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Composites based on cotton fabrics, acrylic rubber and powder from used tires: thermal and electrical characterization

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Tire production shows a high annual growth followed by approximately the same increase in waste generation. Because used tires present an insignificant degree of natural degradation, having high strength, elasticity and long life time, a series of new technologies for tire waste processing were developed. A new method may consist of the using of tires as raw materials in the obtaining of composites for house and industrial applications. Such composites may be obtained from rubber powder of tires, fabrics from used textiles and rubber solutions. These composites can be characterized in terms of thermal characteristics with the aid of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) connected with simultaneous FT-IR/MS analysis and with dielectric relaxation spectroscopy. With Netzsch “Thermokinetics-3” software it was demonstrated that the thermal degradation is complicated and takes place in several stages. Through FT-IR and MS analysis of the products released during thermal degradation it has been established that the main gases are CO, CO2, methane, ethane, ethene, propane propene, butane, butene, C5 fractions, unsaturated and higher saturated hydrocarbons and aromatic products.

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Access to the research infrastructure developed through the European Social Fund for Regional Development, Competitiveness Operational Programme Axis 1, Action: 1.1.3, Project “Infra SupraChem Lab–Center for Advanced Research in Supramolecular Chemistry” (Contract 339/390015/25.02.2021, cod MySMIS: 108983) is gratefully acknowledged.

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    Florin St. C. Mustata & Antonela Curteza

  2. Petru Poni Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, 41A Grigore Ghica Voda Alley, 700487, Iasi, Romania

    Mihai Asandulesa & Cristian–Dragos Varganici

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Mustata, F.S.C., Asandulesa, M., Varganici, C. et al. Composites based on cotton fabrics, acrylic rubber and powder from used tires: thermal and electrical characterization. J Therm Anal Calorim 148, 3325–3339 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10973-022-11928-x

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