Turbulent air flow field in slot-die melt blowing for manufacturing microfibrous nonwoven materials
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Abstract Melt blowing is an industrial approach for producing microfibrous nonwoven materials utilizing high-speed air to attenuate polymer melt. The melt-blowing air flow field which is widely believed to be turbulence determines the process of fiber formation. In this study, the turbulent air flow field in slot-die melt blowing was experimental measured by hot-wire anemometer. The fluctuations of air velocity and temperature, the mean velocity and mean temperature were measured and analyzed; moreover, the relationship between turbulent air flow field and fiber formation in melt blowing was discussed and predicted. In the last part of this paper, the coupling effect of air temperature and velocity was studied tentatively, results showed that air temperature not only had an enhanced effect on velocity, but contributed to the fluctuation of velocity. This work shows that the fluctuating characteristics of air velocity and temperature have dominant effect on fiber motion and the evenness of fiber diameter.
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OpenAlex topics: Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation · Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications · Textile materials and evaluations
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