Global mixing indices for single screw extrusion

• Author(s): Domingues, N. ; Gaspar-Cunha, A. ; Covas, J. A.
• Date: 2008
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/18833
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Mixing; Extrusion; Distribution; Dispersion
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

The present work presents numerical simulations of dispersive and distributive mixing of a two phase system being processed in a single screw extruder under various conditions. Models were developed to quantify the degree of mixing of liquid-liquid and solids-liquid systems, for a given set of material properties, operating conditions and extruder geometry.