Curing Characteristics And Mechanical Properties Of Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) Filled With Industrial Waste Derived Ashes

Mesri, Masturah (2019) Curing Characteristics And Mechanical Properties Of Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) Filled With Industrial Waste Derived Ashes. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

	Text (24 Pages) Curing Characteristics And Mechanical Properties Of Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) Filled With Industrial Waste Derived Ashes.pdf - Submitted Version Download (455kB)
	Text (Full text) Curing Characteristics And Mechanical Properties Of Styrene Butadiene Rubber (SBR) Filled With Industrial Waste Derived Ashes.pdf - Submitted Version Restricted to Registered users only Download (6MB)

Abstract

Styrene butadiene rubber (SBR) is a kind of synthetic rubber which is polymerized by using the monomers, styrene and butadiene. SBR are mainly polymers synthesized from petroleum byproducts. SBR has become one of the most important synthetic rubbers in the world because of its huge production. Generally, SBR is reinforced with filler such as carbon black (CB) to increase mechanical properties of rubber compound for specific purpose. Fly ash (FA) and oil palm ash (OPA) are two types of industrial waste that can be potentially used as filler in SBR. Both ashes can be used as filler to reduce environmental effect, air pollution and dumping area of industrial waste ashes. In this study, the relationship between FA, OPA and CB also the properties of SBR (based compounds) was investigated. Rubber compounds were produced by two roll mill and followed with curing process, before evaluated. The total content of fillers was varied at 0, 3, 5 and 10 phr. In the evaluation of the rubber compounds, the main focus was the curing characteristics, mechanical properties and physical properties of the SBR compounds. Curing characteristics of SBR compounds added with waste derived fillers were measured by adding different filler loading of three types of fillers to the rubber compounds. Besides that, two types of hybrid fillers, i.e., CB-OPA and CB-FA were also studied. In the result, the rubber compounds contained CB-OPA and CB-FA filler exhibited second higher tensile strength, elongation at break, tear strength, viscosity and hardness and attributed to effective filler dispersion. These conclusions were supported by the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and swelling test.

Actions (login required)

View Item