Structuring Eco-Friendly Elastomeric Composite Materials

Abstract

For the waste rubber recycling, it is obligative to know the chemical composition of the waste products, if it is to be used in the new composite elastomeric material formulation. The composite elastomeric materials obtained from the waste rubber powder have a very diverse application (farm floors, sports stadiums, tyres production, in construction as a vibration protection material). The aim of this work was to prepare elastomeric composites based on recycled elastomer powder (REP). A few types of elastomeric materials were synthesized based on natural rubber, polybutadiene rubber, styrene-butadiene rubber, (NR/BR/SBR, 40/40/20 phr), carbon black and recycled elastomer powder were synthesized. It was assessed that composites NR/BR/SBR/REP have shorter optimum curing time tc90 than samples without REP. By increasing the REP content the tc90 value and tensile strength are decreasing, but the abrasion resistance is increasing.

Kod recikliranja otpadne gume neophodno je poznavati hemijski sastav otpadnog proizvoda, ukoliko će se on koristiti u recepturama za nove hibridne elastomerne materijale. Kompozitni elastomerni materijali dobijeni od praha otpadne gume imaju veoma raznovrsnu primenu (podovi na farmama, sportski stadioni, dobijanje pneumatika, u građevinarstvu kao materijali za zaštitu od vibracija itd). Cilj ovog rada je bio da se dobiju elastomerni kompoziti na osnovu reciklirane gume. Sintetisano je nekoliko tipova elastomernih materijala na osnovu prirodnog kaučuka, stiren-butadienskog kaučuka i polibutadienskog kaučuka (NR/BR/SBR, 40/40/20 phr), čestica čađi i recikliranog gumenog praha. Ustanovljeno je da kompoziti NR/BR/SBR/REP imaju kraće optimalno vreme umrežavanja u poređenju sa uzorcima NR/BR/SBR bez REP. Porastom količine REP smanjuje se vreme optimalnog umrežavanja i prekidna črstoća, a povećava se otpornost na abraziju.