Anticorrosive Rubber Lining

Though a standard norm or absolute reference value is not available for comparison in any of the international standard specifications and the technical and research publications with respect to the chemical resistance properties of rubber, liquid immersion tests certainly provide relative and useful data with which the suitability of anticorrosive rubber lining compounds can be assessed with a fair degree of accuracy. For this reason manufacturers and applicators of rubber lining resort to tests under simulated conditions instead of accelerated ageing immersion or swelling tests. 

Since the advent of the first rubber lining, research and development work continued and today s rubber technology took a different shape from eraser-to-tyre technology to a more sophisticated high technology discipline known as anticorrosive rubber or... 

The differences in the usage of rubber compounds for various applications. For example, compounds used for anticorrosive tank linings are quite different from compounds tailored for other dynamic working conditions and mechanical applications [1],... 

It has been estimated that the consumption of rubber in ebonite products increased on an average of about 6% a year until 1951 when different plastics appeared in the market as competitive materials [6]. But because of the superiority of ebonites in acid and chlorine duties, it still maintains its place in the process industries as a material of construction as evidenced by its increased use in anticorrosive lining of chemical process vessels and tanks for the process industries and rolls for steel and textile and paper and pulp industries. 

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