平均塑料处理器在辅助设备和工厂设施中绑有一笔小的财富,通常在工程材料中更多。而且,保持最苛刻客户的长期信任的价值?无价。

If you consider the fact that improper drying can have a negative impact on all of the above, you begin to get the idea that using the right equipment and following the resin suppliers’ recommendations are absolutely critical to staying successful in today’s increasingly challenging marketplace.

There has been a lot of hype about new干衣技术认为有一种更好的方法来干燥材料可能很诱人。据说更快的方法;或声称需要更少的热量输入或使用特殊空气的人。普通的,鲜为人知的事实是,直到某人发明了可行的微波炉,冻干者或其他鲜为人知的方法之前,关于干燥聚合物的某些不可变的事实。这些事实表明,如果您希望这些喜欢水分的聚合物干燥,每个干衣机(并不例外)都需要完成相同的事情:

  • 需要加热以松开聚合物和水分之间的分子键。
  • 必须强迫自由的水分(通过蒸气压差)从聚合物中迁移出来。
  • 必须从塑料颗粒周围的空间中去除水分(通常是通过流过的空气hopper)。

多年来,多年来,多年来,多年来,诸如Covestro,Exxon Mobil,Sabic,Dow,Solvay等公司(例如Covestro,Exxon,Sabic,Dow,Solvay等公司)的生产商,分析了导致其材料最佳干燥的条件。他们对正确的既得利益感兴趣,因为除非正确干燥其昂贵的工程材料,否则他们不会生产出好的最终产品。如果是模具或挤出机无法制作好产品,他们将打电话给树脂公司,询问为什么他们的材料无法执行规格。实际上,这些材料公司会告诉您,关于树脂性能的绝大多数客户投诉都源于不当(并且通常是不完整)的干燥。

当您运行不完全干燥的聚合物时,您可能会在以下一个或多个区域中看到问题:

  • 处理问题。颗粒表面或表面上的高湿度将被过热,并在熔融过程中变成蒸汽。在挤出中,这可能会导致潮汐,吐痰,溅射和泡沫状融化。
  • 美容问题。In injection molding excessive moisture can cause splay and form surface streaks and, in some cases, bubbles in the molded parts. In extrusion control, moisture escaping as steam through the die may cause a rough and scaly surface on the extrudate.
  • 结构和身体问题。即使您的成品没有化妆品缺陷,少量的水分也会导致水解降解,进而可以改变聚合物的融化粘度,分子量和机械强度。这可能是所有最危险的问题,因为它经常用肉眼逃避检测。

显然,导致明显无法接受的产品的塑料处理问题可能会使您的利润干燥。您不仅拥有必须取消的产品(材料,机器时间和人工)的成本,而且还需要不可避免地要解决问题,解决问题(如果可能的话)并重新启动。考虑到需要花费几个小时才能干燥一批新的材料,因此仅在一次事件中,停机时间很容易达到数千美元。

结构和物理问题的成本甚至更高,不仅在生产和拒绝产品方面,而且在客户的善意方面。甚至可能会有法律影响。

Engineered resins, which are most likely to be susceptible to moisture-related problems, are developed to deliver a very specific set of performance properties. And usually a designer has specified them to ensure that certain characteristics — weatherability, paintability, low-temperature impact strength and similar critical properties — are present in the finished product. Chemical changes that result from improperly dried material can compromise those properties. If the problem is identified soon enough, losses may be limited to a few hours production. But if the problem goes undetected until a shipment is delivered to a customer — or, worse yet, until after your customer has assembled his product using your defective products and shipped those products to his customers— thousands or even millions of products may be involved, and the impact can be catastrophic. Just imagine if the application involved personal protection (a football helmet, for instance) or even human health and welfare (in the case of a medical components).

How could such a thing happen? Wouldn’t performance properties and processing parameters be carefully checked before a critical part goes into full production and is shipped to the consumer? Of course, but remember that drying effectiveness can be seasonal. A marginal dryer may perform adequately in the winter when ambient humidity is low, but in the summer, when temperatures and humidity soar, the very same dryer may fall woefully short in preparing the resin properly for processing.

这就是为什么仔细查看树脂干燥机的往绩如此重要的原因。与材料供应商交谈,并询问他们是否使用您打算使用的干衣机进行测试。询问其他材料中其他用户选择的干燥设备,哪些用户遇到了与干燥较差的性能有关的问题。任何干燥机都会不时故障。操作员可以弄乱设置和不幸的材料。但是,这些问题虽然不方便甚至昂贵,但比较了使用干衣机的后果,而干衣机不足以使您为处理昂贵的材料做准备。

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