Research Article
Tailoring the Curing Kinetics of NBR-Based Rubber Compounds for Additive Manufacturing of Rod Seals
Table 5
Activation energy and rate constant of unoptimized and optimized recipes.
| Recipe | Activation energy EA (kJ⋅mol−1) | Speed constant k at 160°C (min−1) | Coefficient of determination R2 |
| #1: Reference | 72.0 | −1.58 | 0.993 | #2: Optimized with 1 phr CTP | 78.6 | −0.97 | 0.996 | #3: Optimized by exchanging the curing system | 82.4 | −0.62 | 1.000 |
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