Rubber is a very useful material that is used in almost all the industries to produce various types of products like tires, seals, gaskets, footwear, household products, industrial material, fasteners, etc. These products are manufactured by processing the natural rubber into vulcanized form. As the natural rubbers are very soft and fragile in nature, they can’t be used for production process of any material whether domestic or industrial. Hence, to make the rubber useful, the process of vulcanization is followed. Vulcanization of the rubbers is the process through which the physical and chemical properties of natural rubber are changed to some extent by adding sufficient amount of sulphur to it. This automatically changes various properties of the Sulphur and makes the rubber hard to use for production purposes. The amount of adding sulphur is not fixed; this depends on the application for which the rubber is needed.

After the process of vulcanization, rubber is sent to different industries to proceed for further manufacturing. When the rubber material goes through the rigorous manufacturing process, the strong and high-quality of rubbers products will be obtained that are used for various industrial purposes as well as for domestic purposes. The rubber compounds are used for various crucial applications like aircraft, aerospace, defense equipment, and many more. Hence, the rubber material which is used to manufacture these products must be of topmost quality and utmost grade. This is only possible if proper quality testing techniques should be followed while testing the quality of the rubbers. This can be done with the help of high quality of testing instruments. The testing devices that are used to verify the quality of the rubbers must be of best quality. One of the best testing instruments which are used to check the quality of the rubbers is “Ozone Chamber”.

The rubber goods frequently face the harsh working conditions that also have the presence of Ozone layer in it. The ozone is a very harsh has that adversely affect the quality of the rubbers and the mechanical properties of the rubbers products. This forces the manufacturers to test the effect of ozone on any rubber product. The ozone chamber is an extremely accurate testing instrument which is used to measure the impact of ozone concentration on various properties of the rubbers. It is a closed cabinet that produces original ozone environment to assess the effects of the ozone on the properties of the rubber compounds accurately.

Source by Bhawna Goyal