Co-Rotating Twin-Screw Extruders: Fundamentals

• Introduction: Technical, Economic Importance, and Historical Development of Co-Rotating Twin-Screw Extruders; Overview of the Compounding Process; Process Understanding; Conveying and Power Parameters of Standard Conveying Elements
• Screw Elements: Geometry of Co-Rotating Extruders; Screw Elements and Their Use; Overview of Patented Screw Elements
• Material Properties of Polymers: Rheological Properties of Polymer Melts; Material Behavior of Blends; Diffusive Mass Transport in Polymers; Influence Factors and Reduction of Degradation during Polymer Processing; Calculation Basis for the Flow in Wedge Shaped Shear Gaps and Flow Properties of Filled Polymer Melts
• Conveying Behavior, Pressure and Performance Behavior: Conveying and Pressure Behavior of Highly Viscous Liquids in Extruders; Performance Behavior; Dissipation, Pump Efficiency Degree, Temperature Increase, and Heat Transfer; Pressure Generation and Energy Input in the Melt; Power Input and the Back-Pressure Length; Computational Fluid Dynamics