DeLink technology

One of the more recent presentations describing the technical aspects of the DeLink process, its economic and environmental benefits, and the properties of rubber compounds containing the DR was presented by Nieto of Green Rubber Global at the ACS Rubber Division Fall Meeting in 2009 [42]. It is also the case that DR that results from the use of the DeLink technology can be referred to as De-Vulc [43]. 

A technology for the devulcanization of sulfur-cured scrap elastomers was developed, (Kohler and O Neill, 1997a,b) using a material termed Delink (Sekhar and Kormer, 1995), and this technique was designated as the Delink process. In this process, 100 parts of 40 mesh or finer mbber crumb is mixed with... 

Some of the earliest cited practical, third-party trials of DeLink were reported in Plastics and Rubber Weekly [6]. The article covered the official launch for DeLink at the International Seminar and Workshop on Devulcanisation Using DeLink R Process that was held at the TARRC laboratories (then MRPRA). Papers that were presented generally endorsed the claims made by STI-K that the rubber devulcanised by DeLink can be used in manufacture or blended with fresh rubber compound to obtain the desired levels of technological performance. Rubber that had been devulcanised with DeLink had been used successfully to ... 

Table 5.5 Comparison of the results obtained using DeLink, Levgum and ReTurn technologies with a control sample prepared using 40 mesh unmodified crumb rubber ...

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