TY - BOOK
T1 - Replacing fossil-based foams with (potato) carbohydrate based foams
AU - de Beukelaer, Herman
AU - Chu, Sharon
AU - Esposito, Claudio
AU - Hilhorst, Marieke
AU - Alvarado Chacon, Fresia
N1 - Project number VerPAK TIND121009
Includes bibliographical references and conclusions
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Foaming of polymeric materials requires a delicate balance between raw materials, blowing agents and equipment. They have an important effect on the end properties of the product. During this project, the behavior of the raw materials based on starch/fibers mixtures and water as blowing agent was investigated by means of offline rheological measurements, providing data for process development. -Furthermore, three essential parts of equipment were investigated: 1) the extruder, 2) melt cooling and mixing systems, and 3) die plates. Equipment with specific requirements is needed to get to a stable extrusion foaming process using water as blowing agent. A continuous process generating foamed profiles with different cross sectional shapes could be obtained. A sketch of the process is shown below.
AB - Foaming of polymeric materials requires a delicate balance between raw materials, blowing agents and equipment. They have an important effect on the end properties of the product. During this project, the behavior of the raw materials based on starch/fibers mixtures and water as blowing agent was investigated by means of offline rheological measurements, providing data for process development. -Furthermore, three essential parts of equipment were investigated: 1) the extruder, 2) melt cooling and mixing systems, and 3) die plates. Equipment with specific requirements is needed to get to a stable extrusion foaming process using water as blowing agent. A continuous process generating foamed profiles with different cross sectional shapes could be obtained. A sketch of the process is shown below.
UR - https://edepot.wur.nl/657298
U2 - 10.18174/657298
DO - 10.18174/657298
M3 - Report
T3 - Report / Wageningen Food & Biobased Research
BT - Replacing fossil-based foams with (potato) carbohydrate based foams
PB - Wageningen Environmental Research
CY - Wageningen
ER -