Online optical monitoring of polymer melting in a twin-screw extruder

An experimental setup containing a sliding online optical device is used to monitor in real‐time the melting process of a commercial polypropylene in a corotating intermeshing twin‐screw extruder. Turbidity and birefringence are measured at several axial locations upstream and along the first restri...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bicalho, L. (author)
Other Authors: Covas, J. A. (author), Canevarolo, S. V. (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2020
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1822/71796
Country:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/71796