## Abstract A study of melting a polymer pellet immersed in a hot silicone oil bath was conducted. The temperature rise at the center of the pellet was recorded. This experiment simulates the conduction melting mechanism of polymer solid pieces mixed in the hot melt inside an extruder screw channel
Analytical melting model for polymer pellets
β Scribed by S. H. Kuo; C. I. Chung
- Publisher
- Society for Plastic Engineers
- Year
- 1989
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 643 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0032-3888
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
## Abstract Our laboratory recently published several analytical equations that can be used to predict the melting rate of fully compacted solid polymers sliding on a heated metal surface, modeling the melting mechanism inside an extruder. These equations were obtained by seeking asymptotic solutio
Nomenclature C A, C B Specific Heat of Polymers A and B Ken Effective Thermal Conductivity of Mixtures of Polymers A and B fA, fB Fraction of the Crystallinity of Polymers A and B fsa, fsB Fraction of the Crystalline Portion of A (or B) fSA.m, fss,,, Fraction of the Crystalline Portion of Polymer A
## Abstract With the visualization corotating twinβscrew extruder, the melting of HDPE pellets under different screw configurations and operational conditions was investigated onβline. It is shown that the melting progression of polymer pellets in corotating twinβscrew extruders is different from t