Principles of Polymer Processing

Thoroughly revised edition of the classic text on polymer processing

The Second Edition brings the classic text on polymer processing thoroughly up to date with the latest fundamental developments in polymer processing, while retaining the critically acclaimed approach of the First Edition. Readers are provided with the complete panorama of polymer processing, starting with fundamental concepts through the latest current industry practices and future directions. All the chapters have been revised and updated, and four new chapters have been added to introduce the latest developments.

Readers familiar with the First Edition will discover a host of new material, including:

• Blend and alloy microstructuring

• Twin screw-based melting and chaotic mixing mechanisms

• Reactive processing

• Devolatilization--theory, mechanisms, and industrial practice

• Compounding--theory and industrial practice

• The increasingly important role of computational fluid mechanics

• A systematic approach to machine configuration design

The Second Edition expands on the unique approach that distinguishes it from comparative texts. Rather than focus on specific processing methods, the authors assert that polymers have a similar experience in any processing machine and that these experiences can be described by a set of elementary processing steps that prepare the polymer for any of the shaping methods. On the other hand, the authors do emphasize the unique features of particular polymer processing methods and machines, including the particular elementary step and shaping mechanisms and geometrical solutions.

Replete with problem sets and a solutions manual for instructors, this textbook is recommended for undergraduate and graduate students in chemical engineering and polymer and materials engineering and science. It will also prove invaluable for industry professionals as a fundamental polymer processing analysis and synthesis reference.

Autorentext
ZEHEV TADMOR, DSc, is Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering and President Emeritus of TechnionIsrael Institute of Technology. He is member of the Israeli Academy of Science and Humanities, a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering (U.S.A.), and the Chairman of the Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, Technion. COSTAS G. GOGOS, PhD, is Distinguished Research Professor in the Otto York Chemical Engineering Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Chemical Engineering Professor Emeritus, Stevens Institute of Technology. He is also Chairman of the Board and President Emeritus of the Polymer Processing Institute.

Klappentext
Thoroughly revised edition of the classic text on polymer processing The Second Edition brings the classic text on polymer processing thoroughly up to date with the latest fundamental developments in polymer processing, while retaining the critically acclaimed approach of the First Edition. Readers are provided with the complete panorama of polymer processing, starting with fundamental concepts through the latest current industry practices and future directions. All the chapters have been revised and updated, and four new chapters have been added to introduce the latest developments.

Readers familiar with the First Edition will discover a host of new material, including:

• Blend and alloy microstructuring
• Twin screw-based melting and chaotic mixing mechanisms
• Reactive processing
• Devolatilizationtheory, mechanisms, and industrial practice
• Compoundingtheory and industrial practice
• The increasingly important role of computational fluid mechanics
• A systematic approach to machine configuration design
  The Second Edition expands on the unique approach that distinguishes it from comparative texts. Rather than focus on specific processing methods, the authors assert that polymers have a similar experience in any processing machine and that these experiences can be described by a set of elementary processing steps that prepare the polymer for any of the shaping methods. On the other hand, the authors do emphasize the unique features of particular polymer processing methods and machines, including the particular elementary step and shaping mechanisms and geometrical solutions.

Replete with problem sets and a solutions manual for instructors, this textbook is recommended for undergraduate and graduate students in chemical engineering and polymer and materials engineering and science. It will also prove invaluable for industry professionals as a fundamental polymer processing analysis and synthesis reference.

Zusammenfassung
Thoroughly revised edition of the classic text on polymer processing

The Second Edition brings the classic text on polymer processing thoroughly up to date with the latest fundamental developments in polymer processing, while retaining the critically acclaimed approach of the First Edition. Readers are provided with the complete panorama of polymer processing, starting with fundamental concepts through the latest current industry practices and future directions. All the chapters have been revised and updated, and four new chapters have been added to introduce the latest developments.

Readers familiar with the First Edition will discover a host of new material, including:

• Blend and alloy microstructuring
• Twin screw-based melting and chaotic mixing mechanisms
• Reactive processing
• Devolatilization--theory, mechanisms, and industrial practice
• Compounding--theory and industrial practice
• The increasingly important role of computational fluid mechanics

• A systematic approach to machine configuration design

  The Second Edition expands on the unique approach that distinguishes it from comparative texts. Rather than focus on specific processing methods, the authors assert that polymers have a similar experience in any processing machine and that these experiences can be described by a set of elementary processing steps that prepare the polymer for any of the shaping methods. On the other hand, the authors do emphasize the unique features of particular polymer processing methods and machines, including the particular elementary step and shaping mechanisms and geometrical solutions.

  Replete with problem sets and a solutions manual for instructors, this textbook is recommended for undergraduate and graduate students in chemical engineering and polymer and materials engineering and science. It will also prove invaluable for industry professionals as a fundamental polymer processing analysis and synthesis reference.

Inhalt

1 History Structural Formulation of the Field Through Elementary Steps and Future Perspectives 1

1.1 Historical Notes 1

1.2 Current Polymer Processing Practice 7

1.3 Analysis of Polymer Processing in Terms of Elementary Steps and Shaping Methods 14

1.4 Future Perspectives: From Polymer Processing to Macromolecular Engineering 18

2 The Balance Equations and Newtonian Fluid Dynamics 25

2.1 Introduction 25

2.2 The Balance Equations 26

2.3 Reynolds Transport Theorem 26

2.4 The Macroscopic Mass Balance and the Equation of Continuity 28

2.5 The Macroscopic Linear Momentum Balance and the Equation of Motion 32

2.6 The Stress Tensor 37

2.7 The Rate of Strain Tensor 40

2.8 Newtonian Fluids 43

2.9 The Macroscopic Energy Balance and the Bernoulli and Thermal Energy Equations 54

2.10 Mass Transport in Binary Mixtures and the Diffusion Equation 60

2.11 Mathematical Modeling Common Boundary Conditions Common Simplifying Assumptions and the Lubrication Approximation 60

3 Polymer Rheology and Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 79

3.1 Rheological Behavior Rheometry and Rheological Material Functions of Polymer Melts 80

3.2 Experimental Determination of the…