Equipment and Technologies of Plastics and Silicates Processing

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Department of Process Engineering

Synopsis:

Transport, mixing and heat transfer for viscous liquids and pastes. Processing operations and equipment. Design, principles of operation and calculation of key equipment for plastics and silicates processing.

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Syllabus of lectures:

•Introduction. General overview of technologies of plastics and silicates processing.

•Flow and thermo-physical properties of plastics and silicates at different stages of their processing.

•Injection molding – introduction, machines, forms, injection molding of thermoplastics, thermosets and elastomers.

•Blow molding – introduction, foil production, extrusion and injection blow molding, nozzles and molds.

•Fiber spinning – introduction, production technology of industrial fibers, electro-spinning, jets, melt-spinning, dry and wet spinning.

•Production of foam materials – introduction, polystyrene, polyolefin, polyurethane and silicone foams.

•Elastomer processing – introduction, preparation of raw material and mixing, machines and equipment for elastomer processing.

•Flow of power-law liquids in slit. Pumping and pumps for viscous liquids and pastes.

•Screw pump – velocity profile, differential pumping and power characteristic.

•Screw pump – integral isothermal and adiabatic pumping characteristic.

•Differential and integral isothermal and adiabatic characteristic of extrusion die. Operating point.

•Screw conveyor. Mixing – distribution functions for mixers. Mixing devices.

•Convective heat transfer in power-law liquids. Melting.

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Study materials:

•RAO, Natti S. a Nick R. SCHOTT. Understanding plastics engineering calculations. Cincinnati, Ohio: Hanser Publications, 2012.

•CHANDA, Manas a Salil K. ROY. Plastics technology handbook. 4th ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press/Taylor & Francis Group, 2007. Plastics engineering (CRC Press), 72.

•OSSWALD, Tim A. International plastics handbook: the resource for plastics engineers. [1st ed.]. Cincinnati: Hanser, 2006.

•TADMOR Z., GOGOS C.: Principles of polymer processing. J.Wiley 2006.

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