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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank my professors Dr. Harold Hughes and Dr. Laura Bix of the School of Packaging, and Dr. Dennis Gilliland of the Department of Statistics and Probability for their support and contributions to this research. I would like to thank all of my fellow grad students for their support and help in my studies, especially Napawan Kositruangchai and Krittika Tanprasert for their help training me on the testing equipment. Thank you, most of all, for your friendship. Thank you to my family and friends outside for your support and patience; these things are often most valuable. Thank you to the companies and individuals who contributed and donated supplies for my research: Donation of Fasti Equipment: Barry Pucillo and Rainier Farrig, FastiUSA Elgin, IL Donation of Blow Pin Machining: Jim Vassar, Fidelity Tool Addison, IL Donation of Cutting Ring Machining: Don Maines, Triad Precision Products Thomasville, NC Donation of Programming and Labor for Machine Programming: Everyone at Bekum America Williamston, MI iv
TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES ................................................................................................vii LIST OF FIGURES .............................................................................................viii KEY TO SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS........................................................ x 1 – INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REVIEW ............................................. 1 1.1 Need for Development ............................................................................... 1 1.2 Extrusion Blow Molding .............................................................................. 2 1.2.1 Process............................................................................................... 2 1.3 Fasti System .............................................................................................. 8 1.3.1 Recirculating blow pin ......................................................................... 8 1.3.2 Cooling system ................................................................................. 10 1.3.3 Costs................................................................................................. 11 1.3.5 Installation......................................................................................... 12 1.3.4 Efficiency........................................................................................... 14 1.4 Objective .................................................................................................. 14 1.4.1 Crystallinity........................................................................................ 14 1.4.2 Wall thickness ................................................................................... 17 1.4.3 Dimensionality................................................................................... 17 1.5 Hypothesis ............................................................................................... 17 1.6 Statistical Methods ................................................................................... 18 2 – EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND TEST METHODS...................................... 19 2.1 Materials and Setup ................................................................................. 19 2.1.1 Conventional Air Setup ..................................................................... 19 2.1.2 Fasti Cold Air Setup .......................................................................... 20 2.1.3 Controls (Constants) ......................................................................... 22 2.2 Experimental Methods.............................................................................. 23 2.2.1 Sampling ........................................................................................... 23 2.2.2 Conditioning ...................................................................................... 24 2.2.3 Dimensional ...................................................................................... 25 2.2.4 Compression Testing ........................................................................ 28 2.2.5 Differential Scanning Calorimetry...................................................... 31 3 – DATA AND RESULTS.................................................................................. 35 3.1 Cycle time improvements ......................................................................... 35 3.2 Dimensionality.......................................................................................... 35 3.3 Compression Strength.............................................................................. 39 3.4 Crystallinity............................................................................................... 40 v
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Page 7 and 8: LIST OF TABLES Table 1. Fasti Cost
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Page 11 and 12: 1 - INTRODUCTION AND LITERATURE REV
Page 13 and 14: The process of extrusion blow moldi
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Page 17 and 18: Internal cooling is the process of
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Page 21 and 22: 1.3.3 Costs Total cost of the unit
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Page 25 and 26: Table 2. Effect of Decreased Crysta
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wall thickness. Compression strengt
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performance tests. It would be desi
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5.8 Optical Microscopy Optical micr
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51 APPENDIX A Dimensional Results T
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53 Table 15. Dimensional Test Resul
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Figure 18. Conventional Wall Thickn
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Figure 22. Fasti Wall Thickness 2 0
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Table 18. Compression Test Results
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Bekum Blow Molder Operating Instruc
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a) “SP1”(set point one) tempera
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i) Only one function may be used at
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) Use Screwdriver to turn catch abo
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Figure 25. Detail 01 - Adaptor 69
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Figure 27. Detail 03 - Cooling Slee
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Figure 29. Detail 05 - Tip 73
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APPENDIX E Fasti Setup Experiment E
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Data Analysis Figures 31, 32, and 3
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Figure 31. Main Effects Plot for Fa
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BIBLIOGRAPHY ASTM Standard D2463-95
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