Rubber Mixing (Rapra Review Reports)

The development of rubber mixing and the machinery in use today is reviewed and the advances that have been achieved in tangential and intermeshing mixers are discussed, as well as developments in cooling systems, computer control, weighing machines and downstream operations. Specific mixing techniques are explained, together with the importance of cycle control, and problems such as machine wear and scaling up or down. Recent academic research in rubber mixing is also briefly considered, and this must provide an indication of probable practical advances in this field in the future. This review of the current state of rubber mixing is supported by an indexed section containing more than 400 key references and abstracts selected from the Rapra Abstracts database.