What are the properties of recycled rubber?

25/09/2024
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(1)Reclaimed rubber is cheap and stable cost of rubber products, mainly affected by the price of natural rubber and synthetic rubber, and the price of reclaimed rubber is only 1/4~1/5 of the price of rubber, mixing part of the reclaimed rubber in rubber products can greatly reduce the cost of rubber products.
(2) Low power consumption due to the excellent plasticity of recycled rubber, with uniform dispersion of the agent, so the mixing power than other raw materials need to be much smaller than the rubber.
(3) Ease of Sheet Out and Pressing Compared with the mixing rubber of natural rubber or synthetic rubber, the mixing rubber of reclaimed rubber is extremely easy in operations such as sheet out and pressing. This is because the recycled rubber acts as a lubricant and improves the fluidity of the rubber.
(4) Expansion and contraction of unvulcanised rubber products The expansion and contraction of unvulcanised rubber mixed with reclaimed rubber is much smaller than that of unvulcanised rubber with only new rubber during processing, which makes it easy to process, and gives the finished products accurate shapes and sizes.
(5) plasticity stabilisation which is an important quality feature of recycled rubber. Natural rubber lacks considerable uniformity in plasticity and other properties, and plasticity grows rapidly after moulding, but the plasticity of recycled rubber after moulding is very little affected. This characteristic receives the effect of easy processing and maintaining the uniformity of the product.
(6)Good vulcanisation flatness, small vulcanisation reduction The rubber mixed with recycled rubber has the characteristic of difficult to change the vulcanisation speed, and also has obvious vulcanisation flatness. Vulcanisation reduction is a softening phenomenon caused by oversulphur, but the recycled rubber compounds have almost no such tendency, so in the new rubber and with recycled rubber, can make this tendency to reduce.
(7) Oil resistance, aging resistance with the recycled rubber vulcanisation compounds with excellent oil resistance, this is because the polarity of recycled rubber is greater than the polarity of ordinary vulcanised rubber. With the recycled rubber rubber products with the aging resistance is generally good. This is because the reclaimed rubber has been pre-treated with intense processes such as vulcanisation, compounding and oxidation. The rubber hydrocarbon has become a stable state that can no longer be changed. It has good weathering resistance, especially when exposed to sunlight.
(8)Reclaimed rubber is an excellent rubber filler Reclaimed rubber contains a large amount of carbon black and zinc oxide, so mixing with reclaimed rubber can reduce the amount of carbon black and zinc oxide in the rubber material.
(9) The mechanical properties of reclaimed rubber are low Reclaimed rubber is a mixture of rubber, carbon black, various softeners, and cooperating agents, which reduces the tensile strength, tear resistance and elongation of raw rubber. Reclaimed rubber has poor elasticity and large flex-cracking.