The technical center of the IKK has received a new permanent loan: The FED 26 MTS extruder from Feddem GmbH & Co. KG was handed over last week.
This system is more than just an industrial extrusion system, this extruder is a “research device”: the twin-screw extruder works without kneading elements, which are usually used to melt and mix materials. The aim is to achieve particularly gentle melting. At the same time, new hardware solutions have been implemented in the design of the device to ensure the most energy-efficient operation possible.
In addition, the FED 26 MTS is equipped with a special energy recording system that records the respective energy consumption of individual system components. This includes, for example, the heating or cooling energy of each individual housing element. The consumption data is visualized directly during the process and also uploaded to a cloud.
“Energy efficiency is also becoming an increasingly important economic factor in the plastics industry and I am therefore extremely pleased”, says Hans-Josef Endres, “that we now have access to a research system that we helped design, which enables us to record, understand and thus optimize energy flows in a time- and location-resolved manner, i. e. locally for the corresponding consumers. In terms of energy management and temperature control, I still see great potential for more energy-efficient compounding, which has been very much neglected to date. My special thanks go to Mr. Groß and Feddem, who made this collaboration possible.”
Another special feature of this system is that the length of the extruder and the screws can be changed using easily adaptable units. If necessary, the structure and process length can be easily adapted to the respective process by adding modules.
