A prototype modular single screw extruder fitted with a screw extracting device is used
to monitor melting of an immiscible polymer blend (PP/PA6, with different weight ratios) in this
widely used processing equipment. As anticipated, the phenomena observed are much more
complex than those involved in extruding PP or PA6, when the well known Maddock/Tadmor
mechanism is valid. Consequently a hybrid melting mechanism, involving Maddock/Tadmor and
Dispersive melting sequences, is proposed.