What is it about?
This article reviews several important areas related to the reclaiming, characterizing, testing, and recycling of rubber waste. These include chemical and microbial devulcanization, with emphasis on main chain scission and kinetics of chemical devulcanization reactions; the cutting-edge techniques for reclaiming devulcanized rubber waste by the action of large shearing forces, heat, and chemical agents: and analytical techniques and methods for characterizing composition and testing of devulcanized rubber waste, respectively. In addition, some aspects of the recycling of devulcanized ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDM) waste will be reposted.
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Why is it important?
Ethylene-propylene-diene rubber (EPDM) is used extensively in automotive components worldwide and recycling the rubber at the end to its useful service life is of a major importance to manufacturers of automotive components.
Perspectives
The environmental concerns about the end of life waste rubber has been growing for some years now. Although the rubber industry is highly skilled in manufacturing very useful and advanced rubber products, their ability to deal with the massive waste generated is rather limited. It is essential to review the current state of the art in this very important area of research and promote interest and a wider program of waste rubber management in the industry.
Dr Ali Ansarifar
Loughborough University
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This page is a summary of: REVIEW OF THE RECLAIMING OF RUBBER WASTE AND RECENT WORK ON THE RECYCLING OF ETHYLENE–PROPYLENE–DIENE RUBBER WASTE, Rubber Chemistry and Technology, March 2016, Rubber Division, ACS,
DOI: 10.5254/rct.15.84850.
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