Nonisothermal modeling of heat transfer inside an internal batch mixer

AIChE Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2657-2669

  Bai, Yun ^a   Sundararaj, Uttandaraman ^a   Nandakumar, Krishnaswamy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Batch mixer; Heat transfer; Mixing; Nonisothermal; Polymer processing; Simulation

Indexed keywords

BATCH MIXERS; CONVERGING FLOW; ELONGATIONAL FLOW; MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RISE; MELT TEMPERATURE; MIXING INDEX; NONISOTHERMAL; POLYFLOW; POLYMER PROCESSING; RE-CIRCULATION FLOW; ROTATION SPEED; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE INCREASE; TRANSIENT FLOW FIELDS; TRANSIENT PROCESS; UNIFORM TEMPERATURE; VELOCITY PROFILES; VISCOUS HEATING;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; HEATING; LAMINAR FLOW; MIXERS (MACHINERY); POLYETHYLENES; POLYMER MELTS; POLYSTYRENES; RESINS;

MIXING;

EID: 80052613862     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12484     Document Type: Article

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