Brief introduction of rubber processing technology
1. Plasticizing mechanism Rubber is plasticized to increase its plasticity. Its essence is to break rubber molecular chains and reduce the length of macromolecules. Fracture can occur not only in the main chain of macromolecules, but also in the side chain. As rubber is subject to oxygen, electricity, heat, mechanical force, plasticizer and other factors during plasticizing, the plasticizing mechanism is closely related to these factors, among which oxygen and mechanical force play an important role, and they complement each other. Generally, plasticizing can be divided into low-temperature plasticizing and high-temperature plasticizing. The former is dominated by mechanical degradation, and…