Soumya Ghosh Chowdhury

Soumya Ghosh Chowdhury is a chemical technologist from the University of Calcutta, India. He has more than 14 years of experience in tire compounding having started his professional career with HASETRI in the material department, working in truck and bus radial compounding for more than 12 years. He has around 10 publications in international journals relating to tire compounding and materials. His research interest is in tire-related material and compounding. Sustainability and failure analysis in tires is another interest.

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Presentation

Application of modified cellulose as a multifunctional additive in tire tread

A sustainable future requires increasing demand for biomass-derived materials. Thus, cellulose, the most abundant biodegradable material, is modified (FAC) and used in tire tread formulation. The potential of FAC is appraised against that of process oil (presence of toxic PCA materials) as well as silane coupling agents to assess its potency as a multifunctional additive (MFA). The replacement of 66% of SCA and 100% of oil with FAC has shown comparable physico-mechanical, dynamic-mechanical flow behavior with reference to the reference one. A plausible mechanism is also offered to substantiate this. Thus, this FAC can be applied to develop a cost-effective sustainable tread formulation.