Screw pump ratio

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Melting the Plastic Material. The plastic pellets are fed through a hopper into an extruder screw, typically with an L/D ratio of 20/1. The first half of the screw compresses the pellets and squeezes out air. The third quarter of the screw melts the pellets, 70 percent by friction, 30 percent by conduction from heater bands on the extruder barrel. This is called preplastica-tion. The fourth quarter of the screw pumps the melt forward to the front of the extruder, where it goes through a one-way valve to prevent backflow. As the molten plastic accumulates at... 

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Eor PA/ABS blends, e.g., Alphaloy MPA, Elemid , Diaaloy N, Kane ace MUH, Malecca S, Maxloy A, Monkalloy N, N5, Novaloy -A, Stapron N, SX, Techniace TA, Toyolac Adloy, Triax 1000, Ultramid ), single or twin screw extruders are suitable. However, the latter are preferred. Typical ABS extrusion procedure should be followed. Eor two-stage screws, a first stage compression ratio of 25-2.1 and pump ratio 1.5-2 are recommended. 

Wheat bran and sodium hydroxide were blended at room temperature in a separate reactor one hour before each experiment. Tlie initial L/S ratio was seven and the mixture was stirred for five minutes. The L/S ratio was increased to ten just before the introduction of the mixture into the twin screw extruder with a Nemo excentric-screw pump. Straw was introduced in the extruder s first section with a screw feeder. Straw was mixed with the alkaline dough in the first zone of the barrel through the neutral pitch element and the reverse-pitch screw element successively. The washing water was injected downstream from this zone, and the mixture was conveyed through the second reverse pitch located just downstream from the filtration module. The filtrate was collected and kept in a cold room before further processing, while the refined cellulosic fibres were gathered at the barrel outlet. 

A small re-circulation pipeline loop was used for measuring the slurry flow parameters. A test section consists of three stainless steel pipes of inner diameter D = 10.5, 17.5 and 26.8 mm. The length/diameter ratio of the test section for each pipe diameter was 300, 400 and 260, respectively. The slurry was forced to pipe by a screw pump with speed regulator from an open storage tank, equipped with an agitator to prevent slurry settlement. All pipes used in the test section could be considered as smooth pipes. Measuring section of the loop was equipped with three pressure tapings connected to differential pressure transducers. Box divider at the pipe outlet allowed direct volumetric measurement of the flow rate, slurry density and concentration, Chara et al [5]. 

The measurements are done with an external mix twin-fluid nozzle in which inner diameter for the liquid is 0.7 mm and the annular outer diameter for the gas is 1.5 mm. The aspect ratio of the length and diameter of the inner liquid pipe is 4.5. This nozzle is made by Biichi GmbH and is an equipment of the laboratory spray dryer B191, which is also used for spray drying the polymer solutions. To avoid pulsation of the spray, the nozzle is fed with an eccentric screw pump. The gas flow is controlled with a mass flow controller by Bronkhorst B.V. 

Rotatory dosing pumps such as gear pumps or eccentric screw pumps which are electrically driven do not have the aforementioned drawbacks. The control occurs internally in the drive system. The pump size (in ccm/revolution), the transmission ratio, and the individually determined slip factor allow exact correlation between the speed of the drive and the resulting volume flow. The internal control loop of the electrical drive adjusts the set value. The control loop usually consists of an incremental counter, which monitors the speed within the work cycle (2-5 ms). If a difference between the actual increment and the set increment is recorded (contouring error), the power uptake of the motor is adjusted with the aim of no longer having a difference at the end of the next cycle (cycle time). Factors such as viscosity changes in the adhesive result in altered power uptake by the drive. 

Large systems working at temperatures above freezing may be able to use centrifugal compressors, but the pressure ratio is not favourable. Most heat pumps will have reciprocating or screw compressors. Refrigerants are those in general use. 

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