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Understanding Extrusion

  • 1st Edition - December 4, 2018
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Chris Rauwendaal
  • Language: English

Understanding Extrusion presents core information on extrusion technology and is accessible to academics in the field of polymer manufacture and design, as well as professio… Read more

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Description

Understanding Extrusion presents core information on extrusion technology and is accessible to academics in the field of polymer manufacture and design, as well as professionals without an engineering degree.

Written for extruder operators, supervisors, and technical service professionals, but also for newcomers to the industry and students, it introduces the process, the machinery and general information on process control, materials, and troubleshooting.

Key features

  • From the leading author and expert in the field of polymer extrusion
  • Intermediate-level book covering the most important aspects of the field
  • Covers materials, extruder types, the process, screws, dies, drives, instrumentation, control, and extrusion lines

Readership

Students in polymer processing courses; people entering the plastics manufacturing industry; practicing engineers

Table of contents

1. Extrusion Machinery. Instrumentation and Control2. Complete Extrusion Lines3. Plastics and Their Properties Important in Extrusion4. How an Extruder Works5. How to Run an Extruder6. How to Troubleshoot Extrusion Problems7. New Developments in Extrusion and Methods to Increase Efficiency

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: December 4, 2018
  • Language: English

About the author

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Chris Rauwendaal

Chris Rauwendaal, president of Rauwendaal Extrusion Engineering, Inc., (REE, Inc), has experience in a wide range of extrusion operations, including fiber spinning, film, sheet, tubing, medical tubing, pipe, and profile extrusion, co-extrusion, and reactive extrusion. Rauwendaal holds several patents in the field of polymer processing. He has worked on both practical and theoretical problems, such as screw-and-die design, trouble shooting, modeling and computer simulation, material analysis, and failure analysis.

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