Paul Andersen

Background

About Paul Andersen

I have 40 plus years of industrial polymer development and processing experience. I serve on the Editorial Board of Advances in Polymer Technology, and am a member of the Board of Trustees for the Polymer Processing Institute. I have authored papers for several journals as well as several book chapters. These include Mixing Practices in Co-rotating Twin-Screw Extruders in “Mixing and Compounding of Polymers” edited by Manas & Tadmor; The Werner & Pfleiderer Twin-Screw Co-Rotating Extruder System in "Plastics Compounding” edited by Todd, Twin-screw Extrusion in the 2006 edition of “Encyclopedia of Chemical Processing”, and Compounding Layered Silicate Nanocomposites the upcoming “Polymer Nanocomposites Handbook” edited by Gupta, Kennel and Kim. Specialties: My primary areas of technical experience are reactive compounding, and devolitalization. I hold several patents in both of these areas as well as patents on screw element design for improved mixing. I have also worked extensively on compounding of multi phase engineering polymers, including nanocomposites.