Plastics

In the plastics manufacturing the number of different products and processes is manifold. Polymerization or polycondensation processes follow different mechanisms. They might run batchwise or continuously. For this vast range of applications EKATO can help to find out the mixing requirements in order to find an optimum mixing solution. A fundamental challenge associated with the manufacture of polymers and plastics is the removal of the heat of reaction. At the start of polymerization, heat removal is simple because the initially formed oligomers have a low viscosity owing to their small degree of polymerization. As the reaction proceeds, the viscosity of the polymers may dramatically increase over time. Barriers to heat and material transport develop. Control of these by mixing is crucial in order to obtain particular polymer grades.