Green composites from kapok husk and recycled polypropylene

Koay, Seong Chun; Husseinsyah, Salmah; Chan, Ming Yeng

doi:10.1177/0892705715569822

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“…Thus, the composites usually more rigid and brittle if fiber content was more. This observation is in agreement with findings of many others researcher [19][20]. Figure 5 illustrates the TGA curves of DHF, neat rPS and rPS/DHF composites at selected fiber content.…”

Section: Tensile Propertiessupporting

confidence: 92%

Preparation and Characterization of Wood Plastic Composite Made Up of Durian Husk Fiber and Recycled Polystyrene Foam.

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Abstract. Polystyrene foam is one of the major plastic waste that hardly to recycle. The present research is aims to recycle polystyrene foam as raw material to produce wood plastic composites (WPC). The WPC was produced from recycled polystyrene (rPS) and durian husk fiber (DHF) using melt compound and compression moulding processes. This paper is focus on effect of fiber content on tensile and thermal properties of rPS/DHF composite. The results found the tensile strength modulus of this WPC increased at higher fiber content, but elongation at break was reduced. However, this composites exhibited an early thermal degradation when subjected to high temperature and this was commonly found among WPC. The thermal degradation of rPS/DHF composites yielded high percentage of char residue due to char formation of DHF. Overall, the rPS/DHF composites with 60 phr fiber content able to achieved strength slight above 16 MPa without any chemical treatment additives. This indicates the rPS/DHF composites can be a potential WPC if further modify with to improve its strength.

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Section: Tensile Propertiessupporting

confidence: 92%

Preparation and Characterization of Wood Plastic Composite Made Up of Durian Husk Fiber and Recycled Polystyrene Foam.

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“…As mentioned early, the formation of more char residue was due to thermal degradation of lignin and cellulose from DHF. The similar observation also found by other researchers [21][22].…”

Section: Thermal Propertiessupporting

confidence: 92%

Preparation and Characterization of Durian Husk Fiber Filled Polylactic Acid Biocomposites

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Abstract. Polylactic acid (PLA) is biodegradable thermoplastic that made from renewable raw material, but its high cost limited the application. Thus, addition of natural fiber can be effectively reduced the cost of PLA. This research is utilised natural fiber extracted from durian husk to made PLA biocomposites. This paper is focus on the effect of fiber content on tensile and thermal properties of PLA/durian husk fiber (DHF) biocomposites. The results found that the tensile strength and modulus of this biocomposites increased with increase of fiber content, but the strength still lower compared to neat PLA. Then, the elongation at break of biocomposites was expected decreased at higher fiber content. The PLA/DHF biocomposites with 60 phr fiber content exhibited tensile strength of 11 MPa, but it is too brittle yet for any application. The addition of DHF caused an early thermal degradation on PLA biocomposites. Then, the thermal stability of PLA biocomposites was decreased with more fiber content.

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“…According to Pukánsky (1990), the interfacial interaction between filler and matrix can be expressed quantitatively by a simple model. [17] This simple model is also used by other researchers [18,19] to determine and compare the filler-matrix adhesion between untreated and treated composites. Furthermore, this model can be considered as a major factor that influences the tensile strength, such as:…”

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Influence of bleaching treatment by hydrogen peroxide on chitosan/durian husk cellulose biocomposite films

Wong

Chan

2017

Adv Polym Technol

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This study covered the preparation and characterization of durian husk cellulose (DHC)-filled chitosan (CS) biocomposite films. The effects of the DHC content and bleaching treatment via hydrogen peroxide (H 2 O 2 ) on the tensile and thermal properties of the CS/DHC biocomposite films were investigated. The results showed that the tensile strength and percentage of elongation at break decreased with increasing DHC contents, but the modulus of elasticity of the CS/DHC biocomposite films increased along with the DHC contents. The bleaching treatment of the durian husk is to remove the lignin content to form bleached DHC, resulting in an improvement of tensile strength, modulus of elasticity, and thermal properties of bleached CS/DHC biocomposite films. The functional groups of the unbleached and bleached DHC filler were proved by the Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) analysis, and the thermal stability and glass transition temperature (T g ) of the CS/DHC biocomposite films were measured by the thermogravimetry analysis (TGA) and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) analysis, respectively. K E Y W O R D S bleaching treatment, chitosan, durian husk cellulose, films, hydrogen peroxide

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Green composites from kapok husk and recycled polypropylene

Cited by 18 publications

References 40 publications

Preparation and Characterization of Wood Plastic Composite Made Up of Durian Husk Fiber and Recycled Polystyrene Foam.

Preparation and Characterization of Wood Plastic Composite Made Up of Durian Husk Fiber and Recycled Polystyrene Foam.

Preparation and Characterization of Durian Husk Fiber Filled Polylactic Acid Biocomposites

Influence of bleaching treatment by hydrogen peroxide on chitosan/durian husk cellulose biocomposite films

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