PARAMETERS INTERACTION OF RADIATION VULCANIZED NATURAL RUBBER LATEX (RVNRL) SENSITIZED BY N-BUTYL ACRYLATE

Response surface methodology was utilized to conceive a mathematical relationship between the crosslinking efficiency of natural rubber latex vulcanized by gamma rays, and the process parameters (n-butyl acrylate and KOH). The radiation vulcanization of latex can be optimized at low vulcanization dose (VD) and at high concentration of n-BA. This relationship can be estimated by the following model.