Confirmation of the experimentally measured cooling time of Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) melt by ANSYS and FORTRAN

Abstract

This study deals with confirmation of the experimentally measured cooling/solidification time of the Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) melt by ANSYS and FORTRAN analysis programs. Therefore, a new code was written and run by using FORTRAN programming. With the ANSYS Thermal Transient module, cooling time and the injection conditions of PET into a cylindrical mold were simulated. Then, the experimental results and the analysis data were compared. It was determined that the results are in good agreement (100%) in case of heat capacity (Cp) value is chosen depending on the temperature. The results show that the proposed new codes will contribute to the optimization of cooling/solidification time for industrial scale PET production.