A Polymer Process Engineering & Training Company Home of the CRD Mixing Screws
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May 6-7, 2013
Sheraton Sand Key Resort
Clearwater Beach, FL
Phone: 727-595-1611
by Chris Rauwendaal
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About the Seminar
The seminar covers extrusion theory and teaches how theory can be applied to solve real extrusion problems and to optimize the process. Equipment issues and polymer properties will be covered. Extruder functions and quantitative analysis will be discussed in detail. This will be applied to screw and die design and to troubleshooting. Attendees will learn to calculate solids conveying rate, melting rate, pumping rate, diehead pressure, onset of melt fracture, temperature by viscous dissipation, etc. Attendees will be expected to answer a number of homework questions between the first and second day. These questions will be discussed the second day.
Who Should Attend this Seminar
This is designed for technical personnel who want to develop a better understanding of extrusion and learn to perform quantitative analyses and calculations. People that teach extrusion within their company will benefit from this seminar. Technical service personnel will be better equipped to advice customers and solve extrusion problems. This seminar is not recommended for people without an engineering degree.
Advanced Extrusion Seminar Testimonials
Seminar Hours, Cancellation Policy, Location and Accomodations
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Course Description
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Introduction
Hardware components of an extruder
Polymer properties
Functional analysis of extrusion process
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Course Description (continued)
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*Screw design
Troubleshooting extruders
Wear
Degradation Segregation
Die Design
Sheet and flat film dies Blown film dies Pipe and tubing dies Profile dies
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About the Instructor:
Dr. Chris Rauwendaal has been a top seminar instructor for more than 30 years. He has taught with SPE, UWM & UC Berkeley & teaches many in-house courses. He is a well known plastics author. Chris has 35+ years experience in the plastics industry. His experience is in a wide range of extrusion operations, including fiber spinning, film, sheet, tubing, medical tubing & profile extrusion, coextrusion, and reactive extrusion. He has worked on both practical and theoretical problems such as screw & die design, troubleshooting, modeling and computer simulation, material analysis, failure analysis, etc. Chris has authored 6 books on extrusion and related fields.
Since 1990 he has been President of Rauwendaal Extrusion Engineering, Inc., a company that provides custom extruder screws and other extrusion hardware, training programs, engineering & expert witness services to the plastic industry. With screw design as his specialty, over the past 5 years REE had developed patented technologies in the following areas:
• Elongational Mixing Devices
• Mixing non-return valves
• Single screw compounding extruder
• Cooling screws for foam extrusion
For registration contact: chris@rauwendaal.com
For seminar content contact: chris@rauwendaal.com