Ali Ayoub, Lucian Lucia, "Biomass Extrusion and Reaction Technologies: Principles to Practices and Future Potential"
English | 2019 | pages: 281 | ISBN: 0841233713 | PDF | 99,0 mb
Reactive extrusion is an environmentally friendly, cost-effective technology that has the potential to enhance the commercial viability of biomass-derived materials. The process can be applied in order to carry out melt blending simultaneously with various chemical reactions including polymerization, grafting, branching, and functionalization. Therefore, production and processing can be integrated in a single stage, thereby reducing or eliminating the need for extensive, high-maintenance equipment. In general, extrusion is being increasingly applied worldwide to manufacture an expanding list of products. During extrusion, product attributes are controlled by feed composition, the length of time the product remains in the extruder, and also the manipulation of specific mechanical or thermal energy inputs as adjusted by many variables such as temperature, moisture, screw configuration, speed, and feed rate. The choice of the extruder type, screw profile, configuration, and