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Published on: September 26, 2016
In situ Pressure Fluctuations of Polymer Melt Flow Instabilities: Experimental Evidence about their Origin and
Humberto Palza1, Ingo F C Naue, Manfred Wilhelm
1Institut für Technische Chemie und Polymerchemie, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Engesserstrasse 18, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany; Departamento de Ingenieria Quimica y Biotecnologia, Facultad de Ciencias Fisicas y Matematicas, Universidad de Chile and Centro para la Investigacion Interdisciplinaria Avanzada en Ciencia de los Materiales (CIMAT), Beauchef 861, Casilla 277, Santiago, Chile. hpalza@ing.uchile.cl.
Abstract:
Despite the practical importance of polymer melt instabilities, there is still a lack of experiments able to characterize in situ the origin and behavior of these phenomena. In this context, a new set-up consisting of high sensitive pressure transducers located inside a slit-die and an advanced mathematical framework to process in situ measurements of polymer melt instabilities, are developed and applied. Our results show for the first time that pressure oscillations can actually be detected inside the die under sharkskin conditions. This originates from a factor of 10(3) and 10(2) improvement in terms of time and pressure resolution. Furthermore, new evidence towards the propagation of the slip phenomena along the die in spurt instabilities are found.
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