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Numerical simulation and experimental validation of mixing performance of kneading discs in a twin screw extruder.
Simulation and Experimental Validation
Co-rotating intermeshing twin-screw extruders have attracted considerable attention during the last 20 years, mainly in the field of food and polymer processing (1). Among different modules of a co-rotating twin-screw extruder, kneading discs (KDs) arc the dominant ones for mixing efficiency. It remains empirical when it comes to designing KDs and optimizing extrusion conditions for a specific application because of the very large number of geometrical, theological, and operating parameters that may influence the flow. Simplified 1D models are currently the important method used for predicting the temperature, pressure profile, and residence time distribution (RTD) in extrusion processing (2), (3). However, they only provide average values of different parameters along the extruder that may not always be sufficient for describing flow pattern and mixing (4), (5). In recent years, much attention has been paid to full 3D simulation of the flow field in different regions of a co-rotating twin-screw extruder. Manas-Zloczower and coworker investigated the distributive mixing, dispersive mixing and flow field of different regions in co-rotating twin-screw extruders including mixing and conveying elements (6-8). Bravo et al. presented a 3D flow field analysis for KDs (9), (10). Ishikawa et al. performed nonisothermal simulation of KDs, rotors, conveying element, and screw mixing elements (11-13). Lawal and Kalyon discussed mixing mechanisms in co-rotating twin screw extruders (14).
It is not easy to calculate flow patterns in complex geometries such as KDs. As the KDs rotate, time-dependent boundaries make numerical simulations more difficult. Avalosse introduced a so-called mesh superposition technique (MST) to model intermeshing twin-screw extruders without calling upon remeshing (15). They used the Polyflow software (Fluent Inc.) based on the MST to analyze mixing efficiency and flow field in a kneading block section of a twin-screw extruder (16-18). Connelly and Kokini used Polyflow to discuss the effects of shear thinning and viscoelasticity fluid on mixing in a 2D mixer (19), (20). They simulated the flow of a viscous Newtonian fluid in a twin sigma blade mixer using Polyflow code with MST and analyzed the distributive mixing and mixing efficiency of the mixer (21). However, those studies were limited to batch mixers. Breuer et al. simulated the flow pattern in a miniature mixer and compared the performance of the Albert polymer asymmetric minimixer to that of the MiniMAX molder (22). Ficarella et al. investigated the fluid-dynamic behavior of an extrusion cooking process for cereals in a co-rotating twin-screw extruder using Polyflow code (23), (24).
Experimental validation of simulated results is another big challenge. There have been studies on numerical simulations of pressure, temperature, and velocity profiles and their comparison with experiments (9), (11), (25). Potente and Flecke used a 2.5D finite element method to analyze the minimal residence time in conveying elements and compared the minimal residence time with experimental data (26). The modeling was based on the plain unwinding of the intermeshing twin screws. Huneault measured the RTD in co-rotating twin-screw extruders, used the RTD to determine the effect of operating conditions on the degree of fill (27), and compared the experimental data of the degree of fill with the calculated ones. However, to the best of the authors' knowledge, numerical simulations and experimental validations of the local RTD in mixing sections of a twin-screw extruder are still rare because of experimental difficulties, and yet they are crucial.
Kinematic Model of Distributive Mixing
For a viscous fluid, the distributive mixing mechanism is the stretching and reorientation of fluid elements (28). Ottino and coworkers developed a lamellar model to quantify the capacity of a flow to deform matter and to generate interface between two components in a mixture, which gives a kinematic approach to modeling distributive mixing by tracking the amount of deformation experienced by a fluid element (28-32). In the initial fluid domain, when an infinitesimal material area |dA| with normal direction [^.N] is transformed into an area |da| with normal direction [^.n] at time t, the area stretch ratio of material surface [eta] is defined as (29) follows:
[eta] = [|da|/|dA|]. (1)
A good distributive mixing quality requires a high value of [eta] over space and time. An instantaneous stretching efficiency [e.sub.[eta]] based on stretching of material surfaces is defined as (30) follows:
[e.sub.[eta]] = [[[eta]/[eta]]/[(D:D).sup.[1/2]]] = [[d(log [eta])/dt]/[(D:D).sup.[1/2]]] = [[ - D:[^.m][^.m]]/[(D:D).sup.[1/2]]], (2)
where [eta] is a material time derivative of [eta], D is a rate of deformation tensor, and [^.m] is a local normal unit vector of current surface. [e.sub.[eta]] characterizes the fraction of the dissipated energy used for stretching the area and falls in the range [ - 1, 1]. A positive (negative) value indicates that the dissipated energy is used for stretching (shrinking) the surface. A time-averaged efficiency <[e.sub.[eta]]> is defined as (29) follows:
<[e.sub.[eta]]> = [1/t][[integral].sub.0.sup.t][e.sub.[eta]]dt. (3)
The above mixing parameters can be calculated when the velocity field is known. The logarithm of the area stretch ratio log [eta] can be used to compare the distributive mixing performance of different mixers. Distributive mixing efficiency can be characterized by time-average efficiency <[e.sub.[eta]]>. Some researchers defined a distribution function [F.sub.[alpha]] associated with the field x. The quantity [F.sub.[alpha]]([[alpha].sub.p], t) is given as (33), (34) follows:
[F.sub.[alpha]]([[alpha].sub.p], t) = p, (4)
where [[alpha].sub.p] is a critical value, which indicates that p % of marker particles have a value of x lower than or equal to [[alpha].sub.p] at time t. The field [alpha] may be [eta], [e.sub.[eta]], or <[e.sub.[eta]]>.
This work aims at analyzing the mixing of a generalized Newtonian fluid in KDs using numerical simulation and experiments. The velocity field in kneading zones is simulated using a commercial computational fluid dynamics code: POLYFLOW 3.10.0 [R]. The local RTD of the same domains is then calculated based on the velocity field. Simulated results are compared with experimental ones obtained by an in-line measuring instrument (35), (36). The distributive mixing parameters such as the area stretch ratio of material surface [eta], instantaneous stretching efficiency [e.sub.[eta]] and time-averaged efficiency <[e.sub.[eta]]> are calculated using the interface tracking techniques. These parameters are then used to compare the distributive mixing performance and efficiency of different types of KDs.
Geometry of KDs
Figure 1 shows the geometry of eight different KDs simulated in this work. They all have the same axial length, i.e., 64 mm, and differ in stagger angle, disc width, and/or disc gap. Table 1 describes the characteristics of KD1 to KD8 and flow channel in Fig. 1. The first three KDs (KD 1 to KD3) are used for experimentally validating the simulated results. KD4 to KD6 have the same disc width and gap, but differ in stagger angle. They are chosen to analyze the effect of the stagger angle on the local RTD and distributive mixing parameters. The effects of the disc width and gap on the axial and distributive mixing are studied with KD6, KD7, and KD8. The KD7 and KD8 do not have disc gap between the two discs. The flow channel includes three parts: inlet section, kneading section, and outlet section. The kneading section accommodates a KD. Sufficiently long inlet and outlet sections are added to the computational domains where fully developed flows are assumed (37). Figure 2 shows the disc gaps of a KD.
TABLE 1. The description of kneading discs KD1 to KD8 and flow channel in Fig. 1. Description KD1 Two pairs of intermeshing 45/5/32 kneading discs KD2 Two pairs of intermeshing 60/4/32 kneading discs KD3 Two pairs of intermeshing 90/5/32 kneading discs KD4 One pair of intermeshing 45/10/64 kneading discs KD5 One pair of intermeshing 60/10/64 kneading discs KD6 One pair of intermeshing 90/10/64 kneading discs KD7 One pair of intermeshing 90/10/64 kneading discs KD8 One pair of intermeshing 90/5/64 kneading discs Flow channel Inlet section (2 mm) + kneading section (64 mm) outlet section (4 mm)
Meshing is carried out using the commercial preprocessor software GAMBIT (Fluent Inc.). The meshes of each KD are chosen after a preliminary mesh-discretization study. A convergence analysis compares the velocity and pressure solutions of different mesh numbers along the axial direction. The number of meshes is increased till the solutions are insensitive to it. Table 2 gathers the numbers of 3D elements for KD1 to KD8 and the flow channel used for the simulations.
TABLE 2. The number of 3D elements for KDl to KD8 and the flow channel. Number of 3D elements KD1 8960 KD2 8122 KD3 8512 KD4 9880 KD5 10,100 KD6 9976 KD7 9260 KD8 9260 Flow channel 21,000
Numerical Simulation and Material Parameters
Polyflow software incorporates a so-called MST to simulate transient flows with internal moving parts (36). The MST generates finite element meshes for the flow domain and each screw element, respectively, which are then superimposed. Since the position of each screw element is updated at each time step, the flow domain can be calculated by the weak formulation of the Navier-Stokes equations and the screw element domain can be constrained by the screw speed.
The flow is assumed to be a time-dependent, isothermal, incompressible, and generalized Newtonian fluid with no body forces. The governing equations are the momentum and continuity equations and can be written as follows:
[DELTA] * [tau] - [DELTA]P = 0. (5)
[nabla] * u = 0. (6)
where [tau] is the extra stress tensor. P is the pressure, and u is the velocity vector. [tau] is given by
[tau] = 2[eta]D, (7)
where D is the rate of deformation tensor: [eta] is the kinematic viscosity and depends on the shear rate [gamma]. The constitutive equation is represented by the Carreau model:
[eta]([gamma]) = [[eta].sub.0][[1 + [([lambda][gamma]).sup.2]].sup.[(n - 1)/2]], (8)
where [[eta].sub.0] is the zero shear rate viscosity, [lambda] is the natural time, and n is the power law index. The material used in this study is polystyrene (PS) of Yangzi-BASF. China. Its viscosity is measured on a capillary rheometer (Thermo Haake Rheoflixer) for the high shear rate domain and on an advanced rheometric expansion system (ARES: Rheometrics Corp., USA) in a parallel plate mode for the low shear rate domain (see Fig. 3). The parameters for the Carreau model are [[eta].sub.0] = 2814 Pa s. [lambda] = 0.148 s, and n = 0.278.
The no-slip boundary conditions are imposed to the surfaces of the KDs and barrel bore walls. A volume flow rate is set to the inlet section and a normal stress boundary condition is applied to the outlet section. Table 3 lists the operating conditions for the numerical simulations and experiments. The volume throughput was calculated by dividing the mass throughput by the melt density of the PS (970 kg/[m.sup.3]).
TABLE 3. Operating conditions for the numerical simulations and experiments carried out in this work. (a) Exp. 1 Exp. 2 Exp. 3 Exp. 4 Screw speed (rpm) 120 150 150 150 Mass throughput (kg/h) 10.7 10.7 13.4 17.8 Volume throughput Q (X [10.sup.-6] 3.06 3.06 3.84 5.10 [m.sup.3]/s) (a) Barrel temperature: 220[degrees]C.
Marker Particle Tracking Analysis
To calculate the local RTD provided by each of the above eight types of KDs, virtual particles are launched at the same time in the flow domain. It is assumed that the marker particles are massless, volumeless, and noninter-acting with each other. Under these assumptions, the particles can be located by integrating the velocity vectors with respect to time. Initially, these particles are randomly distributed in an inlet vertical plane (see Fig. 4) and their trajectories between the inlet and outlet are calculated from the velocity profiles. Along each trajectory, the residence time is computed. The RTD is obtained based on the residence time of each of these particles. The number of marker particles has to be high enough for the simulation. Figure 5 shows that 1000 marker particles are not enough and that 2000 marker particles start yielding results much closer to those of the 3000.
Previous researchers pointed out that the initial location and orientation of interfaces could have an influence on mixing parameters such as the area stretch ratio [eta] and instantaneous stretching efficiency [e.sub.[eta]] (20), (21), (28), (29). According to Chella and Ottino, the stretch rate of the initially vertical interface perpendicular to the streamlines is faster than that of horizontal interface in the rectangular cavity flow (31). They also found that when a large amount of the area is calculated to characterize the mixing performance of different mixers, the influence of initial orientation on the stretch rate is very small. Figure 6 shows the effect of the number of marker particles and that of the initial direction of interface on the arithmetic mean of the area stretch ratio and that of the instantaneous stretching efficiency in KD2. When the number of marker particles is large enough, such as 2000 and 3000 particles, the arithmetic means of the two mixing parameters are insensitive to the initial direction and location nor the number of marker particles. This infers that they can be used to compare the distributive mixing performance and efficiency of different types of KDs. Subsequently, 2000 particles with random direction are used to calculate mixing parameters.
RTDs are measured under the same operating conditions as the numerical simulations. Figure 7 shows the screw configuration used in this study. There are two test points marked as Probes 1 and 2. The screw elements beneath Probes 1 and 2 were cylinders. The cylinders ensured full fill of the screw elements beneath Probes 1 and 2 and a constant depth between the probes and the screw element surfaces. Meanwhile, using the cylinder was to make sure that the flow was fully developed in the inlet and outlet sections as it is assumed for the numerical simulations. Briefly, the two probes were bifurcated optical fibers and the detection principles were based on fluorescent emission. Details about their characteristics and working principles can be found in the literature (35), (36). There were four identical KDs between Probes 1 and 2, called the test zone. It was the object of the numerical simulation. However, the test zone has four pairs of identical KDs instead of two for the numerical simulation. The reason was that computing four pairs of KDs was computationally costly. To overcome this problem, four pairs of KDs were divided into two "two pairs." It was assumed that the statistical theory for RTDs is applicable for calculating the RTD of the four pairs from those of the two "two pairs." Based on the statistical theory (38-40), the delay time of the four pairs was twice that of the two "two pairs." [E.sub.1] (t) and [E.sub.2] (t) were measured by Probes 1 and 2, respectively. Meanwhile, [E.sub.2] (t) was calculated by the convolution of [E.sub.1] (t) and [E.sub.12] (t) obtained by numerical simulations and was used to compare with the experimentally measured [E.sub.2] (t).
Experimental Validation
To gain better understanding of the flow occurring in the KDs of the co-rotating twin-screw extruder, Fig. 8 shows the streamlines of two particles initially located at different places of the inlet. They followed different streamlines to the exit, implying that they had different residence times. Particle 1 proceeded around the screws in a "figure-eight" mode, which is in agreement with the experimental results of previous researchers (41), (42). For particle 2, its motion first followed a "figure-eight" mode and then circled around one screw. It finally returned a "figure-eight" mode. The above two different motion modes show that as time evolved, the fluid particles underwent different degrees of shear and stress. The complex flow in the KDs is indicative of good mixing.
Figure 9 compares the numerical local RTD results with the experimental ones for KD2. The overall trend was in good agreement. However, the former were wider than the latter. Reasons for those differences could be as follows. The simulation assumed that the flow channel be fully filled and that the flow be isothermal. Moreover, the melt density of the polymer was assumed to be constant and did not vary with pressure and temperature, and the polymer melt was assumed to be a generalized Newtonian fluid. Those assumptions were not necessarily fully met in practice. It was reported that subtle differences in rheology could impart significant differences to mixing (20). Figure 10 compares the simulated and experimental RTD for different screw configurations. Again the 90[degrees] KDs has the highest axial mixing performance while the 45[degrees] and 60[degrees] KDs have similar axial mixing performance.
Effect of Geometrical Parameters on Local RTD
The KD4, KD5, and KD6 have the same disc width and gap but different stagger angles. Figure 11 shows the effect of the stagger angle on the local RTD. The delay time and average residence time increased with an increase in the stagger angle. Also the 90[degrees] KD provides the highest axial mixing quality.
Figure 12 shows the effects of the disc gap and width on the local RTD. The three local RTD curves are similar in delay time and shape, indicating that the KD6, KD7, KD8 have similar axial mixing quality.
Distributive Mixing Performance and Efficiency
The area stretch was used as a measure for comparing the distributive mixing performance of different types of KDs. An effective KD requires high values of the logarithm of the area stretch ratio over the axial distance. Distributive mixing efficiency was characterized by time-average efficiency. Figure 13a shows the arithmetic mean of log [eta] from the entry to the exit. For KD4, KD5, and KD6, it increased more or less linearly with increasing axial distance Z, indicating that [eta] increased exponentially with Z. Among the three screw configurations, for a given axial distance the arithmetic mean of log [eta] followed the order: KD6 > KD5 > KD4, indicating that the distributive mixing performance increased with increasing stagger angle of the KD. Figure 13b shows the critical value of the arithmetic mean of log [eta] along Z for 10, 50, and 90% marker particles for KD4, KD5, and KD6, respectively. Again it followed the order: KD6 > KD5 > KD4, regardless of the percentile of marker particles.
From Fig. 13a, the arithmetic mean of log [eta] vs. Z curves fluctuated, especially at a higher axial distance. This means that not all particle surfaces are stretched along Z in a steady manner. At the initial stage of mixing, it is easy to stretch the surface area and the arithmetic mean of log [eta] increases linearly with Z. As the surface area is further stretched, area stretching becomes more difficult. Meanwhile, Ishikawa et al, pointed out that the disc gap plays an important role for mixing because of the large amount of forward and backward flow (11). The latter may bring about stretch and shrink of surfaces. Figure 13b shows that stretch and shrink of surfaces occur primarily at high area stretch ratio.
Figure 14a shows the effects of the disc gap and disc width on the arithmetic mean of log [eta] as a function of Z for 90[degrees]KDs. The arithmetic mean of log [eta] of a KD with a gap (KD6) is higher than that of a corresponding KD without disc gap (KD7). On the other hand, A KD with a smaller disc width a smaller disc width (KD7) has a higher arithmetic mean of log [eta] than a corresponding one (KD8), indicating that the distributive mixing performance decreases with increasing disc width. This result is in agreement with that of Andersen (43). It is also noted that unlike KD7 and KD8 whose arithmetic mean of log [eta] increases linearly and smoothly with Z, that of KD6 also increases linearly but in a fluctuating manner. In fact, each fluctuation of the arithmetic mean of log [eta] corresponds to a passage through a gap. Figure 14b shows the critical values for 10, 50, 90% marker particles. There are no fluctuations at low percentiles such as 10 and 50%. Fluctuations are visible only at high percentiles of 90%.
In a closed system such as a batch mixer, the time-average efficiency exhibits three characteristic features: <[e.sub.[eta]]> decays as [t.sup.-1] for flow with no reorientation; <[e.sub.[eta]]> decays as [t.sup.-1] but oscillates for flow with moderate reorientation; <[e.sub.[eta]]> oscillates without decay for flow with strong reorientation (20), (31), (32). For an open system such as an extruder or a Kenics mixer, [Z.sup.-1] is equivalent to [t.sup.-1] Figure 15a shows the evolution of the arithmetic mean of the time-average efficiency as a function of Z for KD4, KD5, and KD6. The three curves have periodic oscillations without decay as [Z.sup.-1], indicating that all the three KDs bring about strong reorientation. Among the three KDs, the arithmetic mean of the time-average efficiency is the highest for KD6 is highest, indicating that KD6 provides strongest reorientation. Figure 15b shows the time-average efficiency as a function of Z for different percentiles of marker particles. At low percentiles such as 10 and 50%, the critical values of the time-average efficiency are similar for the three types of KDs. At a high percentile such as 90%, KD6 yields significantly higher time-average efficiency. This indicates that at low percentiles the three types of KDs are similar in time-average efficiency. However, at high percentiles, KD6 provides the highest time-average efficiency. It is also noted that when marker particles start moving, most of them are stretched. Nevertheless, some of them have shrunk. Therefore, they exhibit negative time-average efficiency at the initial stage. They are all stretched eventually.
As for the three 90[degrees] KDs (KD6, KD7, and KD8), they have similar RTD curves (see Fig. 12) but differ in log [eta] (see Fig. 14). KD6 provides the highest log [eta], thus the highest distributive mixing performance. Figure 16 compares these three types of KDs in terms of <[e.sub.[eta]]>. Clearly KD8 provides the highest mixing efficiency and not KD6. The reason is that <[e.sub.[eta]]> is not only a function of d(log [eta])/dt but also of D:D and RTD. Figure 17 shows the evolution of d(log [eta])/dt and [(D:D).sup.[1/2]] as a function of Z for KD6, KD7, and KD8, respectively. The arithmetic mean of d(log [eta])/dt is very close for the three types of KDs. On the other hand, these three types of KDs differ more or less in [(D:D).sup.[1/2]], the energy dissipated. The value of [(D:D).sup.[1/2]] is the lowest for KD8, indicating that the fraction of the energy dissipated for the area stretch is the highest for KD8. In sum, KD8 provides the lowest distributive mixing performance (characterized by log [eta]) but highest mixing efficiency (characterized by <[e.sub.[eta]]>).
This article has reported on three-dimensional numerical simulations of flow and mixing in KDs in a co-rotating twin-screw extruder. The simulations are validated against experimentally measured local RTDs for different types of KDs and experimental conditions.
In addition to operating conditions, the geometry of the KD may have a significant effect on the local RTD. The delay time and mean residence time increase with increasing stagger angle of the KD: 45[degrees] < 60[degrees] < 90[degrees]. The axial mixing characterized by the spread of the local RTD follows the opposite trend.
The area stretch ratio [eta] and the time-average efficiency <[e.sub.[eta]]> characterize the distributive mixing performance and efficiency, respectively. The former increases with increasing axial distance Z in an exponential manner for all types of KDs simulated in this work, indicating that they all have good distributive mixing performance. The magnitude of increase in [eta] and <[e.sub.[eta]]> follows the order: 45[degrees] < 60[degrees] < 90[degrees].
The disc gap and disc width play an important role in distributive mixing performance and efficiency. A KD with a disc gap provides higher area stretch ratio and time-average efficiency than a corresponding one without disc gap. A KD with a larger disc width has a lower distributive mixing performance than a corresponding one with a smaller disc width. However, its distributive mixing efficiency could be higher because of lower energy dissipation, implying that for thermally sensitive polymers, it would be better to use a KD with a larger disc width than a KD with a smaller disc width. In general, KDs with disc gaps, small disc widths, and large stagger angles provide good distributive mixing performance.
The authors express their sincere thanks to the reviewers for their thoughtful and constructive comments on this manuscript.
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Xian-Ming Zhang, (1) Lian-Fang Feng, (2) Wen-Xing Chen, (1) Guo-Hua Hu (3), (4)
(1) Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology, Ministry of Education, Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, Hangzhou 310018, China
(2) State Key Laboratory of Polymer Reaction Engineering, College of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
(3) Laboratory of Chemical Engineering Sciences, CNRS-ENSIC-INPL, 54001 Nancy, France
(4) Institut Universitaire de France, Maison des Universites, 75005 Paris, France
Correspondence to: Lian-Fang Feng: e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com or GuoHua Hu: e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Contract grant sponsor: National Natural Science Foundation of China; contract grant number: 50390097; contract grant sponsor: Key Laboratory of Advanced Textile Materials and Manufacturing Technology (Zhejiang Sci-Tech University), Ministry of Education; contract grant number: 2008QN05.
DOI 10.1002/pen.21404
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Epic awesomeness! Congratulations MWLL team! I've been following you from my first day on Crymod, you really deserve it! (Btw, is Criminal still in the team? :/)
Welcome to the 8th Annual Mod of the Year Awards - the premiere event that celebrates the best creations within the modding and indie gaming scene. Developers have delivered plenty of great gameplay experiences this year, and now it is our turn as gamers to nominate and recognize the best of 2009.
From now until Feb 20th, we shall be sharing a year in review and showcasing the editors' picks of 2009, culminating in the announcement of this year's best mod and game as voted by you. The top mods and games will win the honors of being placed alongside other projects that have gone on to become commercial successes and cement their place in ModDB's hall of fame. And to the winner goes the spoils; ModDB has teamed up with a whole lineup of sponsors that have provided prizes ranging from software to servers to beanbags. Everything to help budding developers excel at their craft.
Mod of the Year 2009 Editors Choice - Best Multiplayer Mod
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2009 was the year for multiplayer focused mod players, with many new exciting projects to grace us with the releases it was a good year. To be nominated for an award in Best Multiplayer Mod projects need to have been updated significantly during 2009 and be multiplayer focused. Here are the Editors of ModDB's top selection of 2009.
MechWarrior: Living Legends
is a total conversion modification for Crysis. MWLL is at its very core a mix between a First Person Shooter and a Simulation. This will be achieved through the use of a mixed arms massively multiplayer gaming experience where the player takes part in a battle using a variety of vehicles and weapons.
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is a zombie-riffic vehicular Western of brain-swallowing proportions, yeah? And here's how it works. SEVERAL COWBOYS roam in from the outskirts of town in a TRUCK. The truck seats eight. These cowboys have epic dress sense, by the way. These cowboys are called the RESCUERS. They must ACQUIRE THE ESSENTIAL SUPPLIES OF WESTERN POST-APOCALYPTIC LIVING
The Haunted
is a fast paced thirdperson horror-action game with focus on a intense multiplayer experience that is all about making a stand and liberating cursed places from the minions of evil. The game features several multiplayer modes such as coop or demons .vs. humans where enemies are spawned and controlled by players. The outstanding visuals lay a perfect tone for the gameplay.
takes place in and around a fictionalized Tokyo approximately 30 years in the future. Mankind has begun to fuse with technology. Government and corporate corruption have transformed Tokyo into a deadly dystopian nightmare.
Epic awesomeness! Congratulations MWLL team! I've been following you from my first day on Crymod, you really deserve it! (Btw, is Criminal still in the team? :/)
Crim is still on the team yes :)
Although currently visiting Austraila, so he's not able to pay our website bills ( Mechlivinglegends.net is currently down due to bandwidth quotas for the month) :P
It should be up tomorrow though once feburary starts.
Switch to 1&1. They offer unlimited monthly bandwidth on any deal available. I use them and have run sites with thousands of hits a day without even a single second of down time.
I'm surprised again. I thought for sure Neotokyo was going to win. But I haven't played the MechWarrior mod. I keep forgetting I have Crysis :P
I was rooting for NT. It's definitely a top notch mod. TBH though, I don't see why it was MW:LL that got it in the end. From the looks of it, the gameplay video looks fairly bland (Granted, so does Neotokyo's) and the weapons in the videos underwhelming. It looks like an updated version of Wulfram. (www.wulfram.com). Congratulations none the less.
Oh well NT, you keep getting cheated out of awards. :'(
At least you didn't get beat by Shotgun Sunrise, if that had happened I'd had no more faith at all in Moddb's editors. :P
Congratulations to MechWarrior: Living Legends team!
Oh Neotokyo, you were indeed most awesome. It just chanced though that your competition would be as equally as awesome.
Congrats MWLL team, excellent looking mod.
There are so few completed Crysis mods, congrats to MW!
All mods looked of great quality and even though I was cheering on NT I'm glad MWLL won it looks like they put a lot of work into it and the game play looked interesting.
Mechwarrior team has been busting their butts for a long time on this, and I have a lot of respect for those guys for putting as much hard work and dedication as they have. Congratulation guys you diserve it.
On a side note, I think all the nominees for this have also done a fantastic job and I know I would not be able to pick from this group.
Win or loose I feel everyone on this list is a winner due to the amount of hard work that has been put into these great mods and amount of quality that rival even today's commercial games.
Srsly ? Mechwarior? Lame
Congratulations MWLL team. I remember playing MechWarrior 2 for hours back in the oleden days. Pitty I don't own crisis.
Really, even ignoring how great MWLL is, it really deserves a win just on the grounds of making a fun multiplayer mod off the Crysis engine. Source engine? Everyone's been there, done that. Actually making something playable and fun out of Crysis though, that's an achievement.
Congratulations to the Mechwarrior Team!
WTF, why is Shotgun Sunrise there? Nobody even plays that
Same can be said about NT.
YES! Mechwarrior LL is amazing!
The team are very professional and boy they are going to go far!
Who bets this mod will be better than Mechwarrior5?
Nice choice there, the nominees were good but I would say "casual", but Mech fighting is a lot more rare these days to find specially in good quality like in the mod :)
I take it you sir have not played Renegade-X? ^^ It is a unique multiplayer experience, and far from casual! :)
I wouldn't call any of them casual to be fair. Casual games are ones that appeal to people who dont usually play games, games to pick up, play by yourself or with friends for a party.
These games are all hardcore online gamers, intense games that require skill and practice! :)
Well,in my opinion all the mods were great and congratulations to the winner! :)
Please, dear editiors, if you're doing a vid showing of the best mods of a year (or the runner-ups for the title) then please make a video that let the mods shine at least a bit... All the mods looked dull and bad in this video, and while i only played one of them, i don't think the others are that dull and bad...
Congratulations to the winner and the runner-ups.
I'm probably wrong, but...I SEE A BOOB IN YOUR AVVY!!! @und3r3t
u guys forgot to mention forgotten hope 2 for battlefield 2! I would put that 2nd right behind mwll
Congradulations MWLL. You deserve it.
this mod is awesome, so you really deserve it.
Congratulations, nt rocks,
but i think other mods schould get the titlw, but i hope nt gets so more popular!!
I would have though Jedi Knight Galaxies would have been up there
Wow Situation Outbreak is easily waaaaay better than Shotgun Sunrise.
I didn't think NeoTokyo wasn't that good at all.
I found SS and NT to be boring and to bland and only just the same. There was nothing new to them.
The guy who voices this is an a Australian?
neotokoy all the way yay
Was Shotgun Sunrise even in the top 100?
Nice! Now hopefully I'll have gotten a better computer by the time MWLL is out of beta!


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Jan Hunt writes in her article "22 Alternatives to Punishment" on the Natural Child Project webpage that one of the most important things to remember is to "give your child time, and give yourself time." In my friend's situation with her four-year-old's random leaf blitz, that's just what she did by staying silent and not yelling or reacting with punishment. Many other parents would have grabbed the child in anger, spanked him for disrespect, and scolded him for being bad. Traditional discipline would have us at least do something immediately, because if we wait a while to scold, the child will have forgotten what he is being scolded for. But the healthiest option for both parent and child is to take time, even if is only a few seconds, to stay silent, calm down and think of how to approach the situation appropriately.
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Exactly. It's hard for a lot of people (Nadal haters) here, but the surface distribution is obviously not fair (and good on Toni for saying it).
I think you're dead wrong on this. The surface distribution is something that evolves over time and players are expected to adapt to it. You can argue that the surface distribution is not even. But fair? All players know the surface before hand and conditions are equal for all. It is rafa's fault if he decides to develop a game more suitable for clay.
Now you could say that if tomorrow suddenly, they said Roland garros is played on a HC, now that would be unfair.
The fact that Nadal moulded his game for clay is what has made him the RG goat, it is a choice he and Toni made and they should not blame the ATP for that. And why does Nadal complain about hC and then plays meaningless exos on HC?
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Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire
Posted on Aug 25, 2008
By Chris Hedges
The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan grind forward with their terrible human toll, even as the press and many Americans play who gets thrown off the island with Barack Obama. Coalition forces carried out an airstrike that killed up to 95 Afghan civilians in western Afghanistan on Friday, 50 of them children, President Hamid Karzai said. And the mounting bombing raids and widespread detentions of Afghans are rapidly turning Afghanistan into the mirror image of Iraq. But these very real events, which will have devastating consequences over the next few months and years, are largely ignored by us. We prefer to waste our time on the trivia and gossip that swallow up air time and do nothing to advance our understanding of either the campaign or the wars fought in our name.
As the conflict in Afghanistan has intensified, so has the indiscriminate use of airstrikes, including Friday's, which took place in the Azizabad area of Shindand district in Herat province. The airstrike was carried out after Afghan and coalition soldiers were ambushed by insurgents while on a patrol targeting a known Taliban commander in Herat, the U.S. military said. Hundreds of Afghans, shouting anti-U.S. slogans, staged angry street protests on Saturday in Azizabad to protest the killings, and Karzai condemned the airstrike.
The United Nations estimates that 255 of the almost 700 civilian deaths in fighting in Afghanistan this year have been caused by Afghan and international troops. The number of civilians killed in fighting between insurgents and security forces in Afghanistan has soared by two-thirds in the first half of this year.
Ghulam Azrat, the director of the middle school in Azizabad, said he collected 60 bodies after the bombing.
"We put the bodies in the main mosque,'' he told the Associated Press by phone, sometimes pausing to collect himself as he wept. "Most of these dead bodies were children and women. It took all morning to collect them."
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Azrat said villagers on Saturday threw stones at Afghan soldiers who arrived and tried to give out food and clothes. He said the soldiers fired into the crowd and wounded eight people, including one child.
"The people were very angry," he said. "They told the soldiers, 'We don't need your food, we don't need your clothes. We want our children. We want our relatives. Can you give [them] to us? You cannot, so go away.' "
We are in trouble in Afghanistan. Sending more soldiers and Marines to fight the Taliban is only dumping gasoline on the bonfire. The Taliban assaults, funded largely by the expanded opium trade, are increasingly sophisticated and well coordinated. And the Taliban is exacting a rising toll on coalition troops. Soldiers and Marines are now dying at a faster rate in Afghanistan than Iraq. In an Aug. 18 attack, only 30 miles from the capital, Kabul, the French army lost 10 and had 21 wounded. The next day, hundreds of militants, aided by six suicide bombers, attacked one of the largest U.S. bases in the country. A week before that, insurgents killed three foreign aid workers and their Afghan driver, prompting international aid missions to talk about withdrawing from a country where they already have very limited access.
Barack Obama, like John McCain, speaks about Afghanistan in words that look as if they were penned by the Bush White House. Obama may call for withdrawing some U.S. troops from Iraq, but he does not want to send them all home. He wants to send them to Afghanistan, or to what he obliquely terms "the right battlefield." Obama said he would deploy an additional 10,000 troops to Afghanistan once he took office.
The seven-year war in Afghanistan has not gone well. An additional 3,200 Marines were deployed there in January. Karzai's puppet government in Kabul controls little territory outside the capital. And our attempt to buy off tribes with money and even weapons has collapsed, with most tribal groups slipping back into the arms of the Taliban insurgents.
Do the cheerleaders for an expanded war in Afghanistan know any history? Have they studied what happened to the Soviets, who lost 15,000 Red Army soldiers between 1979 and 1988, or even the British in the 19th century? Do they remember why we went into Afghanistan? It was, we were told, to hunt down Osama bin Laden, who is now apparently in Pakistan. Has anyone asked what our end goal is in Afghanistan? Is it nation-building? Or is this simply the forever war on terror?
Al-Qaida, which we have also inadvertently resurrected, is alive and well. It still finds plenty of recruits. It still runs training facilities. It still caries out attacks in London, Madrid, Iraq and now Afghanistan, which did not experience suicide bombings until December 2005. Al-Qaida has moved on. But we remain stuck, confused and lashing about wildly like a wounded and lumbering beast.
We do not have the power or the knowledge, nor do we have the right under international law, to occupy Iraq and Afghanistan. We are vainly trying to transplant to these countries a modern system of politics invented in Europe. This system is characterized by, among other things, the division of the Earth into independent secular states based on national citizenship. The belief in a secular civil government is to most Afghans and Iraqis an alien creed. It will never work.
We have blundered into nations we know little about. We are caught between bitter rivalries among competing ethnic and religious groups. We have embarked on an occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan that is as damaging to our souls as it is to our prestige and power and security. And we believe, falsely, that because we have the capacity to wage war we have the right to wage war.
We divert ourselves in our dotage and decline with images and slogans that perpetuate fantasies about our own invulnerability, our own might, our own goodness. We are preoccupied by national trivia games that pass for news, even as the wolf pants at our door. These illusions blind us. We cannot see ourselves as others see us. We do not know who we are.
"We had fed the heart on fantasies," William Butler Yeats wrote, "the heart's grown brutal from the fare."
We are propelled forward not by logic or compassion or understanding but by fear. We have created and live in a world where violence is the primary form of communication. We have become the company we keep. Much of the world—certainly the Muslim world, one-fifth of the world's population, most of whom are not Arab—sees us through the prism of Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine. We are igniting the dispossessed, the majority of humanity who live on less than two dollars a day. And whoever takes the White House next January seems hellbent on fueling our self-immolation.
Chris Hedges' column, now weekly, appears Mondays on Truthdig.
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By George Archers., August 27, 2008 at 7:17 pm Link to this comment
Folktruther,please stop using the term anti-semitism.
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Biden said I'm a true ZIONIST and I'll do everything in my power to protect Israel.What is worse,sillyass stated that Russia is an enemy of America and cautious on china.
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Wow. This site drawing the backwoods boys from their cabins in Idaho down to the internet cafe at the local gas station. Incendiary. But as said before, the trolls here are slick: the message is don't vote for the dems b/c they are just the same—might as well stay home! And then by extension, McSame gets elected by adjusting fewer voting machines. Don't fall for their trap. Vote for Obama! We need a new progressive agenda to correct course step by step once elected.
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Yellowbird2525 partial right on what you say, but you don't go far enough with follow the money. It is the keepers of the politicians who are the criminals. You also use Left gate keepers as sources. Democracynow is funded by the FORD fondation for a start. She interviewed Nader on her show and instead of letting him state his agenda she made sure to point out the spoiler and bring that to the front. Once some of these internet groups get established they start getting funds that are there to sway them. To get some thoughts and evidence on some of theses folks try http://gowans.blogspot.com/ Whats Left. AS for the b.s of Laura Bush. The Afghan women had more liberation under the soviets. There are a number of Left gate keeper sights to expose some of the conflicts of these internet and other news sources, some can get pretty far out. Others make good points.
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Biden=Cheney, Folks,I hate to break your hearts but America has always been a terrorist state.First country that America invaded was algeria—all because of trade routes. Philopines—-Why? Hawaii—-what for? They even tried Canada. No changes but worse—Democrates are twins of terror.Following is a another(Pelosi)dangerous smirking chimp.Check Google u-tube—he admits to being a zionists and hates Russia with a passion—Devil in drag!
The Biden Betrayal
The veteran Delaware senator has been one the leading congressional supporters of U.S. militarization of the Middle East and Eastern Europe, of strict economic sanctions against Cuba, and of Israeli occupation policies.
Most significantly, however, Biden, who chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the lead-up to the Iraq War during the latter half of 2002, was perhaps the single most important congressional backer of the Bush administration's decision to invade that oil-rich country.
Shrinking Gap Between Candidates
One of the most important differences between Obama and the soon-to-be Republican presidential nominee John McCain is that Obama had the wisdom and courage to oppose the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Obama and his supporters had been arguing correctly that judgment in foreign policy is far more important than experience; this was a key and likely decisive argument in the Illinois senator's campaign against Sen. Hillary Clinton, who had joined McCain in backing the Iraq war resolution.
However, in choosing Biden, who, like the forthcoming Republican nominee, has more experience in international affairs but notoriously poor judgment, Obama is essentially saying that this critical difference between the two prospective presidential candidates doesn't really matter. This decision thereby negates one of his biggest advantages in the general election. Of particular concern is the possibility that the pick of an establishment figure from the hawkish wing of the party indicates the kind of foreign policy appointments Obama will make as president.
Obama's choice of Biden as his running mate will likely have a hugely negative impact on his once-enthusiastic base of supporters. Obama's supporters had greatly appreciated the fact that he did not blindly accept the Bush administration's transparently false claims about Iraq being an imminent danger to U.S. national security interests that required an invasion and occupation of that country. At the same time Biden was joining his Republican colleagues in pushing through a Senate resolution authorizing the invasion, Obama was speaking at a major antiwar rally in Chicago, correctly noting that Iraq's war-making ability had been substantially weakened and that the international community could successfully contain Saddam Hussein from any future acts of aggression.
In Washington, by contrast, Biden was insisting that Bush was right and Obama was wrong, falsely claiming that Iraq under Saddam Hussein severely weakened by UN disarmament efforts and comprehensive international sanctions somehow constituted both "a long-term threat and a short-term threat to our national security" and was an "extreme danger to the world." Despite the absence of any "weapons of mass destruction" or offensive military capabilities, Biden, when reminded of those remarks during an interview last year, replied, "That's right, and I was correct about that."
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By Noah, August 25, 2008 at 8:06 pm Link to this comment
Obama is a lying piece of shit. I hate to put it so bluntly, but that's exactly what he is. He is, in fact, a puppet of the war-makers, the candidate whose purpose is to soothe the conscience of those Americans who feel badly about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and make them feel that those wars are, in fact, just wars. His purpose is to peddle an image of compassion and goodness to the American public, to convince us that the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are nice, neat, clean and almost posh affairs. His purpose, in short, is to serve as an opiate to the American public, to enchant us with his lovely personality (however vestigial it may be), and make us feel that killing millions of civilians and ushering in a new global totalitarian capitalism isn't monstrous or horrible, but is actually downright fun and jolly. His purpose is to blind us and lull us to sleep, as the American government perpetuates atrocity both at home and abroad.


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Scientists think that all addictive drugs activate the brain's 'reward system', by increasing the release of the chemical dopamine from neurones in key areas of the brain. Dopamine release occurs after pleasurable experiences, for example after food or sex, but can also be induced by some drugs. Drugs that artificially increase dopamine release in this way may cause craving for more. It is possible that some people may have a genetic tendency to make them develop drug addictions extremely rapidly.