Ultramelt Flowsim - Developing an approach to model and demonstrate benefits to injection moulding, including 30% cycle time reduction and 28% energy use reduction

Matrix Moulding Systems （MMS）已成为新型增强聚合物加工和回收技术的商业化载体，其中一些技术是近年来由我们的母公司技术研究中心有限公司开发的。MMS拥有电气和机械工程设施，车间和电子实验室设施，以及一系列热塑性聚合物加工和测试设备。2019冠状病毒病大流行导致对注塑塑料的需求增加（protoolabs .co.uk）。然而，尽管如此，大多数公司都预计，由于封锁/保持社交距离的要求（BPF 2020），营业额会受到负面影响。我们的目标是改善增长，使注塑公司能够迅速从COVID-19中恢复过来。我们的技术，Ultramelt可以提高生产力，同时减少能源和碳足迹成本，以实现更绿色，更快的英国GDP增长。ultramelt是一种可以改进注射成型工艺的技术，有助于帮助英国在2019冠状病毒病危机后“重建更强大”。注塑成型生产用于各种应用的聚合物部件，从轮式垃圾箱，电话听筒和汽车部件到注射器，黄油桶和瓶盖。因此，我们的项目可以为英国经济的“可持续重建”做出贡献；注射成型在生产COVID-19检测试剂盒（protoolabs .co.）方面的需求不断增加。然而，尽管如此，大多数公司预计，由于封锁/保持社交距离的要求（BPF 2020），营业额会受到负面影响。Ultramelt可以提高注塑行业的生产率，同时降低与生产相关的成本，并为英国的碳减排目标做出贡献。_Ultramelt可以降低注塑过程中所需的温度。例如，使用PP，熔体温度可以从230ºC降低到190ºC，加热要求降低18%。因此，这降低了相关的能源成本，每吨模具节省约137千瓦时，每吨减少35公斤的碳排放。如果将其扩大到7.5%的市场，我们可以看到每年减少13149万千瓦时和33,661吨二氧化碳当量。Ultramelt还减少了每种产品所需的加热和冷却时间，这意味着一天内的产量更高，生产率最高可提高20%。我们的目标是利用获得的资金建立一个特殊的仪器设备，以帮助数据捕获，使生产系统的更快发展，使Ultramelt技术在英国迅速商业化。

Matrix Moulding Systems (MMS) has been formed as a commercialisation vehicle for novel enhanced polymer processing and recycling technologies, some of which have been developed over recent years by our parent company: The Technology Research Centre Ltd. MMS has access to electrical and mechanical engineering facilities, workshop and electronics lab facilities and access to a range of thermoplastic polymer processing and testing equipment.The COVID-19 pandemic has seen an increase in demand for injection moulded plastic (protolabs.co.uk). However, _despite this, most companies are anticipating a negative effect on turnover due to lockdown/social distancing requirements (BPF 2020). Our aim is to target improved growth and to allow injection moulding companies to recover from COVID-19 rapidly. Our technology, Ultramelt can improve productivity while reducing energy and carbon footprint costs to target a greener, faster period of UK GDP growth._Ultramelt is a technology can improve the injection moulding process and contribute to helping the UK to 'build back stronger' in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis. Injection moulding produces polymer parts used in diverse applications from wheelie bins, telephone handsets and automotive parts to syringes, butter tubs and bottle caps. Therefore _our project can contribute to '__sustainably rebuilding'_ _the UK economy; injection moulding has seen increased demand for use in producing COVID-19 test kits (protolabs.co.uk), yet, despite this, most companies are anticipating a negative effect on turnover due to lockdown/social distancing requirements (BPF 2020). Ultramelt can increase productivity within the injection moulding sector while reducing costs associated with production and contributing to UK's carbon reduction targets._Ultramelt can reduce the temperature required during injection moulding. For example with PP, melt temperatures can be reduced, from 230ºC to 190ºC, representing an 18% reduction in heating requirements. This therefore reduces the associated energy costs, saving around 137kWh per tonne moulded and reducing carbon emissions by 35kg for each tonne. If this was extended to just 7.5% of the market, we could see reductions of up to 131,490,000kWh and 33,661 tonnes of CO2e each year. Ultramelt also reduces the heating and cooling time required for each product, which means higher production within a single day, increasing productivity by up to 20%.We aim to use the funding obtained to build a special instrumented unit to aid data capture to enable faster development of production systems to commercialise the Ultramelt technology quickly across the UK.