This paper examines the relation of the rotor revolution frequency in an internal mixer, equipped with two wing type rotors, to spectral peaks which are obtained from the analysis of electric power consumption charts of NBR mixing. The maximum entropy spectral analysis method was used to analyze the charts. Major spectral peak frequencies were identified as the frequencies corresponding to the rotor revolution, the twofold rotor revolution, and one and a twofold encountering cycles of the two wing rotors when they were rotated with different frequencies. It was then shown that the experimentally determined elecrical conductivity of the unvulcanized rubber sheet, which is taken to be an index of mixing, can be expressed as an exponential function of the total rotor revolution number, regardless of the magnitude of the electric energy input, the rotor revolution frequency, and the difference in revolution frequencies between two wing rotors.
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