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A Method for the Validation of Simulated Mixing Characteristics of Two Dynamic Mixers in Single-Screw Extrusion
The field of simulation and optimisation of dynamic mixing elements (‘mixers’) is lacking good methods for spatially resolved validation and flow visualisation. For this reason, the authors present an experimental setup that gives better insight into the thermal, distributive and dispersive mixing p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7650596/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32998375 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12102234 |
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author | Hopmann, Christian Schön, Malte Reul, Maximilian Mathias Facklam, Martin |
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description | The field of simulation and optimisation of dynamic mixing elements (‘mixers’) is lacking good methods for spatially resolved validation and flow visualisation. For this reason, the authors present an experimental setup that gives better insight into the thermal, distributive and dispersive mixing process by measuring melt temperatures upstream of the mixer and injecting a secondary, visually distinguishable stream of melt upstream. Running extrusion trials for a polyethylene on both a rhomboidal and a Maddock mixer, temperatures, gray scale distribution of images of extrudates and size of dispersed domains in incompatible polystyrene were measured. It was found that temperatures upstream and downstream of the mixer can be quantified. This was used to validate a simulation of thermal mixing. In distributive mixing, good agreement with simulation and an excellent spatial resolution were observed, thereby identifying an area of the rhomboidal mixer in need of geometric improvement. For dispersive mixing, a trend coherent with extrusion theory was found. |
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spelling | pubmed-76505962020-11-10 A Method for the Validation of Simulated Mixing Characteristics of Two Dynamic Mixers in Single-Screw Extrusion Hopmann, Christian Schön, Malte Reul, Maximilian Mathias Facklam, Martin Polymers (Basel) Article The field of simulation and optimisation of dynamic mixing elements (‘mixers’) is lacking good methods for spatially resolved validation and flow visualisation. For this reason, the authors present an experimental setup that gives better insight into the thermal, distributive and dispersive mixing process by measuring melt temperatures upstream of the mixer and injecting a secondary, visually distinguishable stream of melt upstream. Running extrusion trials for a polyethylene on both a rhomboidal and a Maddock mixer, temperatures, gray scale distribution of images of extrudates and size of dispersed domains in incompatible polystyrene were measured. It was found that temperatures upstream and downstream of the mixer can be quantified. This was used to validate a simulation of thermal mixing. In distributive mixing, good agreement with simulation and an excellent spatial resolution were observed, thereby identifying an area of the rhomboidal mixer in need of geometric improvement. For dispersive mixing, a trend coherent with extrusion theory was found. MDPI 2020-09-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7650596/ /pubmed/32998375 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12102234 Text en © 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hopmann, Christian Schön, Malte Reul, Maximilian Mathias Facklam, Martin A Method for the Validation of Simulated Mixing Characteristics of Two Dynamic Mixers in Single-Screw Extrusion |
title | A Method for the Validation of Simulated Mixing Characteristics of Two Dynamic Mixers in Single-Screw Extrusion |
title_full | A Method for the Validation of Simulated Mixing Characteristics of Two Dynamic Mixers in Single-Screw Extrusion |
title_fullStr | A Method for the Validation of Simulated Mixing Characteristics of Two Dynamic Mixers in Single-Screw Extrusion |
title_full_unstemmed | A Method for the Validation of Simulated Mixing Characteristics of Two Dynamic Mixers in Single-Screw Extrusion |
title_short | A Method for the Validation of Simulated Mixing Characteristics of Two Dynamic Mixers in Single-Screw Extrusion |
title_sort | method for the validation of simulated mixing characteristics of two dynamic mixers in single-screw extrusion |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7650596/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32998375 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/polym12102234 |
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