Traditional rubber products contain rubber and multiple additives. Unfortunately, many of these materials are obtained from fossil fuel sources, resulting in environmental hazards, overuse of dwindling reserves, and reliance on a volatile petroleum market price. The need for the use of more sustainable materials in the rubber industry is clear, and advances are being made towards this goal. This unique book highlights these developments in the science and technology of sustainable materials in the rubber and allied industries and covers both rubber materials and the ingredients necessary to make a product and also legislation and regulations pertaining to these.
KEY FEATURES
Offers expert perspectives from both industry and academia
Addresses realworld problems and offers solutions
Provides uptodate literature on sustainable materials in these industries
Discusses natural and synthetic rubbers and their sustainable monomers and thermoplastic elastomers
Details sustainable fillers, curing agents and activators, antidegradants, resins, process aids, etc.
Deals with sustainable textiles and steel for reinforcement
Covers rubber recycling as well as regulations and legislation
This book is aimed at engineers, scientists, and researchers in materials science, chemistry, and related fields who are seeking to provide a sustainable alternative for this crucial industry.
1. Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Sustainable Growth, and
Circularity.
2. Natural Rubber as Sustainable Material.
3. Rubbers from New
Sustainable Monomers.
4. Synthetic Rubbers and the Need for Sustainability.
5. Particulate and BiomassDerived Fillers for Rubbers.
6. Short FibreBased
Fillers for Rubbers.
7. Reinforcing Materials (Textile and Steel) Drive
towards Sustainability.
8. Curatives, Protective Agents, and Miscellaneous
Ingredients.
9. Resins.
10. Processing Aids.
11. Thermoplastic Elastomers and
Thermoplastic Vulcanizates.
12. Recycling of Rubber Products.
13.
Devulcanization of Rubber.
14. Legislations and Regulations.
Anil K. Bhowmick is currently a Research Professor at the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, USA. He was a former Professor of Eminence, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur, and former Head of Rubber Technology Centre and Dean of Postgraduate Studies and Dean (Sponsored Research and Industrial Consultancy), IIT Kharagpur, India. He is the Founder Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna.
Rabindra Mukhopadhyay is the Director and Chief Executive of Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer and Tyre Research Institute (HASETRI); Director (Research and Development), JK Tyre and Industries Ltd; President, Indian Rubber Materials Research Institute (IRMRI); and Chairman of the Indian Rubber Institute (IRI).
Jagannath Chanda is a Senior Research Scientist at Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer and Tyre Research Institute (HASETRI), Mysore, India. He earned a BTech in polymer science and technology at the University of Calcutta, an MTech in polymer science and engineering at IIT Delhi, and a PhD at the Leibnitz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany.
Barun Kumar Samui is the Principal Scientist of Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer and Tyre Research Institute (HASETRI), Mysore, India. He has over 30 years of industrial experience, and he is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers (India) and a member of the Indian Rubber Institute (IRI).
Riya Koley is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chemical Engineering Department at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada. She earned a PhD at the Rubber Technology Centre, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur. With industrial experience at Machino Polymers Limited, Gurgaon, and prior work as a project officer on the MHRDfunded Uchhatar Avishkar YojanaHPN project, she has a strong background in academia and industry.
