Abstract
This article discusses a project by Louisville (Kentucky) Water to study the effects of chloramines, used for disinfection, on various rubber compounds used in the water supply industry. The study was begun in the early 1990s. To examine real‐world applications, the study created aqueous environments, with higher temperature and chlorine concentration, that would degrade or break down certain elastomers such as natural rubber, neoprene, nitrile, styrene butadiene rubber (SBR), and ethylene propylene diene monomer (EPDM). The study discovered that different rubber compounds degraded at different rates and in different ways. This article discusses the means by which failure occured.
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