNCS, Issue PART 2, 2010, Pages 9-20

  Abeykoon, Chamil ^a   McAfee, Marion ^b   Li, Kang ^a   Martin, Peter J ^a   Deng, Jing ^a   Kelly, Adrian L ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Atlantic Technological University   (Ireland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Energy Efficiency; Modelling; Single Screw Extrusion

Indexed keywords

COOLING FANS; DEVELOPED MODEL; DIRECT CURRENT; DRIVE MOTORS; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EFFICIENT; MODELLING; MOTOR POWER; NEW MODEL; OPERATING CONDITION; PROCESS ENERGY EFFICIENCY; PROCESS SETTINGS; PROCESSING CONDITION; PRODUCTION METHODS; SINGLE SCREW EXTRUDER; SINGLE SCREW EXTRUSION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DC POWER TRANSMISSION; ELASTOMERS; ENERGY UTILIZATION; EXTRUDERS; EXTRUSION; INTELLIGENT COMPUTING; OPERATING COSTS; PLASTICITY; PLASTICS INDUSTRY; PRODUCTION; PUMPS; SCREWS;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

EID: 78649590848     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-15597-0_2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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