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Major reduction in chemical curatives for rubber articles
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posted on 2019-05-20, 12:13 authored by Ali Ansarifar, Saad H. SheikhThe sulfur cure system in the ethylene-propylene-diene (EPDM)-based Curtain Wall Seal (CWS) has two accelerators, adding up to 2.75 parts per hundred rubber (phr) by weight, and two activators (ZnO: 5phr, stearic acid:1phr). In total, 8.75phr chemicals are used to fully cure the article with 1phr elemental sulfur. Excessive use of chemical curatives is harmful to health, safety, and the environment. A new method uses experimental results from high temperature cure tests to provide highly efficient cure systems for industrial rubber articles, which requires a lot less chemical curatives without compromising cure efficiency. This method can be applied to reduce chemical curatives in other industrial rubber articles.
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- Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering
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- Materials
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Academic Journal of Polymer SciencePages
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ANSARIFAR, A. and SHEIKH, S.H., 2019. Major reduction in chemical curatives for rubber articles. Academic Journal of Polymer Science, 2 (4), 555594.Publisher
Juniper Publishers © Ali AnsarifarVersion
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