Rubber Recycling explains the details of the various processes currently available to breakdown, recycle, and reuse crosslinked rubber

Features:

• Offers sound solutions to a serious, though mostly ignored waste issue
• Introduces six chapters of updated information on new uses and practical applications found nowhere else
• Involves leading experts from across the world
• Provides significant background information on both the fundamentals of rubber manufacturing and the history of recycling
• Presents compelling market driven motivations for industry to reinvest itself in rubber recycling

Contents

• Manufacturing Practices for the Development of Crumb Rubber Materials from Whole Tires
• Quality Performance Factors for Tire-Derived Materials
• Untreated and Treated Rubber Powder
• Tire Rubber Recycling by Mechanochemical Processing
• Recycling Cross-Linked Networks via High-Pressure, High-Temperature Sintering
• Powdered Rubber Waste in Rubber Compounds
• Rubber Recycling by Blending with Plastics
• Strategies for Reuse of Rubber Tires
• Ultrasonic Devulcanization of Used Tires and Waste Rubbers
• Devulcanization by Chemical and Thermomechanical Means
• Conversion of Used Tires to Carbon Black and Oil by Pyrolysis
• Markets for Scrap Tires and Recycled Rubber

Index

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