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INTRODUCTION TO MODELLING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN GRAIN SIZES OF FEED MATERIAL AND THE STRUCTURE AND EFFICIENCY OF THE PROCESS OF CO-ROTATING TWIN-SCREW EXTRUSION OF NON-FLAMMABLE COMPOSITES WITH A PLA MATRIX

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ACTA MECHANICA ET AUTOMATICA
卷 16, 期 4, 页码 301-308

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SCIENDO
DOI: 10.2478/ama-2022-0036

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introduction to modelling; extrusion; parameters of the process; biodegradable polymers; polymers; flame retardancy

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This study investigates the effect of polylactide (PLA) grain size on the efficiency of the twin-screw extrusion process and flame retardancy properties of composite materials. Experimental results demonstrate that the choice of starting material significantly impacts both extrusion efficiency and flame retardancy.
Co-rotating twin-screw extrusion is an energy consuming process that is generally not fully optimised to a specific polymer. From the point of view of the efficiency of the extrusion process, the starting material should be characterised by small grain sizes in comparison to the screw channel area, small surface area to volume ratio and small internal friction between the pellets. To develop a model describing the effect of polylactide (PLA) grain size on the extrusion efficiency, a series of experiments with a twin-screw extruder were carried out during which the energy consumption; torque on shafts and temperature of the melt on the extruder die were monitored. As feed material, both the neat PLA with different grain sizes and the PLA with expandable graphite fillers and phosphorous-based flame retardants were used. Morphology and dispersion quality of the composites were examined using scanning electron microscopy (SEM); flammability, smoke production, mass loss and heat release rates were tested using cone calorimetry; and melt flow rate was determine using a plastometer. Moreover, the thermal properties of the obtained composites were determined using differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The results show that the choice of the starting material affects both the efficiency of the extrusion process and the flame retardancy properties of the composite materials.

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