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Compound Development With Design of Experiments or The Grafcompounder?
Compound Development With Design of Experiments or The Grafcompounder?
Compound Development With Design of Experiments or The Grafcompounder?
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Computation of compounds
Compound development with design of pany, but hidden to him. With the amazing
number of recipes generated within a rubber
properties. In case of a plurality of bounda- Now using the point prediction tool im- Ohm and Rajan Vara [14] has been analysed
ries there are most likely conflicting targets. plemented in Design-Expert we can set the using both tools. This DoE is dealing with
In this case the rating function will show a factors to the same values given by the Graf- 7 factors and needs 41 experiments to be
number different from zero with no further Compounder, analyse the responses, and conducted resulting in a little larger data-
decrease, indicating, that there is no better check, whether they are within the 95 % base of compounds than the example before.
solution possible. Regarding the purpose of confidence interval. Table 3 illustrates that
this comparison the question is, whether this the results of both software systems are in- The correlation of tensile and elongation
single point is inside the area of solutions side the confidence interval and within the at break is linear as expected. Measured and
obtained by the DoE programme. At least it measurement errors of both methods. predicted data (fig. 5) indicate that there
should be inside the confidence interval of must be a difference between the compound
the area of solutions. As a first conclusion it is obvious that a DoE calculated by the optimisation tool of De-
programme, which is using a set of data and sign-Expert and by the GrafCompounder. The
3.1 Comparing DoE and GrafCompounder calculating the responses by regression model
by an oil/filler optimisation equations – either linear or non linear – will Tab. 1: Oil/filler experiment – fractional factorial
output fitted and smoothed data. Calculations design
As a first example a simple oil/filler DoE with the fitted data will yield results, which
Factor Name Unit Min Max
was chosen, performed as a fractional facto- should be somehow different compared to a
rial design, to show basically how these tools software applying a stepwise iteration pro- A CB 6630 phr 60 95
react on a limited set of data, which can eas- cess without any data fitting. Our expectation B CaCO3 phr 10 70
ily be overviewed by an experienced com- would be that there should be a characteristic C Clay phr 70 95
pounder. The factors of this DoE are shown difference but inside a small tolerance, which D Oil phr 70 95
at 125 °C (t5 – 125 °C) and the scorch time In the second comparison of a DoE and the Scorch time 125 °C t5 3.9 – 4.1 min
at 175 °C (t10 – 175 °C) were chosen. All GrafCompounder a DoE published by Robert Scorch time 175 °C t10 0.43 – 0.44 min
Predicted
12.00 400.00
with the GrafCompounder slightly differ-
10.00 300.00 ent results were obtained as shown in fig-
8.00 200.00 ure 7. The main differences observed were
the higher levels of ENB and sulphur and
6.00 100.00
a lower DTDC level to achieve the targeted
6.00 8.00 10.00 12.00 14.00 16.00 100.00 200.00 300.00 400.00 500.00 600.00
Actual Actual properties.
Tensile at break is significant with linear model
• Sulphur has larger influence followed by DTDC and TBTD If the data were processed by the DoE
Elongation is significant with quadratic model, but linear model is a sufficient fit
• Sulphur has the largest influence followed by DTDC programme with the same boundaries as in
Hardness is sufficient significant with linear model as well the GrafCompounder there occurred a shift
• Main influence sulphur, DTDC
of the ingredient levels as displayed in fig-
ure 8. The results are indicated by the yel- limits for calculation. For achieving the same very different approaches do not differ from
low field (result DoE optimisation) and by the targeted property values the DoE still sug- each other in reality at all.
flag (result GrafCompounder). But what is of gested a lower amount of sulphur and a little
most interest: the sulphur level rise within lower ENB level (fig. 9).
the DoE result while the ENB level is similar 4. Conclusion
to the value before and the DTDC level re- Anyhow, an experienced compounder will
mains high. notice, that a confirmation experiment in A software using a multiple linear itera-
the laboratory or even a large-scale test at tion method is able to predict a compound
How close both solutions really are could the plant will not reveal any differences out- from unorganised data in any compound
be demonstrated by using point prediction, side the measurement error and the 95 % database. Up to now such data could not
which means – as already mentioned above confidence interval for the physical proper- be utilised except for the selection or iden-
– that the values calculated by the GrafCom- ties of both compounds. This leads us to the tification of a compound as a starting point
pounder were put into the DoE software as second conclusion. The results of the two for further development work. The reason
0.90
E: TBTD 1.51
F: ZDBC 1.33
G: DTP 1.45
Tensile strength: 11,214
Elongation at break: 335,106 Results
Hardness: 66,470 Elongation at break: 300.000 Tensile strength 11.5
0.60
X1 5,58
X2 0,44 Elongation at break 325
Tensile strength: 11.000
Hardness: 67.000 Hardness 67
Elongation at break: 350.000 Fig. 6:
Boundaries
0.30
Graphical optimisation • Tensile strength-MPa: 11.5 – 12.0
5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 • Elongation at break-%: 325 – 335
A: ENB
by DoE – factors indi-
• H-Shore A: 65 – 67
cated by flag
Fig. 8: Reprocessed data with the same boundary conditions for both software pro- Fig. 9: Comparison of predictions by GrafCompounder and Design-Expert for the
grammes same target properties
Overlay Plot
1.50
Ingredients Result GrafCompounder Result Design-Expert
The Design-Expert optimisation graph shows the location of the results
Boundaries
as a yellow area, but GrafCompounder result is tagged with a flag. • Tensile strength-MPa: 11.5 – 12.0
0.30
5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 • Elongation at break-%: 325 – 335
A: ENB • H-Shore A: 65 – 67
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