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Extraction of silica from rice husk for rubber-cord adhesion systems of tire industry

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Rice husk is a valuable biomass that contains large amounts of amorphous silica. This study aims to present a simple combined thermal and chemical method of silica extraction from Iranian rice husk and to investigate the effect of operating conditions on the morphology of the obtained silica. The work also studied the effects of the extracted silica loading in two standard adhesion systems in the tire formulations, namely, rubber adhesion to resorcinol-formaldehyde-latex (RFL) coated polyester cords and rubber adhesion to brass-plated steel cords. The obtained amorphous silica showed different surface area in the range of 73 to 341 m2/g, which presented different rubber-cord adhesion values in rubber formulations. It was found that the pH of the precipitation step is the controlling factor of the silica surface area, which itself has a significant effect on the rubber-cord adhesion behavior. The decarbonization temperature of 700 ± 100 °C and the precipitation pH of 6 are favorable operating conditions for the production of amorphous silica, which is suitable for rubber-to-cord adhesion systems.

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Mehdi Shiva: conceptualization, methodology, investigation, writing—original draft, visualization investigation, project administration. Morteza Golmohammadi: conceptualization, methodology, investigation, writing—original draft, visualization investigation. Fatemeh Nouroozi: material preparation, data collection, and analysis.

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Shiva, M., Golmohammadi, M. & Nouroozi, F. Extraction of silica from rice husk for rubber-cord adhesion systems of tire industry. Biomass Conv. Bioref. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-023-03893-8

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