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Polymer Processing Machinery

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Prerequisites:

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Lectures	Exercises	Laboratory exercises	Project laboratory	Physical education excercises	Field exercises	Seminar	Design exercises	Practicum
30		0	0	0	0	30	0	0

Course objectives:

Familiarize the students with main processes and systems (machines and equipment) for polymer products production.

Student responsibilities:

Grading and evaluation of student work over the course of instruction and at a final exam:

Checking of knowledge through colloquium and final exam.

Methods of monitoring quality that ensure acquisition of exit competences:

Recording of attending lectures and active participation of students in discussions during lectures. Continuous monitoring of consultations during learning.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to (learning outcomes):

After a successful completion of the course, a student will be able to: -evaluiate and rank procedures of polymer processing -select basic equipment (machines) for each process of polymer processing -estimate the specificity of machines for each process of polymer processing -compare function of different machines of the same type of polymer processing -etimate the influence of each process of polymer processing on environment

Lectures

1. Introduction to polymer processing.

2. Properties of polymer materials.

3. Calenders.

4. Extruders.

5. Presses.

6. Hydraulic injection moulding machines.

7. Hybrid injection moulding machines.

8. Electric injection moulding machines.

9. Thermoforming machines.

10. Blow moulding machines.

11. Pultrusion machines.

12. Winding machines.

13. Rotational moulding machines.

14. Foaming machines.

15. Equipment for reinforced parts.

Exercises

1. Introduction to polymer processing.

2. Identification of polymer materials.

3. Numerical exercises.

4. Extrusion.

5. Visit to extrusion plant.

6. Calendering.

7. Visit to calandering plant.

8. Injection moulding.

9. Visit to injection moulding plant.

10. Blow moulding.

11. Visit to blow moulding plant.

12. Thermoforming.

13. Visit to thermoforming plant.

14. Foaming.

15. Visit to foaming plant.

Compulsory literature:

I. Čatić, Uvod u proizvodnju polimernih tvorevina, DPIG, Zagreb, 1990.
F. Johannaber: Kunststoff Maschinen Fuehrer, Carl Hanser Verlag, Muenchen, Wien, 1992.

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