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Proceedings of the World Congress on Engineering 2009 Vol I WCE 2009, July 1 - 3, 2009, London, U.K.  New Cooling Channel Design for I njection Moulding  A B M Saifullah, S.H. Masood and Igor Sbarski  Abstract— Injection moulding is one of the most versatile and important operation for mass production of plastic parts. In this process, cooling system design is very important as it largely determines the cycle time. A good cooling system design can reduce cycle time and achieve dimensional stability of the part. This paper describes a new square sectioned conformal cooling channel system for injection moulding dies. Both simulation and experimental verification have been done with these new cooling channels system. Comparative analysis has been done for an industrial part, a plastic bowel, with conventional cooling channels using the Moldflow simulation software. Experimental verification has been done for a test plastic part with mini injection moulding machine. Comparative results are present ed based on temperature distribution on mould surface and cooling time or freezing time of the plast ic part. The results provide a uniform temperature distribution with reduced freezing time and hence reduction in cycle time for the plastic part. Index Terms—Conformal cooling channel, Cycle time Moldflow, Square shape. I. INTRODUCTION Injection moulding is a widely used manufacturing process in the production of plastic parts [1]. The basic principle of injection moulding is that a solid polymer is molten and injected into a cavity inside a mould which is then cooled and the part is ejected fro m the machine. Therefore the main phases in an injection moulding process involve filling, cooling and ejection. The cost-effectiveness of the process is mainly dependent on the time spent on the moulding cycle in which the cooling phase is the most signific