TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mathew
AU  - Lakshminarayanan R
AU  - Singh R P
AU  - Thomas Sabu
TI  - Use of natural rubber latex condom waste as a potential filler in styrene butadiene rubber compounds
PY  - 1995///
PB  - Papers presented at the National Seminar on rubber blends at RRII, Kottayam, November 14, 1995
N2  - The rejection in the latex industry, owing to the unstable nature of latex compound and the strict specifications in the quality of latex products, comes to about 10 to 15;of the rubber consumed. These rejects contain about 95;lightly crosslinked very high quality rubber hydrocarbon. The paper presents a cost effective technique for the reuse of natural rubber (NR) latex condom waste in styrene butadiene rubber (SBR). The influence of powdered condom rejects on the curing characteristics, mechanical properties and failure behaviour of SBR has been investigated. More emphasis is placed on the effect of both particle size and loading of latex waste filler. Swelling studies were carried out to establish the degree of crosslinking of SBR and to assess the extent of interaction between the matrix and latex waste filler of varying particle sizes
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