Melting rate of a single screw extruder with a grooved melting zone

Avila-Alfaro, J. A.; Bonten, Christian

doi:10.1063/1.4965510

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“…Grünschloß firstly extended the grooves in the feeding zone to the melting zone and a SSE named HELIBAR with excellent plasticizing property was developed. The relative positions of barrel grooves and screw channels in melting zone were analyzed and a physical model of plasticizing process was established by Avila‐Alfaro et al . The results showed that the melting rate of SSE with grooved barrel was significantly higher than that of conventional SSE and the melting rate reached the maximum with a specific combination of the groove number and groove width.…”

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Experimental investigation of the single screw extruder with grooved melting zone

Chen

Lin

Xue

et al. 2017

Polymer Engineering & Sci

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The barrel grooves of feeding zone were extended to the melting zone in a single screw extruder (SSE). A novel melting mechanism for SSE with grooved melting zone and anticompression screw was proposed, and a new hydraulic quick‐opening SSE platform was specifically designed and built to verify the model using materials of PP and HDPE. Comparative experiments were carried out for investigating melting behavior with various combinations of barrels and screws. For the ability of building reasonable pressure, the anticompression screw fits SSE with grooved melting zone. The solids in barrel grooves were melted quickly at the beginning of melting zone and kept melted state in the entire melting zone, which greatly improved the melting of solids in screw channel. Compared with conventional SSE, it was found that actual melting temperature was about 10°C higher in the case of SSE with grooved melting zone and anticompression screw. Although melting of polymer in the screw channel started at a later time, the melting length of SSE with grooved melting zone was greatly shortened by 50%, compared with that of traditional extruder. The melting efficiency and the throughout were also improved significantly. POLYM. ENG. SCI., 58:1555–1563, 2018. © 2017 Society of Plastics Engineers

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