Polymer Processing Instabilities: Control and Understanding

The topics covered in this book offers both fundamental and practical understanding on various flows that occur during the processing of polymer melts where instabilities pose a serious limitation in the rate of production exclude extrusion and co-extrusion, blow molding, film blowing, film casting, and injection molding. The book is unique in that it fills a gap in the polymer processing literature where polymer flow instabilities are not treated in-depth in any book and summarizes the data collected, particularly over the last ten years. Polymer Processing Instabilities covers commodity polymers that are processed as melts at temperatures above their melting point or as concentrated solutions at lower temperatures.