Industrial soot:
Soot is one of the oldest man-made products. Its history dates back to centuries ago, when the Chinese and Indians used it as a pigment in ink. However, after the sixteenth century, with the expansion of the printing industry, the importance of this material increased.
The term carbon black, or industrial soot, actually refers to a group of products that are made up of carbon atoms. But industrial soot is different from ordinary soot. Industrial soot is produced under controlled conditions and for special uses, and more than 97% of its composition is carbon. Ordinary soot, on the other hand, is an unwanted by-product.
Carbon black is a substance that not only attracts the attention of those involved in the soot industry, but has also attracted the attention of many researchers and academics around the world. This product is widely used as a filler to change the mechanical, electrical and light transmission properties in environments to which it is added and therefore plays an important role in the properties of elastomers, plastics, paints, inks and rubber. For example, it increases UV protection in plastics. It is a good conductor in thermoplastic polymers and when used as a filler in rubber, it improves parameters such as erosion, abrasion, scratch and failure.
Industrial soot is widely used in various industries, especially in the rubber industry, due to its chemical composition, coloring properties, particle size and colloidal properties. Carbon is about 25-30% of the weight of rubber. Not only is this material used as a filler in this industry, but it also gives it considerable strength due to its various properties. Soot is the most widely used after the rubber industry in the ink industry, especially for newspaper printing, dyeing and plastics.
Industrial soot is often used in plastics and their products for dyeing, protection against heat, protection against decay due to ultraviolet radiation, electrical properties, as well as strengthening properties, and sometimes in industry as a reducing agent goes. It also plays an important role in elastomers, plastics, paints and inks. The tire industry, in particular, consumes about 80 percent of the industrial soot produced.
This material is classified either according to the production process or according to the type of primary feed or according to the type of application or properties of the final product.
