Application of Pareto Local Search and Multi-Objective Ant Colony Algorithms to the Optimization of Co-Rotating Twin Screw Extruders
Cristina Teixeira, José António Covas, Thomas Stützle, António Gaspar‐Cunha · 2009
Co-rotating twin screw extruders are extensively used in the polymer compounding industry mainly due to their good mixing capacity. Given its modular construction, this type of machines can easily be adapted to work with different polymeric systems, e.g., polymer blends, nanocomposites or highly filled polymers. Nevertheless, the performance of these machines is strongly dependent on the screw