Carbon Blacks in GR-S

1946 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 100-122 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Parkinson

Abstract The importance of different types of colloidal carbon as reinforcing agents for the butadiene-styrene copolymer, GR-S, has been stressed in recent papers. It has been shown that, to a first approximation, the effect of carbon blacks in this type of synthetic rubber is similar to that in natural rubber, but it has been shown also that the extremely low tensile strength and poor tearing properties of uncompounded vulcanized GR-S necessitates the addition of some form of carbon black to almost all types of compounds. The present paper considers the influence of carbon blacks in vulcanized GR-S compounds. Earlier papers have discussed the effect of carbon blacks in natural rubber.

1957 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 584-595
Author(s):  
H. W. Greensmith

Abstract A method of studying tear behavior has been described in a previous paper (Part III, subsequently referred to as III), and was illustrated by results obtained with natural rubber and GR-S gum vulcanizates, i.e., vulcanizates containing no added ingredients apart from those necessary for vulcanization. In the present paper the method is applied to vulcanizates containing different types of carbon black. Vulcanizates of this type are of considerable interest, since the carbon black can appreciably modify physical properties such as stiffness and tensile strength and can induce pronounced anisotropy in tearing, referred to by Buist as knotty tearing.


1950 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 338-346 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. S. T. T. Boonstra

Abstract It is necessary to determine the physical properties of rubbers at relatively high temperatures when products made from them are to be used at such temperatures in actual service. The term heat aging is used when the vulcanizate is tested at room temperature, exposed to elevated temperatures for given periods of time, and then tested again at room temperature. The term high-temperature strength is proposed for values obtained when the vulcanizates are tested at the actual higher service temperatures. Effective comparison of natural and synthetic rubbers is best obtained by determining tensile product values, which are the result of the combining of tensile strength and elongation values. In the evaluating of vulcanizates of tire compounds of various rubbers, another factor must be taken into account. Synthetic-rubber tires develop more heat in service than do natural-rubber tires, and the former therefore generally operate at higher temperatures than do the latter. Synthetic-rubber tires therefore require a greater high temperature strength than do natural rubber tires, but, as has been shown, synthetic rubbers actually have a lower high-temperature strength. The part played by carbon black with respect to the tensile properties of some synthetic rubbers is considered that of a substitute for crystallization in natural and other synthetic rubbers, which substitute does not, however, possess the same favorable features. Carbon black even in noncrystallizing rubbers does not increase strength; it merely shifts the optimum strength value to a higher temperature so that this temperature is in the room temperature range. The temperature coefficient of strength for Butyl and Neoprene rubbers is so large at room temperature that a few degrees' difference in temperature causes large changes in strength. The tensile strength and elongation at break of these two rubbers decrease sharply between 20 and 40° C.


2017 ◽  
Vol 744 ◽  
pp. 282-287
Author(s):  
Sarawut Prasertsri ◽  
Sansanee Srichan

This research aimed to develop the formulation of natural rubber filled with carbon black, silica and calcium carbonate for rubber calf nipple application. The reverse engineering was performed on the calf nipple product to analyze the rubber type and component by using Soxhlet extraction, thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) techniques. Furthermore, mechanical properties were examined to act as benchmark for the rubber compound design. The results showed that rubber component in the nipple product was natural rubber, whereas two filler types revealed as carbon black and calcium carbonate with 10 and 35 of the total weight. In addition, rubber nipple showed the hardness of 46±1 Shore A and tensile strength of 5.3±0.60 MPa. From the investigation of the properties of developed rubber compounds in this work, it was found that the mechanical properties depended on type and content of filler. The required mechanical properties of vulcanizates were achieved at 20 phr of carbon black (N330), 20 phr of silica and 120 phr of calcium carbonate.


1985 ◽  
Vol 58 (4) ◽  
pp. 815-829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chin-Yuan Ma ◽  
James L. White ◽  
Frederick C. Weissert ◽  
Avraam I. Isayev ◽  
Nobuyuki Nakajima ◽  
...  

Abstract A basic study of flow patterns in elastomers in the entrance region of a die has been carried out for various gum elastomers including emulsion and solution butadiene—styrene copolymers, polybutadiene, and natural rubber. All exhibit streamline flow into the entrance with the exception of a cold mastication degraded natural rubber which gave evidence of vortices in corners. A study of a die with a sharp diverging region showed dead spaces for all the elastomers. Carbon black compounds all exhibited converging streamline flow in a 180° entrance angle die and stagnant regions in the sharply diverging die. Evidence based on marker motions has been presented for slip in elastomer compounds in the entrance region.


1962 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 563-571 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Janacek

Abstract The relation between the degree of crosslinking determined by means of swelling and the theoretical total contact surface of rubber to carbon black was investigated with vulcanizates of two elastomers which were cured by various vulcanization methods and using various concentrations—even extremely high ones—of carbon blacks with different specific surface, degrees of chain structure and chemical activities. A constant, α, the magnitude of which generally depends upon the degree of agglomeration of the carbon blacks and on the chemical nature of their surface as well as on the polymers used and the vulcanization method, but which is practically unrelated to the filler concentration, has been proposed to express the relative crosslinking activity of carbon blacks.


2007 ◽  
Vol 26-28 ◽  
pp. 301-304
Author(s):  
Shuang Ye Dai ◽  
Ge You Ao ◽  
Myung Soo Kim

Carbon blacks were used as catalysts for hydrogen production through hydrocarbon decomposition. The aim of this work is to find suitable conditions for decomposition reaction to cut down the net cost of hydrogen production. Carbon blacks after hydrocarbon decomposition under different operation conditions were mixed with NBR rubber. The surface area of carbon black increased with low weight gain in methane decomposition caused by carbon deposits on the surface of carbon black aggregates, and the decrease of surface area with further weight gain might be due to the carbon deposits adhering to each other and forming bigger aggregates. The same results were gotten from decomposition of mixture gas of methane and propane. The surface area of carbon black always decreased with the development of propane decomposition reaction. With the same carbon black loading, the composites filled by carbon blacks with low weight gain in methane and methane-propane mixture gas decompositions showed higher tensile strength than those mixed with raw carbon blacks, but there were no significant differences in 300% modulus. With the increase of carbon blacks loading in all composites, 300% modulus and tensile strength always increased. The surface resistivity of composites showed that it was much easier for carbon blacks with low weight gain in methane and methane-propane mixture gas decompositions to dissipate well in the in rubber system.


1949 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 1084-1091
Author(s):  
D. G. Fisher ◽  
L. Mullins ◽  
J. R. Scott

Abstract Experiments were carried out to explore the possibility of making good electrical ebonites from various types of synthetic rubber. The ebonites produced were tested for permittivity and power factor over wide ranges of temperature and frequency. Thioplasts (Thiokols AZ and FA) apparently do not produce hard ebonitelike vulcanizates by the normal procedure. Neoprenes (GN and I) give ebonites, but with such high dielectric power loss as to be unsuitable for use as high-frequency dielectrics; moreover, if the mix contains zinc oxide, the ebonite has a very hygroscopic and therefore electrically unsatisfactory surface. Butadiene copolymers containing polar groups (butadiene-acrylonitrile types and Thiokol RD) give ebonites with high power loss, hence are not suitable for making high-grade electrical ebonites. Polybutadiene (Buna-85) and butadiene-styrene copolymers (GR-S, Hycar-EP, Buna-S) are much nearer to natural rubber as far as the radio-frequency (100 to 2,500 kc. per sec.) power loss of their ebonites is concerned. The GR-S ebonite examined was not so good as natural rubber at room temperature, but was superior above about 50° C. Buna-85 and Hycar-EP were superior to natural rubber over the whole temperature range; indeed, the high-styrene copolymers, as represented by Hycar-EP and Buna-SS, appear to be the best type of synthetic rubber for making ebonite with low power loss, especially at high frequencies and temperatures. The effects of changing temperature and frequency on permittivity and power factor are discussed. Attention is drawn to the big effect of temperature on power factor; this was less with polybutadiene and butadiene-styrene ebonites than with natural rubber ebonite, in keeping with the greater heat resistance of the former as judged by plastic yield tests. Comparison of the effects of rising temperature and decreasing frequency shows that these produce broadly similar effects on power factor, as would be expected on theoretical grounds, but that rising temperature superposes a second effect (an increase), presumably due to increased ionic conduction.


1969 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 892-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
James E. Lewis ◽  
Marvin L. Deviney ◽  
Lawrence E. Whittington

Abstract Radiochemical techniques developed for studying extender oil migration in various elastomers have been adapted for use in investigating the migration of age resisters and curatives. This paper contains basic diffusion coefficient data for nine compounds including both staining and nonstaining antioxidants and members of the sulfenamide, thiazole and thiuram accelerator series. Techniques for synthesizing these age resisters and curatives in the carbon-14 and sulfur-35 labelled form are described. Migration was studied in natural rubber, SBR, cis-polybutadiene and EPT vulcanizates. Computer techniques were used to calculate diffusion coefficients from radiochemical count data. Results from preliminary migration studies under practical curing and end-use conditions are also presented. In the case of phenyl-2-naphthylamine migration in cis-polybutadiene, a pronounced decrease in diffusivity with increasing surface area of the carbon black filler was observed.


1955 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 895-905 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Doak ◽  
George H. Ganzhorn ◽  
Bernard C. Barton

Abstract Heating unvulcanized mixtures of rubber and carbon black gives increased electrical resistivity, reduced hysteresis and hardness, higher modulus, and increased abrasion resistance to the vulcanizate. This is believed to result from improved dispersion of carbon black, accompanying a chemical reaction between rubber and carbon black. Butyl rubber, with low unsaturation, reacts more slowly than Hevea rubber or butadiene-styrene copolymers (GR-S). Chemical promoters decrease the time and temperature required for the reaction. Certain quinones and aromatic nitroso compounds are effective in both Hevea and Butyl rubber. t-Butyl perbenzoate and cumene hydroperoxide are particularly effective in Hevea rubber and GR-S containing channel black, and when used in optimum amounts, do not adversely affect tensile strength. Hexachlorocyclopentadiene and hexachlorophenol are effective in both Hevea and Butyl rubber, l,3-Dichloro-5,5-dimethylhydantoin and hexachlorocyclopentadiene are effective in Butyl containing channel or furnace blacks. Chemical promoters are believed to initiate allylic or alkyl radicals on rubber chains, which react with active centers on carbon black, forming primary valence bonds.


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