Improved Wear Monitoring in Diverse Polymer Applications

改进各种聚合物应用中的磨损监测

• 批准号: 10062249
• 金额: $ 2.83万
• 依托单位: TRIBOSONICS LTD
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Collaborative R&D
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10062249
• 关键词: Improved; Wear; Monitoring; Diverse; Polymer

Tribosonics Ltd develops novel measurement technologies for a range of industrial markets and applications and has launched and is supplying into the plastics and polymer sensing market, a measurement service called polymerSENSE(TM) to the plastics and polymer sensing market. The measurement is supplied as a service (SAAS -- Sensing-As-A-Service) to monitor injection moulding and extrusion equipment, in particular the wear of screws and barrels.When the screw & barrel are new there is a clearance gap of the order of 0.1mm between the screw & barrel. Over time the screw wears (the screw typically wears an order of magnitude faster than the barrel) with several negative outcomes:1\. The efficiency of the system reduces resulting in a decrease in the output from the equipment and thus lower productivity and profitability. Some polymer processors increase the rotational speed of the screw to increase the polymer throughput, but this results in an increase in energy use, impacting profitability and product quality.2\. The quality of the resultant polymer product reduces because of the increase in shearing in the gap between the screw and the barrel. This leads to an increase in scrap from worn barrel/screw assemblies and a decrease in profit.There are a large number of variables that affect the measurement (temperature, polymer material, frequency of transducer, size of transducer, thickness of barrel, width of flight on screw, shape of screw tip, measurement speed, etc).This project is focused on scaling this technology and expanding its uptake within the polymer processing industry. Tribosonics will work with the Newton Gateway to reduce the time and resource needed to process the received signals into robust measurements of wear.

Tribosonics Ltd开发了针对一系列工业市场和应用的新型测量技术，并已推出并正在向塑料和聚合物传感市场提供，这是一种称为聚合物（TM）的测量服务，以塑料和聚合物传感市场。该测量值作为服务（SaaS-As-a-A-Service）提供，以监视注射成型和挤出设备，特别是螺钉和枪管的磨损。螺钉和桶的新建是新的，在螺钉和桶之间有0.1mm的间隙。随着时间的流逝，螺钉的磨损（螺钉通常比枪管快的数量级），并带有几个负结果：1 \。系统的效率降低了设备的产出降低，从而降低了生产率和盈利能力。一些聚合物处理器增加了螺钉的旋转速度以增加聚合物吞吐量，但这会增加能源使用的增加，从而影响盈利能力和产品质量。2\。由于螺钉和枪管之间的间隙中剪切的增加，所得聚合物产物的质量会降低。这导致磨损桶/螺丝组件的废料增加和利润下降。有大量影响测量值的变量（温度，聚合物材料，换能器的频率，换能器的频率，频率的频率，枪管厚度，桶形厚度，飞行宽度，螺钉上的飞行，螺钉尖端的形状，螺钉尖端，测量速度等）是在整个过程中的范围。 Tribosonics将与牛顿门户合作，以​​减少将接收信号处理为耐磨度衡量的时间和资源。