Mixers, internal basic studies

There was little basic study of the internal mixer until relatively recently. In 1979, Freakley and Wan Idris [F8] published the first flow visualization... 

Kim, J. K., Basic study of starvation effects on flow and mixing in an internal mixer, Proc. of 4th International Seminor on Elastomers (ISE90), Kurume, Japan, 1990, p. 158. 

There have been few published basic studies of intermeshing rotors of internal mixers from P. S. Kim, Koolihiran, and White [70 to 72]. These show that intermeshing rotor machines mix carbon black and silica more rapidly than separated rotor machines and achieve better quality mixes. 

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