Soumya Ghosh Chowdhury

Soumya Ghosh Chowdhury is a chemical technologist from University of Calcutta, India. He has more than 14 years of experience in tyre compounding. He started his professional career with HASETRI in the material department and later worked in Truck Bus radial compounding for more than 12 years. Till now he has around 10 publications in International Journals related to tyre compounding and materials. His research interest is material and compounding related to tyres. Sustainability and failure analysis in tyres is another domain of his interest.

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Presentation

Application of modified cellulose as multi-functional additive in tyre tread

Increasing demand of bio-mass derived materials is the need for a sustainable future. Thus, cellulose, most abundant biodegradable material is modified (FAC) and used in tyre tread formulation. Potential of FAC is appraised against process oil (presence of toxic PCA materials) as well as Silane coupling agent to assess its potency as multi-functional additive (MFA). Replacement of 66% of SCA and 100% of oil with FAC has depicted comparable physico-mechanical, dynamic- mechanical, flow behaviour wrt the reference one. A plausible mechanism is also enunciated to substantiate this. Thus, this FAC can be applied to develop a cost-effective sustainable tread formulation.