Film Plastic Agglomeration, plastic granules from films
extrusion
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Operation of a commercial style agglomeration machine
Created 1yCreated over 1 year ago
Here a man is explaining in Spanish how he converts PE bags into granules. It appears that the entire cycle time for him is 16 min to process that large tub.
I do not know the HP he has in the machine or the blade type and RPM.
However it was interesting that he did not add water like the machine operators from China. He also described the plastic turning into a sort of dough. Which I experienced in the operation of my machine. It would run and then over the course of about 30 seconds start to hit the agglomeration point, and turn into a dough. this operator then dumped in a portion of the previous batch of granules, which absorbed the heat, and then the big chunks of now semi solidified material would get chopped up in granules in the machine. Which I did, and got a similar result using shredded foil multi layer plastics.
However my machine at this point on the best run so far, lost the key on the shafting, and the pulley spun. Shafting is out for repair