DETERMINATION AND EVALUATION OF SAFETY DA TA FOR SYNTHETIC RUBBER

During the drying process of synthetic rubber hazardous situations can not always be excluded. In order to estimate the hazardous potential o f the type of rubber considered here, the relevant safety data were de termined experimentally. It appeared that the usual safety characteris tics for samples of combustible particles (dust) are applicable only p artially and with restrictions to rubber. The evaluation of the experi ments showed that the most significant source of hazard is the devolat ilization of flammable gases (styrene) during drying.