Ground Tire Rubber Recycling in Applications as Insulators in Polymeric Compounds, According to Spanish UNE Standards

The polymers used in this study were: polyvinyl chloride (PVC); highdensity polyethylene (HDPE); ethylene vinyl acetate (EVA) copolymer (18% of vinyl acetate and 82% ethylene); polypropylene (PP); acrylonitrile butadiene-styrene (ABS), which is composed of 30% acrylonitrile, 20% butadiene, and 50% styrene; polyamide 6 (PA 6), also known as nylon 6; polystyrene (PS). The properties of these seven polymeric materials are summarized. We analyzed the ground tire rubber (GTR) with a microparticle size under 200 μm using thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA) itest with the carbon black compound at approximately 35%. The GTR was ground by sieving into one particle size, lower than 200 microns.