Characteristics Study of Polymer Melt Conveying Capacity in Vane Plasticization Extruder

A vane extruder is novel equipment for polymer processing. The materials were conveyed and plasticized by a group of vane plasticization units and the materials suffered normal stress during processing. An analytic model was developed to analyze the conveying capacity of melt in the vane plasticization unit of which the melt can be conveyed positively. The analysis of conveying capacity of melt in the vane plasticization unit shows that the conveying capacity increased with the rotate speed, eccentricity distance, vane width, inner-diameter of stator. And the leakage flow model was developed to show that the leakage flow is increased with the width of leakage gaps but decreased with the apparent viscosity of melt. The experiment results show a linear variation of production with rotating speed, and small dependence effect of production with die pressure variation.