Energy monitoring and quality control of a single screw extruder

Applied Energy

Volumn 113, Issue , 2014, Pages 1775-1785

  Deng, Jing ^a   Li, Kang ^a   Harkin Jones, Eileen ^a   Price, Mark ^a   Karnachi, Nayeem ^a   Kelly, Adrian ^b   Vera Sorroche, Javier ^b   Coates, Phil ^b   Brown, Elaine ^b   Fei, Minrui ^c  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Energy efficiency; Fuzzy control; Melt quality; Polymer extrusion; Single screw extruder

Indexed keywords

CONTROLLERS; ENERGY DISSIPATION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; EXTRUDERS; EXTRUSION; FUZZY CONTROL; FUZZY LOGIC; GEAR PUMPS; MATERIALS HANDLING; MONITORING; POLYMERS; SCREWS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

FUZZY LOGIC CONTROLLERS; HEATING TEMPERATURES; MELT QUALITY; PID (PROPORTIONALINTEGRAL-DERIVATIVE); POLYMER EXTRUSION; PRODUCT SPECIFICATIONS; SINGLE SCREW EXTRUDER; TEMPERATURE SETTING;

QUALITY CONTROL;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; HEATING; HOMOGENEITY; INSTALLATION; MELTING; POLYMER; QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84886945861     PISSN: 03062619     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apenergy.2013.08.084     Document Type: Article

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