The rubber used in the fuel line is expexted to be improved in its performance concerning with the heat aging, sour gasoline and alcohol containing gasoline (gasohol) resistance. One of the best materials to fulfill these conditions mentioned above is fluoroelastomer. In most commercially available fluoroelastomers (FKM), the highly fluorinated polymers consisting of terpolymer of vinylidenefluoride and hexafluoropropylene with tetrafluoroetylene have superior properties to gasohol containing methanol.
Although the high fluorine content FKM cured by peroxide has the superior properties used in fuel line, it is weak to cut growth properties as the materials for tube of fuel hose. Concerning to improve the above properties of peroxide curable FKM, we examined the adding effect of various coagents on cut growth (break-down time). Among various kinds of di-and trifunctional coagent we determined to use the trifunctional coagent such as triallylisocyanurate (TAIC) and triallyltrimellitate (TATM) which showed the superior physical characteristics of oil resistant rubber. In this report, fundamental studies were made for the relations between physical properties such as the compression set and cut growth (break-down time) by changing the peroxide and coagent content by using TAIC and TATM. By using these coagent, the property of cut growth was improved by decreasing the content of coagent. Especially, we recognized to obtain the excellent cut growth properties with maintaining the compression set resistance by using the new coagents TATM.
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