A silicone extrusion plant has a silicone extruder and a silicone feed device configured to load the silicone extruder. The silicone feed device has a feed hopper. The feed hopper opens into a feed opening at the bottom thereof. The feed opening is in a fluidic connection, via a feed duct, with an inlet zone of the silicone extruder. A feed screw arranged in the feed hopper in such a way as to be drivable for rotation protrudes into the feed opening at least partly. The feed screw has a cone portion and a cylinder portion. According to another aspect, the silicone extrusion plant has at least one feed pressure sensor configured to measure an actual feed pressure of silicone material to be extruded. A control unit is in a signal communication with the feed pressure sensor and a feed drive device in order to drive the silicone feed device.

Disclosed are a system and method tuning PET raw material processing process by employing real time process management and machine learning steps and reactive addition of dosing of homogenizing composition for impregnating chain extenders and compatibilizing agents in thermoplastic resin using the liquid additive as a carrier into the process for modifying material performance. The properties of PET blend are no longer fixed once dry-blending and melting is complete.

Polymer additive(s) are injected into molten polymer upstream of the hopper that feeds a molten mix of polymer with incorporated polymer additive(s) to a polymer extruder. Additive incorporation into the molten polymer is facilitated by an inlet device positioned inside the hopper, where the inlet device is configured to: i) receive a feed stream comprising a molten polymer, a liquid diluent, a polymer additive, and unreacted monomer, ii) provide one or more solid surfaces for incorporating the polymer additive into the molten polymer, and iii) direct the molten polymer and the polymer additive into the molten polymer pool that is in the hopper.

The invention relates to a monitoring method for monitoring the energy requirement of an extrusion installation (10), comprising the following steps: Setting of a balancing limit (20), in whose balancing space (22) the extrusion installation (10) is assembled, Monitoring of at least one energy flow (30) into the balancing space (22), Monitoring of a feed flow (40) of granules in the extrusion installation (10), Determining the relation between the at least one energy flow (30) and the feed flow (40).

A silicon extrusion plant has a silicon extruder and a silicon feed device configured to load the silicon extruder. The silicon feed device has a feed hopper. The feed hopper opens into a feed opening arranged at the bottom thereof. The feed opening is in a fluidic connection, via a feed duct, with an inlet zone of the silicon extruder. A feed screw arranged in the feed hopper in such a way as to be drivable for rotation protrudes into the feed opening at least partly. The feed screw has a cone portion and a cylinder portion. According to another aspect, the silicon extrusion plant has at least one feed pressure sensor configured to measure an actual feed pressure of silicon material to be extruded. The pressure sensor is arranged in a transition region between the silicon feed device and the silicon extruder. A control unit is in a signal communication with the feed pressure sensor and a feed drive device in order to drive the silicon feed device. The control unit is used to define a nominal feed pressure and to transmit an actuating signal to the feed drive device depending on a difference detected between the nominal feed pressure and the actual feed pressure. As a result, a silicon extruder is obtained that is usable for the mass production of silicon extrudate.