WO2023161473A1 - Procede et dispositif de production de matiere en elastomere recyclé, prete a reticulation - Google Patents
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- the present invention relates to the field of the recycling of crosslinked elastomer waste and it relates in particular to a process and a device for producing, from this waste, a material ready for crosslinking, that is to say be used directly for the production of new applications.
- DE10201 1 1 12081 relates to a discontinuous process which makes it possible to carry out vulcanization of an elastomeric material or devulcanization.
- a method is complex and expensive in that it requires several processing steps.
- crosslinking it is meant according to the invention a crosslinking of elastomeric material with sulfur, which is more generally called vulcanization, or else its crosslinking with other crosslinking agents such as peroxides, for example.
- crosslinking or decrosslinking will therefore encompass the terms vulcanization and devulcanization.
- Rubber or rubbery material are usual terms for denominating elastomers or elastomeric materials, which are more technical designations, and these usual terms will be used in the following, in this sense.
- the object of the present invention is to make it possible, from crosslinked waste, to produce a rubbery material ready for crosslinking which is effective and which in particular is affordable.
- a process for the production of rubbery material ready for crosslinking comprising: a continuous extrusion of crosslinked rubber, in the form of grains and/or shavings, comprising, preferably successively , the following steps:
- This method makes it possible to produce, in a continuous extrusion process, both the decrosslinking of the treated rubber granules or shavings, the cooling of the resulting paste and the mixing of the compounded paste with at least one crosslinking agent, in particular accelerators and activators, which continuously yield a rubbery material ready for crosslinking, which can immediately be transferred to molds or other shaping elements where crosslinking will take place.
- at least one crosslinking agent in particular accelerators and activators
- This extrusion is advantageously carried out in an extruder, which makes it possible to ensure a continuous process.
- the extruder may comprise at least one double screw, preferably co-rotating, which has a profile which may vary along its length depending on the action to be carried out (supplied, mixing, devulcanization).
- the decrosslinking step is carried out in a twin-screw type extruder (double screw), preferably co-rotating.
- the cooling step is carried out in an extruder (twin-screw), preferably the one used to carry out the decrosslinking, preferably with a screw profile adapted to the use.
- extruder twin-screw
- the mixing step is carried out in a twin-screw extruder, preferably the one used to perform the decrosslinking, preferably with a screw profile suitable for use.
- the present invention makes it possible to provide a rubbery material ready for crosslinking.
- the material is ready to be crosslinked.
- the compounded material or the compounded paste preferably includes the crosslinking agent which comprises a vulcanizing agent, an accelerator and an activating agent.
- said increase in temperature is generated by a supply of external thermal energy, by self-heating of said grains and/or chips during mechanical shearing, or else by both phenomena at the times.
- the mechanical shearing of the material produced during the start of the extrusion, generates an increase in the temperature of the sheared rubber.
- the material introduced in the form of crosslinked rubber granules or shavings, leaves the decrosslinking stage in the form of a deformable and malleable paste, also called regenerated material.
- the mechanical shear is preferably applied by means of an extruder which can be fitted with a twin-screw (co-rotating).
- each rubber has its own preferential decrosslinking temperature, depending on its nature and its constituents, and that the temperature increase caused and/or communicated during shearing must exceed this decrosslinking temperature. Generally, this temperature is above 80°C, in particular above 100°C.
- the decrosslinking step is carried out at a temperature below 350°C, preferably above 80°C and below 350°C.
- said material ready for crosslinking has a crosslinking temperature and the mixing of the cooled decrosslinked paste with said at least one crosslinking agent takes place at a temperature below this crosslinking temperature. It is in fact desirable for the aforementioned mixing step to take place sufficiently far from the decrosslinking step so that the decrosslinked paste can be cooled before the introduction of said at least one crosslinking agent, and this to avoid any reaction premature of it with the paste.
- the introduction of said at least one agent crosslinking takes place at a place where the temperature of the decrosslinked paste is below 120°C, preferably below 80°C and in particular below 60°C.
- an additional cooling of said rubbery material ready for crosslinking takes place, during harvesting, by forced convection to stop any possible premature reaction between the crosslinking agents and the paste of decrosslinked material.
- this cooling takes place outside the extruder.
- said continuous extrusion further comprises compounding of the decrosslinked material with at least one additive, during or after its cooling.
- powdery, granular, liquid or pasty materials can be considered, and in particular reinforcing fillers, such as carbon black, diluting fillers, such as clays, plasticizers, oils, antioxidants, metal oxides, anti-ozone protectors and mixtures thereof.
- reinforcing fillers such as carbon black
- diluting fillers such as clays, plasticizers, oils, antioxidants, metal oxides, anti-ozone protectors and mixtures thereof.
- crosslinking agent in the case where the crosslinking is vulcanization, sulfur is provided as vulcanizing agent, CBS (N-cyclohexyl-2-benzothiazolesulfenamide) as accelerator and zinc oxide as activator.
- CBS N-cyclohexyl-2-benzothiazolesulfenamide
- MBTS TMTD
- activators the choice of one or the other is guided by the rheological and mechanical characteristics of the desired products. manufacture with the compounded material.
- crosslinking agents are peroxides, metal oxides, phenolic resins, for example.
- a device for producing rubbery material ready for crosslinking comprising a continuous extrusion device comprising an upstream inlet end provided with a system for supplying crosslinked rubber, in grains and/or shavings, and a downstream end for harvesting said rubbery material ready for crosslinking, and, between these ends, successively a sector for decrosslinking said grains and/or shavings coming from the feed system, where said crosslinked rubber is transformed into a decrosslinked paste, a cooling sector, where the decrosslinked paste is cooled and a mixing sector provided with said downstream end, in which at least one metering device is provided for introducing into the cooled decrosslinked paste at least one crosslinking agent.
- the continuous extrusion device consists of an extruder comprising the aforementioned decrosslinking, cooling and mixing sectors in linear succession between said upstream inlet end and said downstream harvest end.
- the continuous extrusion apparatus may also comprise several extruders in succession.
- the continuous extrusion apparatus may comprise a first extruder, which comprises said upstream inlet end, the aforesaid decrosslinking and cooling sectors in linear succession and an outlet for said cooled decrosslinked paste, and a second extruder , which has an inlet, into which said cooled decrosslinked paste is directly fed from the outlet of the first extruder, said mixing sector and said downstream harvesting end.
- each of said sectors comprises a static sheath consisting of at least one sheath element and in each sheath element at least one screw driven in rotation by motor.
- the extrusion device will include one or more screws, which, depending on the case, will serve to shear the material, to putty it, to convey it from upstream to downstream, to mix matter with other constituents.
- At least one feed device is provided for introducing, into the decrosslinked paste, at least one additive.
- the characteristics mentioned for the device can also apply to the method according to the invention and vice versa.
- Figures 1 and 2 schematically represent two embodiments of a production device according to the invention.
- the decrosslinked paste obtained after the decrosslinking step, comprises a soluble fraction in an amount of between 1-40% by weight, preferably between 10-35% by weight, more preferably between 20-35% by weight, more preferably still between 3-15% by weight, relative to the total weight of the decrosslinked paste.
- the soluble fraction comprises molecules of low molecular weight and macromolecules. These macromolecules are present when the decrosslinking makes it possible to break part of the skeleton of the decrosslinked material (decrosslinked paste).
- the soluble fraction makes it possible to characterize the decrosslinking step.
- the paste ready for crosslinking has a Mooney viscosity of between 10-120, preferably between 10-80, determined according to the ISO-289 standard.
- the decrosslinking step is carried out at a temperature below 350°C, preferably above 80°C and below 350°C.
- the successive stages of decrosslinking, cooling and mixing take place in a twin-screw type extruder, preferably co-rotating.
- the device illustrated in FIG. 1 comprises an extrusion apparatus 1 which is formed of a single extruder 2.
- This comprises a sheath, consisting of several sheath elements 3, in which one or more screws are rotated by a rotary motor 4.
- the extruder 2 is divided into three successive sectors, a dereticulation sector A, a cooling sector B and a mixing sector C, which each comprise several barrel elements.
- a system for supplying the extruder with crosslinked rubber granules or shavings is provided in the form of a gravimetric feeder 5 and a pipe 6, arranged between the gravimetric feeder 5 and the The extruder 2 guides the granules or shavings to the inside of the extruder, via an open sheath element intended to receive the rubber granules or shavings.
- the screws have different roles, depending on the case, the transfer of the granules which enter the extruder downstream of the extruder and/or a shearing of the granules or chips and/ or mastication of the conveyed rubbery material, for example.
- the screws are therefore formed from an assembly of several screw elements depending on the role they have to play. There are conveying elements, chewing elements, shear...etc.
- the profile of the screws can therefore have different shapes, these shapes being imposed by the sequence of these different screw elements.
- the sheath elements of the decrosslinking sector A are advantageously provided, for example, with recessed electrical resistance means.
- the decrosslinking paste cools during its journey or is cooled by heat exchange.
- the decrosslinked material can be compounded with various additives which can then be introduced into the extruder using the usual feed devices, only one of which, which has been given the reference 7, is shown.
- the additive which can be powdery, granular, pasty or liquid, use will be made, for example, of gravimetric dispensers, syringe pumps, forced-feeding elements, known per se.
- the extruder 2 is fitted with a harvesting nozzle 9 through which a rubbery material ready for crosslinking emerges.
- the extrusion apparatus 10 as represented in FIG. 2, comprises two extruders in succession 11 and 12, each of which comprises a sheath, formed of several sheath elements 13 and 14 respectively.
- the screw or screws of each of these extruders are driven by a separate motor 15 and 16 respectively.
- the first extruder 11 is arranged upstream and covers, in the example shown, the decrosslinking sectors A and cooling B in linear succession.
- the second extruder is arranged downstream and covers the mixing sector C. Provision could be made for each of the extruders to cover another succession of sectors, and for example for the second extruder to cover all or part of the cooling sector.
- the second extruder 12 has an inlet, into which the decrosslinked, cooled and compounded paste is fed directly from the outlet of the first extruder 11.
- the beginning of the process implemented in the illustrated extrusion devices consists in setting in motion the screw of the extruder located in sector A.
- this screw is a double screw.
- the screw elements are conveyors which have the role of forward transfer of the granules which enter the extruder. These granules are first transported to the center of the extruder, then sheared and masticated as they pass through the corresponding barrel and screw elements. There, the movement of the screw elements generates mechanical shearing and caulking stress on the rubber granules. Once the extruder has stabilized, it is desirable to increase the flow rate of granules while increasing the mechanical shearing speed (speed of the two screws for example).
- the mechanical shearing of the material results in an increase in the temperature of the sheared rubber and the temperature generated, and/or imparted by the heating of sleeve elements, causes the rupture of the crosslinking bonds of the rubber, which leads to the formation of a paste decrosslinked at high temperature.
- the decrosslinked paste is then cooled, and in the examples illustrated directly mixed with various adjuvants.
- the paste comprising rubber is thus continuously compounded with other components, such as reinforcing fillers, plasticizers, oils, and other common additives for rubbers. These additives are introduced using conventional apparatus, depending on their nature.
- the advantageously compounded paste passing through sector B of the extrusion device gradually cools. It is desirable that on entering sector C for mixing with crosslinking agents, such as crosslinking accelerators or activators, the paste has a sufficiently low temperature to avoid a premature crosslinking reaction thereof.
- this temperature is below 140°C, preferably below 80°C and ideally below 60°C.
- the fillers, oils and plasticizers are therefore first introduced, where appropriate, and then only the accelerators/activators which are required for crosslinking to take place.
- the crosslinking agents are advantageously introduced as far as possible from the sector where the paste which has just been decrosslinked is at high temperature. Certain elements of the sheath of the compounding sector B can possibly be cooled. activated, for example ready to be molded) must be sufficient to mix the crosslinking agents and the decrosslinked material well. However, it should not be too long to avoid, as said above, a premature crosslinking reaction.
- the rubbery material collected at the exit of the extrusion device is a mixture which contains all the elements necessary to obtain crosslinking. It is ready to be cross-linked again, for example in molds or other shaping devices. Only a temperature increase to the crosslinking temperature is still necessary.
- the soluble fraction can be determined by the following method:
- the soluble fraction is calculated as follows:
- the soluble fraction as defined in the invention of the devulcanized (compounded) material is between 1 and 40%, preferably between 3 and 15% by weight, relative to the total weight of the decrosslinked paste.
- the decrosslinking step makes it possible to break CS or SS bonds of the material to be decrosslinked.
- this decrosslinking extends as far as the skeleton of the material to be decrosslinked, which makes it possible to break CC bonds.
- the soluble fraction when obtained, it contains macromolecules and molecules of low molecular weight, which characterizes the decrosslinking.
- the paste according to the invention (decrosslinked and/or compounded) has a devulcanization rate of between 50 and 98%, preferably between 70 and 95%, more preferably between 80 and 90%, measured according to the 'ASTM-D6814-12.
- Example 1 footing under sleeper
- This example 1 relates to a footing under a crossbeam.
- the first step is to devulcanize the chips by applying mechanical shear using the twin-screw extruder. This causes self-heating which contributes to the breakage of the CS and SS bonds of the elastomer. Part of the elastomer skeleton also breaks. Then, the decrosslinked paste obtained is cooled and then mixed with a vulcanizing agent (sulfur), an activating agent (ZnO) and at least one accelerator (CBC). This makes it possible to provide a compounded paste ready for crosslinking. This process is carried out continuously.
- the compound paste has the following characteristics:
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