Research Article

Biodiesel as a Plasticizer of a SBR-Based Tire Tread Formulation

Table 1

Solubility parameter of vegetable oils and methyl esters of fatty acids.

in MPa1/2

Olive oil [3]16.9
Olive oil [4]16.1
Soybean oil [3]16.2
Sunflower oil [3]16.7
Peanut oil [3]16.1
Linseed oil [3]16.4
Linseed oil [4]14.8
Brassica or rapeseed oil [3]16.9
Brassica or rapeseed oil [5]18.0
Glyceryl trioleate [3]16.9
Glyceryl tristearate [3]17.7
Castor oil [3]18.3
Methyl erucate (this work)16.6
Methyl oleate (this work)16.7
Methyl oleate [4]16.4
Methyl oleate [6]15.5
Methyl linoleate (this work)16.6
Methyl stearate (this work)16.7
Methyl palmitate (this work)16.6
Biodiesel (this work)16.65 ± 0.05
Biodiesel [7]17.56 ± 0.27