Mixer twin rotor

Trough-and-Screw Mixers These mixers usually consist of single or twin rotors which continually turn the feed material over as it... 

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Many compounding processes are configured with a twin-rotor mixer or twin-screw extruder to perform the compounding followed by a single-screw extruder to pressurize the material for pelletization. A typical process is shown in Fig. 13.8. In... 

Figure 10.15. Some mixers and blenders for powders and pastes, (a) Ribbon blender for powders, (b) Flow pattern in a double cone blender rotating on a horizontal axis, (c) Twin shell (Vee-type) agglomerate breaking and liquid injection are shown on the broken line, (d) Twin rotor available with jacket and hollow screws for heat transfer, (e) Batch muller. (f) Twin mullers operated continuously, (g) Double-arm mixer and kneader (Baker-Perkins Inc.), (h) Some types of blades for the double-arm kneader (Baker—Perkins Irtc.).

The continuous mixer (CM) is a counterrotating, nonintermeshing twin-rotor machine. The Farrel Continuous Mixer (FCM) was the first CM developed (1964) by Ahlefeld et al. (8). It has rotor designs along the principles of the Banbury3 high-intensity batch mixer. 

Fig. 10.6 The single-stage FCM. (a) Size 15 FCM with chamber opened and rotated hydraulically (b) top view of staged apex twin rotors and the axial zones for carrying out the solids feed handling and the melting and mixing elementary steps (c) cross-sectional view of two rotor orientations, tip-to-tip (cx) and tip-to-flat (c2). [Reprinted by permission from E. L. Canedo and L. N. Valsamis, Farrel Continuous Mixer Systems for Plastics Compounding, in Plastics Compounding—Equipment and Processing, D. B. Todd, Ed., Hanser, Munich, 1998.]...

In this section we discuss the following counterrotating, twin rotor-based equipment the fully intermeshing TSE, the tangential TSE, the multilobal compounders, the CM FCMs, and the Banbury-type batch intensive mixer. We will comment on all the elementary steps taking place in them, and do so quantitatively, when possible. 

Recalling the profound differences in the melting mechanisms in SSEs and in corotating twin-screw extruders (Co-TSE) (Chapter 5), we see that the latter one creates all of the melt almost instantaneously, resulting in a very narrow melt age distribution, while in SSE the age distribution is very broad. Thus, Co-TSEs and twin rotor melting devices [e.g., continuous mixers (CMs)] are better suited to be reactors of polymer melts, as is reflected in the current industrial reactive polymer processing practice. 

The TSMEE is an experimental device developed to study melting and mixing in twin rotor mixers during the Polymer Mixing Study conducted at the Polymer Processing Institute (95). 

B. David, T. Sapir, A. Nir, and Z. Tadmor, Twin Rotor Mixers and Extruders, The Extended Cartesian Flow Analysis Network Method, Int. Polym. Process., 5, 155 (1990). 

Trough-and-screw mixers usually consist of a single rotor or twin rotors that continually turn the feed material over as it progresses toward the discharge end of the mixer. Some mixers have been designed with extensive heat-transfer surface area. The continuous-screw, Holo-Flite processor (Fig. 18-59) is used primarily for heat transfer, since the hollow screws provide extended surfaces without creating much shear. Two or four screws may be used. 

Originally developed for natural rubbers, foodstuffs, and elastomers, at present these machines are used as a stirred tank reactor or a twin-rotor continuous mixer. Their bearings are exposed mainly to radial, not axial, forces. By using one screw longer than the other, one can separate the mixing and pumping functions. 

Plastication by kneading is done in variable shear roll mixers, in rotor mixers of the Banbury or Wemer-Pfleiderer type, or in twin-screw extruders or in special mixers. Plastication made in two-roll mixers is not economical and it is used mainly for batch production or to mix substances of different natures. For continuous line production, single or twin-screw extruders or a Buss KO-Kneader are used. These mixers or extruders operate in a friction mode this friction is obtained by a horizontal backward and forward motion of the screw. The screw may have threads or flights of regular width or of lai ger width and slantly cut in the rotational direction (see Fig. 14.10). Homogenization in these machines is so efficient that even fish-eyes present in PE and suspension polymerized PVC can be disaggregated [8]. 

Twin Rotor, Contrarotating, Non Intermeshing Continuous Mixers... 

In this study we have used a Kobe counter-rotating twin rotor continuous mixer (Kobe LCM-IOOG) as described in [6]. The unit was fitted with Kobe EL-2 type rotors which consist of a feed section, a mixing section with forwarding and reverse wings, a gate mechanism, a... 

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