In this study, as the first step, the effect of partial replacement of CaCO3 with unmodified fly ash on the curing characteristics of the solid tire middle compound and the properties of its vulcanizate was investigated. ...
Preparation of low viscous and high filler loaded calcium carbonate suspension in the aqueous medium is an industrial requirement. To minimize disturbance of handling and processing, to reduce transportation costs and to ...
The performance and the life-time of a solid tyre depend on the properties of the solid tyre tread compound. Abrasion resistance and rebound resilience are the key parameters of the solid tyre tread compound. Carbon black ...
About 75% of Municipal solid waste (MSW) collected around the country is organic biomass which mainly includes food waste, wood, paper, saw dust and paddy husk. Urban councils in Colombo city and nearby suburbs collect ...
Improving properties of cement-based skim coat through controlling water absorption using a Vinyl Acetate-Ethylene copolymer
This study aims to describe and complement the existing knowledge on the effect of re-dispersible ...
The purpose of this research is to study the effect of modification of incorporation sequence of accelerator and activators on cure characteristics, physical properties, mechanical properties and dynamic properties of solid ...
I hereby would like to acknowledge the immense guidance received from my thesis
supervisor Dr. Olga Gunapala. Your support and direction to produce quality work is
highly appreciated. Also Professor Jagath Premachandra, ...
The Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) can be identified as a large group of organic
compounds. These organic compounds have two or more fused aromatic rings that contain only
carbon and hydrogen atoms. These PAHs ...
Two types of latex are used in disposable gloves manufacturing as natural latex and synthetic latex. Calcium nitrate (calcium ion) is used as the coagulant and calcium carbonate or calcium stearate is used as the former ...
Biomass combustion is used as basic technology to generate heat by humans for millennia. With the incremental needs of modern man, biomass combustion still plays a major role in heat and power generation. In Sri Lankan ...
Industrial glove industry is a glooming industry which focuses performance enhancement with lowest possible cost. Abrasion resistance is one of the main performance indicators of an industrial glove. Abrasion resistance ...
Water is the most vital natural resource that sustains all living organisms on the earth and access to safe and clean water has become a crisis due to intense water pollution by anthropogenic activities, over-pumping of ...
Carbon dioxide (CO2) as the most vital greenhouse gas in the earth’s atmosphere plays a major role in maintaining the global temperature. Higher concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere, increases amounts of heat entrapped ...
Rice husk is particularly known as one of the most common agricultural waste and the usage of rice husk in energy applications is typically via the combustion process. Using agricultural waste for combustion application ...
As the depreciation of the fossil fuels in the world, it is obligatory to discover new fuels to the highly industrialized society. With increasing requirements of the energy, it is globally focused on the use of renewable ...
This thesis outlines the analysis of heat and mass transfer process of drying of black_pepper in a spouted bed coupled with a cyclone separator. Black pepper is a widely used spice and is well-known for its pungency and ...
Rubber-clay nanocomposites at low nanoclay loadings are generally prepared using mechanical mixing method as similar to mixing of conventional fillers with rubber. However, the resultant properties prepared with mixing ...
The aim of this research is to model the moving grate combustion process by Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) method by OpenFOAM software. Kinetic data for heterogeneous reactions, specific to local fuel types is essential. ...
Solid tire industry is a rapidly growing industry all over the world with a very high demand for different kinds of material handling equipment manufacturing companies. In this case, resilient tires are playing a major ...
Cure characteristics of solid tyre middle compounds are critical as it combines the heel and the tread compounds. Also middle compound is subjected to have high heat build-up due to continuous deflection. In this study ...