Improve Plastic Performance

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  • Prize: $310
  • Entries Received: 226

Contest Brief

I want to thank all of you that have provided an entry into the contest. There are many very interesting logos. In reading over my original project description I noticed that it might be to technical, so I will attempt to make the scope of the project more down to earth.

The product that we will be selling has 2 main benefits. #1 it is an coolant material, like water used to cool equipment in plastic processing primarily in extrusion equipment where the coolant runs through a copper line imbedded in a metal casting that wraps around the long barrel of the extrusion screws. The #2 benefits that our product brings to the picture is that the coolant does not corrode the metals that the coolant touches eliminating leaks and cracks in the cooling lines.

This same set of benefits is also used in the thermoforming tooling, #1 as a coolant and #2 anti-corrosive materials to allow the tools to have an unlimited life without cracks and leaking. So that's it is a nutshell, I am hoping that this additional information may provide a spark of clarity. Once again thank you for your contribution. Have a wonderful day!

IN THE OPERATION of water-cooled extrusion equipment, severe system corrosion, mineral scale deposition and water passage fouling can, and often does, occur. While the use of soft and high purity waters as the cooling medium reduces scale deposition, the aggressive nature of these waters at elevated temperatures and variations in their purity both contribute to premature component corrosion and failure.

Ideally, once optimum extruder zone temperatures are achieved, the extrusion process should proceed adiabatically. However, in actual applications frequent cycles of heat input and heat dissipation are required in order to maintain optimum barrel zone temperatures. Heat input is achieved electrically through imbedded heating elements in the barrel zone heater/cooler. Cooling is achieved by the entry of cooling water into small diameter coils also imbedded in the zone 'saddle' castings.

At zone temperatures as high as ~600°F, cooling is not achieved in a conventional water/heat transfer model, but rather through the evaporation of a small quantity of water that is regulated into the heater/cooler from an inlet manifold. Because virtually all of the cooling is achieved by evaporation in the zone heater/cooler, properly engineered waters® are vital for continuous and trouble-free system operation.

Improve Plastic Performance initially entered the Water-Cooled Extrusion Industry through the use of CH-7:54® Industrial Cleaner as a non-hazardous chemical descaler in the cleaning of barrel cooling water systems in chemical manufacturing facilities. Upon completion of the cleaning and descaling procedure the extrusion cooling water systems were maintained with a high purity water-based blend of organic corrosion inhibitors.

Extruder Maintenance Programs utilizing CH-7:54 Industrial Cleaner and Extrusion Performance Fluids® have been successfully extended into the Plastics Industry.

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