Pyrolysis and infrared spectroscopy (PIR-G/FT-IR) were used for investigating gaseous products of rubber. The results show that this method was suitable to identify different elastomers and elastomer blends, including rubbers that present similar IR spectra of pyrolysed liquid products such as CIIR and BIIR, NR/SBR and EPDM/SBR, SBR/BR and SBR.
PIR-G/FT-IR; rubber or elastomer; NBR; EPDM; SBR; NR; BR; CSM; IIR; CIIR; BIIR; Viton; MQ