How to avoid aging of stainless steel mesh belt

Stainless steel mesh belts should follow the path of technological innovation. Our stainless steel mesh belt manufacturers only need to increase technical investment, change development ideas, and structure industrial innovation formats. The effective way should be to make some improvements based on the characteristics of the product. For problems in use, find ways to overcome them. The best situation is to solve them. If they cannot be completely solved, we should avoid such problems according to the actual situation. So what are the factors that cause the aging of stainless steel mesh belts?
1. Oxygen: Oxygen reacts with rubber molecules in rubber in a free radical chain reaction, and the molecular chains of stainless steel mesh belts break or over-crosslink, causing changes in rubber properties. Oxidation is one of the important reasons for rubber aging.
2. Ozone. The chemical activity of ozone is much higher than that of oxygen, and it is more destructive. It also breaks the molecular chains of stainless steel mesh belts, but the effect of ozone on rubber varies with whether the rubber is deformed or not. When acting on deformed rubber (mainly unsaturated rubber), cracks perpendicular to the direction of stress appear, which is the so-called "ozone cracking"; when acting on deformed rubber, only an oxide film is generated on the surface without cracking.
3. Heat: Increasing the temperature can cause thermal cracking or thermal crosslinking of rubber. But the basic role of heat is activation. It increases the oxygen diffusion rate and activates the oxidation reaction, thereby accelerating the oxidation reaction rate of rubber. This is a common aging phenomenon - thermal oxidation aging.
4. Mechanical stress: The stainless steel mesh belt is repeatedly subjected to mechanical stress and the continuous friction with the roller, which will cause the rubber molecular chain to break and generate free radicals, triggering an oxidation chain reaction and forming a mechanochemical process.

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