RUBBER TECHNOLOGY CENTRE

In the mid fifties (1955) the Ministry of Education, Govt. of India, decided to establish facilities for promoting rubber technology in the country and established a rubber technology laboratory at IIT Kharagpur in the Department of Applied Chemistry under the aid from Colombo Plan and Technical Collaboration Mission. Subsequently, an independent Rubber Technology Centre was established in the year of 1981 to cater to the need of country's growing technical manpower in the field of rubber technology and allied areas. After its establishment, the centre has earned an excellent reputation of its own for promoting postgraduate teaching and research in different areas of rubber technology. Available facilities include Mixing Mills, Brabender Plasticorders, Press, Rheometer, Plastimeter, Mooney Viscometer, Impact Tester, Hounsfield UTM, Compression Set Apparatus, Dunlop Tripsometer, Abraders, Goodrich and DeMettia Flexometers, Ageing Ovens, Zwick UTM, Thermal Analyzer, Flammability Tester, Monsanto Processability Tester, Dynamic Mechanical Anaylzer, Dielectric Thermal Analyzer, Compression Stress Relaxometer, FTIR Spectrophotometer, Optical Microscope, Brookfield Viscometer, LCR meter and Atomic Force Microscope, RPA. The centre works in close collaboration with other departments/centres of this Institute, Indian rubber industries, Rubber Board and government research establishments. Several research projects sponsored by different agencies like DST, CSIR, DRDO, DAE, BARC, MHRD and industries are in operation. This centre has successfully completed a UK Government collaboration program, and an Indo-UK and an Indo-French collaborative research programmes. The centre is also presently working on industry sponsored projects from India and abroad; for example, with TISCO, NICCO, Phoenix Yule, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. USA, EXXON MOBIL Chemical Co., USA, LANXESS, Germany and so on. The centre has successfully organized three International Conferences so far. The Centre offers M. Tech degree in: Rubber Technology. There is hundred percent placement every year. The Centre offers MTech degree in:

RT     Rubber Technology

 

Course Contains :

Students are taught various aspects of rubber technology i.e. basic rubber science, industrial rubbers, compounding, testing, rheology and processing, component production and design, latex, tyre, adhesion technology, engineering design and characterization. In addition to the above-mentioned subjects, the students are allowed to opt for the subjects offered by other departments, i.e. computer software, management, chemical engineering and engineering drawing. The project work is carried out in different rubber and allied industries as well as in several R & D sectors in this country.

 

Areas of Research

Compounding and vulcanization, Polymer blends and alloys, Rubber based composites, Thermoplastic elastomers, Adhesion science and technology, Electrical and electronic applications of rubbers, Dynamic mechanical and thermal analysis, Failure mechanism, Rheology, Industrial rubber products, Modification of rubbers, Ionomers, Recycling of waste rubbers, Micro cellular rubber, Biomedical applications of rubbers, and polymer nano-composites. Research work in different types of Polymer, Polymer based Composites, nano Composites are also research interest of the Faculty members of the Centre.

 

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