predry

predry

(priːˈdraɪ)
vb, -dries, -drying or -dried
to dry or become dry in advance
n
the process of predrying
adj
1. dried in advance or drying in advance
2. happening before drying
3. of or pertaining to the state before drying
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Polyolefin processors molding and extruding products for automotive, medical, and certain other markets sometimes predry materials to remove surface moisture and, in effect, "preheat" or soften the material to facilitate melting.
A laboratory twin-screw extruder, Brabender Model D6/2 was used for blending the predry blended materials.
Immersion or spray rinsing can be followed by an optional hot air predry. After a final vacuum dry to remove any moisture remaining in blind holes, dry air is returned to the treatment chamber.
Beans predry for three days in a shallow, mesh-bottomed tray through a combination of sun and passive air movement.
"We were putting materials in to dry way ahead of time, and on bigger jobs we needed two drying systems to do that: One dryer to predry material and then, of course, a production dryer to keep it dry and running."
The new masterbatches are based on Ampacet's Formula X PET technology platform, which eliminates the need to predry PET colors and allows for feeding at the extruder throat--thus reducing feed-throat clogging and screw slippage, and improving color dispersion.
Molders must predry grades containing conductive fillers that draw moisture into the polymer.
New extrusion technology from Welex Inc., Blue Bell, Pa., gives processors another option to extrude PET and PLA sheet without needing to predry or crystallize the material.