In past few decades, natural fibers which are viable and abundant in nature are the emerging trends in material science as reinforcement for polymer matrix materials and they are the commute for the non-biodegradable, non-renewable and high-density synthetic fibers. Plant-based fibers such as banana, hemp, kenaf, PALF, jute, and coir has been used as reinforcement in a polymer matrix for the applications in consumer goods, furniture’s, civil and automotive structures and low-cost housing structures. The natural fibers used in this study are Hemp and Jute fibers which are finding increasing in the composite material as reinforcements. The main objective of the current work is to examine the mechanical properties of hybrid fibers (hemp and jute) reinforced epoxy composites under room temperature and at cryogenic temperature. From this study, it is clear that tensile, flexural and impact properties of polymer composites are greatly influenced by cryogenic temperature and its properties vary with respect to the extent of cryogenic treatment. The specimens are immersed in liquid nitrogen for the duration of 15, 30, 45 and 60mins and later it is subjected for tensile, flexural and impact properties. The maximum tensile strength of 21.13MPa, flexural strength of 51.95MPa and Impact strength of 8.935kJ/m2 is obtained for an untreated specimen and its value start to decrease as curing time increases. At cryogenic temperature, the material comes harder and loses its ductile property and become brittle due differ in thermal expansion coefficient of matrix and fiber material
The Fish oil was used to produce biodiesel by transesterification reaction with methanol as a solvent in presence of a mixture of sodium hydroxide & di-sodium orthophosphate as catalyst concentrations (mixed base catalyst). The optimization of transesterification reaction parameters were done using Response Surface Methodology (RSM) tool. Three process variables were assessed viz., Methanol to Oil Ratio (MOR), Reaction Time (RT) & Reaction Temperature (RTE). To get maximum yield of fish oil biodiesel (FOB), 20 experiments were designed and conducted. A yield of 94.6% FOB was obtained during the transesterification process carried out at the optimized reaction parameters viz., 7.5:1 MOR, 45 minutes RT & 70°C RTE. Statistical analysis of the predicted model by RSM revealed a good agreement between the observed and predicted values. Present research is successful in effectively using RSM tool for optimization of transesterification reaction parameters.
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