Abstract
The waste rubber vulcanizate, on account of its stable, cross-linked and three-dimensional structural arrangement, is difficult to biodegrade. Thus, the ever-increasing bulk of worn-out tires is a serious environmental issue and its safe disposal is still a challenging task reported widely by the scientific community. The rubber materials, once they end their useful life, may present difficulties to be reused or recycled. At present, only one tire recycling method is used, which involves grinding and separating steel and fibers from vulcanized rubber, and then using rubber for industrial applications, such as flooring, insulation, footwear. In this paper, a new compound material is presented from a base of reused tire powder (Ground Tire Rubber: GTR) as a mixer and linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) as a matrix. The reused tire powder, resulting from grinding industrial processes, is separated by sieving into just one category of particle size (<200 μm) and mixed with the LLDPE in different amounts (0%, 5%, 10%, 20%, 40%, 50% and 70% GTR). Due to the good electrical properties of the LLDPE, this study’s focus is settled on the electrical behavior of the obtained composites. The test of the dielectric behavior is carried out by means of DEA test (Dynamic Electric Analysis), undertaken at a range of temperatures varying from 30 to 120 °C, and with a range of frequencies from 1 to 102, to 3·106 Hz, from which permittivity, conductivity, dielectric constant and electric modulus have been obtained. From these experimental results and their analysis, it can be drawn that the additions of different quantities of GTR to LLDPE could be used as industrial applications, such as universal electrical cable joint, filler for electrical applications or cable tray systems and cable ladder system.
Highlights
Tire rubber wastes are a serious world environment problem and its safe disposal is still a challenging task reported widely by the scientific community [1,2], the main cause is due to the difficulties in rubber waste recycled, that causes harmful environmental effects
The test of the dielectric behavior is carried out by means of DEA test (Dynamic Electric Analysis), undertaken at a range of temperatures varying from 30 to 120 ◦ C, and with a range of frequencies from 1 to 102, to 3·106 Hz, from which permittivity, conductivity, dielectric constant and electric modulus have been obtained. From these experimental results and their analysis, it can be drawn that the additions of different quantities of GTR to linear low-density polyethylene (LLDPE) could be used as industrial applications, such as universal electrical cable joint, filler for electrical applications or cable tray systems and cable ladder system
Conductivity (σ) as well as real permittivity (ε0 ) and dielectric loss factor (ε”), in the LLDPE blended with GTR particles, increase with the GTR concentration of the analyzed compounds (LLDPE + GTR)
Summary
Tire rubber wastes are a serious world environment problem and its safe disposal is still a challenging task reported widely by the scientific community [1,2], the main cause is due to the difficulties in rubber waste recycled, that causes harmful environmental effects. The tire industries, as the main application of rubbers (65% of the global rubber production), generate the largest amounts of tire waste materials. Many efforts are being made to find new fields of application that can absorb the large amount of waste tire rubber that is generated yearly. The use of these materials as reinforcements or blends in composite materials has been widely studied in many works [5,6,7], but the presence of these in composites of polymeric matrix modifies physical characteristics, for instance, dielectric, mechanical, thermal behavior.
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