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How to reduce energy consumption on pultrusion

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The global warming due to high CO2 emission in the last years has made energy saving a global problem nowadays. However, manufacturing processes such as pultrusion necessarily needs heat for curing the resin. Then, the only option available is to apply all efforts to make the process even more efficient. Different heating systems have been used on pultrusion, however, the most widely used are the planar resistances. The main objective of this study is to develop another heating system and compares it with the former one. Thermography was used in spite of define the temperature profile along the die. FEA (finite element analysis) allows to understand how many energy is spend with the initial heating system. After this first approach, changes were done on the die in order to test the new heating system and to check possible quality problems on the product. Thus, this work allows to conclude that with the new heating system a significant reduction in the setup time is now possible and an energy reduction of about 57% was achieved.

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Pultrusion dies FEA Simulation Heating Systems Energy

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Business Sustainability 2.0 – Management, Technology and Learning for Individuals, Organisations and Society in Turbulent Environments

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Universidade do Minho. Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto

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