Industrial application in rubber

Nitrile rubbers, the original driving force behind acrylonitrile production, have taken a less significant place as end-use products. They are butadiene-acrylonitrile copolymers with an acrylonitrile content ranging from 15 to 45%, and find industrial applications in... 

Petroleum-derived butanol is currently used in food and cosmetic industries as an extractant (11), but there are concerns about its carcinogenic aspects associated with the residual petroleum components. Many new uses will occur in these fields as "green" butanol becomes available to the market. Other uses include current industrial applications in solvents, rubber monomers, and break fluids. Butanol has the propensity to solve some infrastructure problems associated with fuel cell use. Dispersed through existing pipelines and filling stations and then reformed onboard the fuel cell vehicle, butanol offers a safer fuel with more hydrogen. 

C. E. Schildknecht, Vinyl and Related Polymers Their Preparations, Properties, and Applications in Rubbers, Plastics, Fibers, and in Medical and Industrial Arts, John Wiley Sons, Inc., New York, 1952, pp. 387—388. 

One of the most widely used polymers in industry is natural rubber. The industrial application of rubber is based on its exceptional elastic properties. From a chemical point of view, rubber consists exclusively of poly(m-l,4-isoprene), whose repeating unit is... 

Polypropylene is also used in a number of blends, some of them with applications in rubber industry, automotive industry, home constructions, etc. Some of the copolymers and blends used in rubber industry are vulcanized. Studies on thermal properties and pyrolysis of these copolymers and blends are common in literature [97, 105,110-118]. 

Diethylamine is used as a flotation agent in dyes and pharmaceuticals and in resins. It also finds applications in rubber and petroleum industry. 

Carbon disulfide is a volatile organic solvent, used mainly as a starting material in rayon manufacture in the viscose process. It was important historically in the cold vulcanization of rubber. Although no longer used in this form, carbon disulfide is still a major industrial precursor in rubber industry chemical synthesis and has a number of other industrial applications. Carbon disulfide is also widely used as a solvent in a variety of laboratory settings. Carbon disulfide is a metabolite of the drug disulfiram (see pp 186) and is a spontaneous breakdown by-product of the pesticide metam sodium. 

MAJOR APPLICATIONS Although sulfur has many industrial applications in the area of organic and inorganic synthesis, in the field of pwlymer science and engineering it is probably best known for it use in the vulcanization of natural rubber and related unsaturated polymer chains (see Coran and pertinent references cited therein). 

Calcium carbonate (CaCOs) has been widely used as a model system for studying the bio-inspired mineralization process due to its abundance in nature and also its important industrial applications in paints, plastics, rubber, and paper [344], Bio-inspired synthesis of CaCOs crystals in the presence of organic templates and/or additives has been intensively investigated and recent reviews show the wealth of resnlts obtained in the last few years [44,45). 

The sort of droplet-like structure developed by Novamont (Figure 8.5) is easily dispersible in rubbers and allows a decrease of hysteresis in the final rubber compositions, which is useful for low rolling resistance treads in tyres. The first industrial application in this field was made by Goodyear in 2001, when the Biotread GT3 tyre was launched in Europe [132-136]. 

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Nitrile mbber finds broad application in industry because of its excellent resistance to oil and chemicals, its good flexibility at low temperatures, high abrasion and heat resistance (up to 120°C), and good mechanical properties. Nitrile mbber consists of butadiene—acrylonitrile copolymers with an acrylonitrile content ranging from 15 to 45% (see Elastomers, SYNTHETIC, NITRILE RUBBER). In addition to the traditional applications of nitrile mbber for hoses, gaskets, seals, and oil well equipment, new applications have emerged with the development of nitrile mbber blends with poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC). These blends combine the chemical resistance and low temperature flexibility characteristics of nitrile mbber with the stability and ozone resistance of PVC. This has greatly expanded the use of nitrile mbber in outdoor applications for hoses, belts, and cable jackets, where ozone resistance is necessary. 

Two-roll mills are used rnainlv for preparing color pastes for the ink, paint, and coating industries. There are a few applications in heaw-diitv blending of rubber stocks, for which corrugated and masticating rolls are often used. 

There are many rubber eompounds used in industry as o-ring seeondary seals. Some elastomerie eompounds are only found in one or two sealing applications in one industry. We have listed the following four eompounds, which find broad popularity in almost any production plant. 

The excellent chemical resistance of Aflas has led to important applications in oilfields and, more recently, in the car industry in place of FKM rubbers because of the better resistance to new types of engine oils, transmission fluids, gear lubricants and engine coolants. 

The poly(vinyl ethers), whieh were first made available in Germany before 1940, are not of importance in the plastics industry but have applications in adhesives, surfaee coatings and rubber technology. Of the many vinyl ether polymers prepared, only those from the vinyl alkyl ethers and some halogenated variants are of interest. Two methods of monomer preparations may be used. 

The polymer is a water-soluble viscous liquid which has found application in the adhesive and rubber industries. One particular use has been a heat sensitiser used in the manufacture of rubber latex dipped goods. 

Rubber base adhesives, also called elastomeric adhesives, are widely used in industrial and household applications. In fact, about one-third of the adhesives used in the World are made from natural or synthetic rubbers. Some of the elastomeric adhesive systems showing industrial importance in recent years are the following ... 

Thermoplastic block copolymers were used for pressure-sensitive and hot-melt rubber adhesives as from the middle sixties. These adhesives found application in packaging, disposable diapers, labels and tapes, among other industrial markets. The formulation of these adhesives generally includes an elastomer (generally containing styrene endblocks and either isoprene, butadiene or ethylene-butylene midblocks) and a tackifier (mainly a rosin derivative or hydrocarbon resin). 

Another common device used in the rubber industry is the thin film evaporator. This device is very often used in the manufacture of ultra-low molecular weight elastomers that are used in sealant applications or specialty coatings, and as processing aids in conventional rubber compounding processes. The thin film evaporator described earlier, has found a multitude of other industry applications, including food processing operations. 

Besides its usage in foods, indene polymer is used in the coatings industry, inks, floorings and in rubber applications. Some use has been made of the nitrated polymer as an ingredient in fuze powder (substituting for charcoal), but because of the sensy to impact this use is discontinued (Ref 3)... 

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