Juniper Publishers Journal of Polymer science

                                                  JUNIPER PUBLISHERS-   ACADEMIC JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE Opinion The sulfur cure system in the ethylene-propylene-diene (EPDM)-based Curtain Wall Seal (CWS) has two accelerators, adding up to 2.75 parts per hundred rubber (phr) by weight, and two activators (ZnO: 5phr, stearic acid:1phr) [1]. In total, 8.75phr chemicals are used to fully cure the article with 1phr elemental sulfur. In rubber formulations, chemical curatives are indispensable and once reacted with sulfur at elevated temperature, they produce crosslinks between the rubber chains and provide shape stability, which is essential for the performance, durability and life of the final product in service. Excessive use of chemical curatives is harmful to health, safety, and the environment. According to the European Directive 67/548/E...

JUNIPER PUBLISHERS- ACADEMIC JOURNAL OF POLYMER SCIENCE Abstract In this paper, solid fuels made of plant biomass were studied as an alternative to fossil coals. For this purpose, experimental and calculation methods were applied to determine the standard change of internal energy or specific energy of combustion )(ociUΔ standard enthalpies of combustion ()ociHΔ and formation ()ofiHΔ for individaual components of plant biomass (lignin, cellulose, hemicelluloses, extractives, etc.), as well as of some additives of solid biofuels. The experiments were carried out using an oxygen bomb calorimeter, whereas calculations were performed by the equation: where E = -413 kJ/mol, c, h and o is number of atoms C, H and O, respectively, in molecule of organic substance or in repeat unit of polymer. Using the results obtained for individual components, the standard thermodynamic characteristics (TDC), oY , of various biomasses and their based fuels were found according to ad...