Akro co-twin screw

Commercial software to predict the performance of composite modular co-rotating twin-screw extruders in industrial processing operations has been developed. This was first achieved by researchers at the University of Akron [109,110,126,129,135] and called Akro co twin screw. Subsequent developments of similar software were given by Potente et al. [125,128] at the University of Paderborn and by Vergnes et al. [136] at the Ecole de Mines. Typical computations by these programs are developed in Fig. 9.26. Pressure, temperature, fill factor, melting, and screw torque profiles are predicted as a function of process conditions. 

Figure 9.26 Akro co twin-screw calculations of performance of modular co-rotating twin-screw extruder...

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