Projeto e fabricação de extrusora monorrosca com matriz de extrusão filamentar

Abstract

Large industrial establishments are always looking for increasingly sophisticated technologies to monitor manufacturing processes. This work aims to design and build a laboratory single-screw extruder and its extrusion die for processing polymers and polymer composites, in addition to enabling studies in the area of mechanical recycling of polymers. The first stage of the work involved choosing the type of extruder to be manufactured. The second stage consisted of dimensioning and designing the equipment using Solidworks software. In the third stage, the types of materials and mechanical and electrical components for assembling the extruder were selected. In the fourth stage, the manufacturing processes of the extruder and assembly of the mechanical and electrical components were carried out. In the fifth stage, the equipment was validated, where temperature and mass flow tests were performed, in addition to mechanical and electrical tests in the processing of a thermoplastic polymer, which, in this case, was polypropylene (PP). The last stage consisted of simulating a die with a cylindrical profile, aiming to study the characteristics of the polymer melt flow and define how the die structure should be adjusted to obtain the desired diameter. After designing the die in Solidworks software, a simulation was performed in Ansys software. In this case, the rheological behavior of the melt as it passed through the die was studied through the simulation, analyzing in which part of it the high and/or low shear rates are observed when the polymer flows through it. The drag flow and pressure flow were then extracted from the simulation parameters, which led to the calculation of the operating point and operating pressure for the die. It was also possible to calculate the mass flow rate and the velocity drop at the die wall, in addition to optimizing the die profile for the circular shape and desired diameter.