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Rubber Powder – A Perspective Filler of Thermoplastics
Author(s) -
Wagenknecht Udo,
Steglich Stefanie,
Wiessner Sven,
Michael Hannes
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
macromolecular symposia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.257
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1521-3900
pISSN - 1022-1360
DOI - 10.1002/masy.200550324
Subject(s) - natural rubber , compounding , materials science , polypropylene , plastics extrusion , filler (materials) , composite material , limiting , dispersion (optics) , mechanical engineering , physics , optics , engineering
Rubber powder, ground at ambient temperature, was compounded with polypropylene using only 16 L/D of a co‐rotating twin screw extruder. An optimum of extruder configuration and selected process parameters were found for compounds with a rubber filling rate of 50 wt.‐%. Restrictions of a reactive compounding were taken into account. The dispersion of the rubber powder is not a limiting process. A compound containing 70 wt.‐% rubber powder showed to be overfilled.
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