China Plastics ›› 2009, Vol. 23 ›› Issue (02): 93-97 .DOI: 10.19491/j.issn.1001-9278.2009.02.021

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Statistical Analysis on Mixing Process of Two-rotor Continuous Mixer

ING Jun-tao,XIE Lin-sheng,MA Yu-lu,LIU De-li,LU Ya-yun   

  1. School of Mechanical and Power Engineering,East China University of Science and Technology,Shanghai 200237,China
  • Received:2008-10-16 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2009-02-26 Published:2009-02-26

Abstract: Statistical analysis was performed on the mixing process of polymer melts in a two-rotor continuous mixer using Polyflow software. Based on the 3-D isothermal time-dependent flow fields calculated at different rotational angles of rotors, dynamic mixing processes of polymer melts in the two-rotor continuous mixer were simulated through particle tracking analysis (PTA). By statistical treatment of 1000 particle trajectories, the resident time distribution, cumulative max-shear-stress distribution, and percentage of shear stress as a function of time were obtained. Furthermore,the influences of these parameters to the mixing performance in a two-rotor continuous mixer were analyzed.

Key words: two-rotor continuous mixer, numerical simulation, statistical analysis, particle tracking analysis.