Comparative Analysis of Fluid Flow and Mixing Characteristics between Three Kinds of Rotor Mixer
The finite element method was used to compare and analyze fluid flow and mixing characteristics between three kinds of rotor mixer, 4WS,4WH and 6WI.The UG software was used to build 3D geometry models. The Gambit software was used to be grid division. And model was used to simulate the flow field of three kinds of internal mixer by BirdCarreau constitutive model and Polyflow software. By comparing the average velocity, the axial velocity and the shear rate, the flow patterns of the three flow fields were obtained. At the same time, the distribution of the mixture of the three parameters was described by using the parameters of the particle index, the average logarithmic stretch index, the probability of the particle index, the average mixing efficiency and the residence time distribution. The simulation results showed that, because of the special variable clearance rotor structure of 6WI rotor mixer, the flow field was more easily changed, and its mixing performance was higher than that of the other two kinds of rotor mixer.
Analysis of Fluid Flow and FluidStructure Interaction Characteristics of Tri-Screw Extruders with Combined Screws
Numerical Simulation of Reaction Process for Preparing PP/TiO2 Nanocomposites in Twin Screw Extruder
The model and numerical simulation of three-dimensional non-isothermal for sol-gel reaction process of preparing PP/TiO2 nanocomposites between mixing and reaction process in twin screw extruder were established by POLYFLOW software with the finite element method. The effects of screw speed, screw pitch and precursor concentration on the preparation of PP/TiO2 nanocomposites reaction process about mixing efficiency and reaction rate were analyzed. The results showed that the increasing pitch which enhanced the temperature of polymer and improved mixing efficiency in twin screw extruder contributes to the reaction process. The increasing screw speed and precursor concentration were not conducive to the reaction, because of the drop of the fractional conversion.