The objective of this work was to use the spinning waste in form of short fibres for the preparation of nano size fillers in nanocomposite applications. The present paper concerns with the jute fibres as the source to produce nanocellulose by high energy planetary ball milling process and its potential applications as fillers in biodegradable nanocomposite plastics used in automotives, packaging and agriculture applications. Influence of various milling conditions like nature of milling (i.e. dry or wet), milling time and ball size are studied on the particle size distribution and morphology of jute nanoparticles obtained. Wet milling in the deionised water resulted into particle size refinement below 500 nm with narrow size distribution after 3 hours of milling at the cost of small amount of contaminations introduced from milling media.

A significant amount of waste fibers is produced in the form of short length from textile spinning industry during several mechanical processes. The objective of this study was to utilize the waste from spinning of fibers in the form of short fibers for the production of nano scale fillers in the applications of nanocomposite. This work concerns with fibers of jute as the raw material to produce nano cellulose with the help of high energy ball milling technique and its potential applications as fillers in biodegradable nanocomposite plastics used in automotives, packing and agriculture applications. Influence of various milling conditions like nature of milling that is dry or wet, milling time and ball size are studied on the particle size distribution and morphology of jute nanoparticles obtained. Wet milling in the deionized water resulted into particle size refinement below 500nm with comparatively thin size distribution after 180 min of ball milling at the cost of small amount of contaminations introduced from milling media.

In present study, optimization of four operating parameters of high energy planetary ball mill (i.e. milling time, milling speed, ball to material ratio and ball size) on dry grinding of jute fibre waste was performed. A three-level Box-Behnken design combining a response surface methodology was employed to study the response in terms of particle size and % sticking of material to mill. Analysis of variance of milling parameters showed coefficient of determination of 0.927 and 0.903 for particle size and material sticking respectively. The model equations were subsequently optimized using the canonical analysis with the help of SYSTAT software to minimize the particle size and material sticking. The optimum conditions were found 12 mm for ball size, 47 min for milling time, 9 for ball to material ratio and 870 rpm for milling speed.

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