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Performance Evaluation and Analysis of the Screw and Die of the Single Screw Extruder Using the CFD  

Kim, Jae-Yoel (조선대학교 메카트로닉스공학과)
Chung, Hyo-Hee (조선대학교 대학원 첨단부품소재공학과)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers / v.18, no.2, 2009 , pp. 194-200 More about this Journal
Abstract
The extruder type is classified as screw type and non-screw type in terms of the extrusion method. The screw type extruder, which is the most frequently used, is classified as the single screw extruder and the multi-screw extruder. They are classified as vertical type and horizontal type in terms of structure; and those for compounding and for forming in terms of function. The single screw extruder is a universal extruder, most of which is suitable for the extrusion forming of thermoplastic resin. The multi-screw(two-screw, three-screw and four-screw) extruder can increase the extrusion power using the engagement of the screw flank. The single screw extruder does not have a good mixing ratio of the raw material and stable extrusion power, while it has low construction cost and operation cost. In this study, the single screw extruder, which has many weak points compared with the multi-screw extruder, was studied. There have been many studies on the single screw extruder, and they led to its significant development. The existing study method, however, had complex analysis processes and required much time. In this study, the CFD was applied to the performance test and analysis of the extruder, and the optimal design condition of the extrusion power for the screw and die of the single screw extruder was found by comparing the analysis results with the actual performance measurement of the single screw extruder.
Keywords
Single-screw extruder; Multi-screw extruder; Compounding; Molding; Computing fluid analysis;
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