Sustainable Materials for Rubber and Allied Industries

by Anil K. Bhowmick, Rabindra Mukhopadhyay, Jagannath Chanda, Barun Kumar Samui, Riya Koley

Overview

Traditional rubber products contain rubber and multiple additives. Unfortunately, many of these materials are obtained from fossil fuel sources, resulting in environmental hazards, overuse of dwindling reserves, and reliance on a volatile petroleum market price. The need for the use of more sustainable materials in the rubber industry is clear and advances are being made toward this goal. This unique book highlights these developments in the science and technology of sustainable materials in the rubber and allied industries. It covers both rubber materials and the ingredients necessary to make a product, as well as pertinent legislation and regulations.

• Offers expert perspectives from both industry and academia.

• Addresses real-world problems and offers solutions.

• Discusses natural and synthetic rubbers and their sustainable monomers and thermoplastic elastomers.

• Details sustainable fillers, curing agents and activators, antidegradants, resins, and process aids.

• Explores sustainable textiles and steel for reinforcement.

• Covers rubber recycling as well as regulations and legislation.

This book is aimed at engineers, scientists, and researchers in materials science, chemistry, and related fields who are seeking to provide a sustainable alternative for this crucial industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781040410530
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	09/23/2025
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	724

About the Author

Anil K. Bhowmick is Research Professor in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston. He is a former Professor of Eminence, former Head of Rubber Technology Centre, and former Dean (Postgraduate Studies and Sponsored Research & Industrial Consultancy) at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. Prof. Bhowmick is the Founder Director of the Indian Institute of Technology, Patna.

R. Mukhopadhyay is Director & CE of Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer and Tyre Research Institute, India. He is the Chairman of the Indian Rubber Institute and President of the Indian Rubber Material Research Institute.

Jagannath Chanda is a Senior Research Scientist in Research and Development at Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer and Tyre Research Institute, India. He received his PhD in polymer chemistry from Leibniz Institute of Polymer Research, Dresden, Germany.

Barun Kumar Samui is Principal Scientist at Hari Shankar Singhania Elastomer and Tyre Research Institute, India. He is a visiting faculty of the Indian Rubber Institute, a Fellow of the Institution of Engineers, India, as well as an empaneled assessor of National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories, India.

Riya Koley received a PhD in sustainable materials from the Rubber Technology Centre, IIT Kharagpur. She worked as a project officer in a MHRD-funded Uchhatar Avishkar Yojana-HPN project. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Chemical Engineering Department at Polytechnique Montréal, Canada.

Table of Contents

0. Front Matter. 1. Sustainability, sustainable development, sustainable growth and circularity. 2. Natural rubber as sustainable material. 3. Rubbers from new sustainable monomers. 4. Synthetic rubbers and the need for Sustainability. 5. Particulate and biomass derived fillers for rubbers. 6. Short fiber-based fillers for rubbers. 7. Reinforcing materials (textile and steel) - Drive towards sustainability. 8. Curatives, protective agents and miscellaneous ingredients. 9. Resins. 10. Processing aids. 11. Thermoplastic elastomers and thermoplastic vulcanizates. 12. Recycling of rubber products. 13. Rubber devulcanization. 14. Legislations and regulations.