Mohammad Meysami, Shuihan Zhu, and Costas Tzoganakis
Department Of Chemical Engineering, University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Elongation at break
Characterization
•Devulcanization of waste rubber with scCO2 in an extruder is an environmentally friendly continuous process;
•A reasonably high throughput of devulcanized rubber has been obtained in the devulcanization process in a twin screw extruder, which was stable
•Devulcanized rubber obtained from the devulcanization process can be re-vulcanized again by adding proper amount of curing chemicals
• To incorporate the devulcanized rubber into a virgin tire compound for material cost- reduction ;
•To study the impact of devulcanized rubber utilization on tire compound performance ;
•Mooney viscosity
•Curing characterizations
•Tensile properties ( Tensile strength, Elongation at break) •Hardness
•Hysteresis (heat build up)
•Cut and chip (% of mass loss)
20
12
Objectives
120
Mooney Viscosity
Devulcanization
Valve
Feeder
CO2
Cylinder
50 rpm
200 C
Syringe Pump
Thermocouples
35
30
25
20
15
10
0
10
20
30
40
85.5%
80
60
40
20
Pressure
Transducers
Extruder
Die
Curing characterizations
10
20
30
40
Hardness
70
65
62
63
63
62
0
10
20
30
60
55
50
45
40
35
30
Devulcanized rubber content in virgin tire compound (%)
Gear box 80.4%
Devulcanized rubber content in virgin tire compound (%)
Hardness (shore A)
Valve
Mooney viscosity (ML(1+4))
Sc Co2 injection system
94.7%
100
0
45
40
100%
0
50
Twin screw extrusion, CO2 injection, and data acquisition
Control Panel
Retention of Elongation at break
(%)
Background
Devulcanized rubber content in virgin tire compound (%)
Hysteresis
Hysteresis
1.4
30
Recipe for sample preparation