Design of manufacturing process and production line for expanded graphite
Karuppannan Gopalraj, Sankar (2018)
Diplomityö
Karuppannan Gopalraj, Sankar
2018
Julkaisun pysyvä osoite on
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2018042518472
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi-fe2018042518472
Tiivistelmä
Expanded graphite is one among the widely growing industry in graphite application. Most of the research carried in this field are industrial based and patented to commercialize them. The expanded graphite has a number of applications which results in the market demand. Even though there is a huge demand in the market, the number of producers of expanded graphite are less compared to the market demand. This is due to the patents made by the leading expanded graphite producers.
This research work gives a detail description of designing a manufacturing process for expanded graphite based on the observation from patents and design a continuous production line for the manufacturing process. The report covers two important part of the research, overall patent analysis and investigation on eight raw materials from different company. From the patent analysis the design for manufacturing expanded graphite is completed with a line production design and with the analysis from the laboratory experiment the best suitable raw material is selected. Based on the overall result, a manufacturing process to expand exfoliated graphite is designed and a sample workstation with 50 m X 20 m is considered to establish a model line production. Also among all the eight samples, product name 9580300 TKL-2 with company Qingdao Xinghe Graphite co., Ltd is selected based on the density analysis.
This research work gives a detail description of designing a manufacturing process for expanded graphite based on the observation from patents and design a continuous production line for the manufacturing process. The report covers two important part of the research, overall patent analysis and investigation on eight raw materials from different company. From the patent analysis the design for manufacturing expanded graphite is completed with a line production design and with the analysis from the laboratory experiment the best suitable raw material is selected. Based on the overall result, a manufacturing process to expand exfoliated graphite is designed and a sample workstation with 50 m X 20 m is considered to establish a model line production. Also among all the eight samples, product name 9580300 TKL-2 with company Qingdao Xinghe Graphite co., Ltd is selected based on the density analysis.