Melting section

Performance information for the purification of p-xylene indicates that nearly 100 percent of the ciystals in the feed stream are removed as produc t. This suggests that the liquid which is refluxed from the melting section is effectively refrozen oy the countercurrent stream of subcooled crystals. A high-meltingproduct of 99.0 to 99.8 weight percent p-xylene has been obtained from a 65 weight percent p-xyfene feed. The major impurity was m-xylene. Figure 22-12 illustrates the column-cross-section-area-capacity relationship for various product purities. 

For this reason, other types of electrolytes are used in addition to aqueous solutions (i.e., nonaqueous solutions of salts (Section 8.1), salt melts (Section 8.2), and a variety of solid electrolytes (Section 8.3). More recently, a new type of solid electrolyte is being employed more often (i.e., water-impregnated ionically conducting polymer films more about them in Chapter 26). 

Figure 6.1 Schematic for a barrier melting section (courtesy of Jeff A. Myers of Robert Barr, Inc.). The barrier flight is undercut from the main flight to allow molten resin to transfer from the solids channel to the melt channel...

This chapter describes the processes that occur in the transition section or melting section of the screw. First, the historical melting process as initially outlined by... 

In this section, three models will be presented that don t force the reorganization of the solid bed and use screw rotation physics. These screw rotation models cause a significant portion of the energy dissipation to occur in the melt film between the solid bed and screw root. These models are for a conventional transition section, for a barrier melting section, and for a special case referred to as one-dlmenslonal melting. 

Barrier melting sections are constructed by positioning a second flight (or barrier flight) in the transition section such that the solids are maintained on the trailing side and the molten resin on the pushing side. A schematic of a cross section of a barrier melting section is shown in Fig. 6.22. The resin is melted as discussed in Section 6.3.1 in the solids channel of the device. The resin that is melted near the... 

Figure 6.22 Cross-sectional view/ of a barrier melting section...

As shown by Fig. 6.23, the channel geometry is relatively complicated for barrier flight melting sections. The geometric constraint on the channel widths are provided by Fq. 6.33. For most commercial designs, W is constant because the lead length of the primary flight is also constant. 

As Stated above, both Ws(z) and are fixed by the geometry of the screw. A schematic representation of the solid hed in the channel is shown in Fig. 6.25 for a barrier section geometry similar to that of Fig. 6.23(a). This representation depicts how the four films change In dimension as the solid bed is consumed in the melting section of the screw. 

Figure 6.26 Comparison of melting dynamics for a conventional melting channel and a transverse barrier melting channel for an LDPE resin at identical rates and screw speeds. The conventional channel is in red while the barrier melting section is in black...

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