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Compounding, Rheology and Numerical Simulation of Highly Filled Graphite Compounds for Potential Fuel Cell Applications
| العنوان: | Compounding, Rheology and Numerical Simulation of Highly Filled Graphite Compounds for Potential Fuel Cell Applications |
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| المؤلفون: | Alptekin Celik, Fabian Willems, Mustafa Tüzün, Svetlana Marinova, Johannes Heyn, Markus Fiedler, Christian Bonten |
| المصدر: | Polymers, Vol 15, Iss 12, p 2589 (2023) |
| بيانات النشر: | MDPI AG, 2023. |
| سنة النشر: | 2023 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Organic chemistry |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | fuel cell, bipolar plates, compounding, twin-screw extrusion, graphite compound, CFD, Organic chemistry, QD241-441 |
| الوصف: | Highly filled plastics may offer a suitable solution within the production process for bipolar plates. However, the compounding of conductive additives and the homogeneous mixing of the plastic melt, as well as the accurate prediction of the material behavior, pose a major challenge for polymer engineers. To support the engineering design process of compounding by twin-screw extruders, this present study offers a method to evaluate the achievable mixing quality based on numerical flow simulations. For this purpose, graphite compounds with a filling content of up to 87 wt.-% were successfully produced and characterized rheologically. Based on a particle tracking method, improved element configurations were found for twin-screw compounding. Furthermore, a method to characterize the wall slip ratios of the compounded material system with different filler content is presented, since highly filled material systems often tend to wall slip during processing, which could have a very large influence on accurate prediction. Numerical simulations of the high capillary rheometer were conducted to predict the pressure loss in the capillary. The simulation results show a good agreement and were experimentally validated. In contrast to the expectation, higher filler grades showed only a lower wall slip than compounds with a low graphite content. Despite occurring wall slip effects, the developed flow simulation for the design of slit dies can provide a good prediction for both low and high filling ratios of the graphite compounds. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2073-4360 99377373 |
| Relation: | https://www.mdpi.com/2073-4360/15/12/2589; https://doaj.org/toc/2073-4360 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/polym15122589 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/1ef1cb50d28644aa99377373e10a9815 |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsdoj.1ef1cb50d28644aa99377373e10a9815 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20734360 99377373 |
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| DOI: | 10.3390/polym15122589 |