Extrusion BEPEX Basket extruder

Figure 12.16. Two types of extrusion pelleting equipment, (a) Screw-type extruder for molten plastics The die is turned 90° in the illustration from its normal position for viewing purposes. The extruded material is cooled and chopped subsequently as needed, (b) Ring extruders material is charged with screw conveyors to the spaces between the inner rolls and the outer perforated ring, the ring rotates, material is forced through the dies and cut off with knives. (Walas, 1988). (c) BEPEX basket extruder (Courtesy of Hoso Kawa. BEPEX Gmblh).

Fig. 8.20 Photograph of the major components (feed hopper, extrusion blades, and perforated die) of a small basket extruder (Bextruder BX 150, courtesy Hosokawa Bepex GmbH, Leingarten, Germany).

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