Continuous chaotic advection blender

Figure 14.6 Schematic representation of a continuous chaotic advection blender and related control system. Reproduced with permission from D.A. Zumbrunnen and B. Kulshreshtha and A. Dhoble, in Proceedings of the Annual SPE Conference - ANTEC, Boston, MA, USA, 2005, p.238. 2005, SPE)...

Dhoble A, Kulshreshtha B, Ramaswami S, Zumbrunnen DA. Mechanical properties of PP-LDPE blends with novel morphologies produced with a continuous chaotic advection blender. Polymer 2005 46 2244-5 6. 

Figure 1.9. Schematic representation of the continuous chaotic advection blender. (From Zumbrunnen et al. [71], (2005) Elsevier used with permission.)...

Fig. 1. Induced chaotic motion in a continuous chaotic advection blender (CCB) causes melt domains to become stretched and folded to give rise to baker s transformations. Novel, encapsulated multi-layers form that can also lead to solid additive orientation and promote molecular organization [4]. 

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