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An eco-plastic made of PLA-Kenaf fibre biocomposite for cleaner environment

Every year more than 100,000,000 polyethylene terephtalate (PET) bottles are used in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. Out of this gigantic figure, 85,000,000 PET bottles end up as garbage and caused the landfills to be filled by the PET bottle toxic wastes that leach into the soil. This may pollute...

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Main Authors: Anuar, Hazleen, Ahmad, Zuraida, Mat Ali, Adilah, Yusof, Siti Rasyidah, Fuad, Faizah
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Language:English
Published: 2010
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spelling my.iium.irep.230722012-04-05T06:37:59Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/23072/ An eco-plastic made of PLA-Kenaf fibre biocomposite for cleaner environment Anuar, Hazleen Ahmad, Zuraida Mat Ali, Adilah Yusof, Siti Rasyidah Fuad, Faizah TP Chemical technology Every year more than 100,000,000 polyethylene terephtalate (PET) bottles are used in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. Out of this gigantic figure, 85,000,000 PET bottles end up as garbage and caused the landfills to be filled by the PET bottle toxic wastes that leach into the soil. This may pollute and endangers our environment specifically our drinking water. This project focuses on the potential of kenaf fibre (KF) as a reinforcing material for poly(lactic acid) (PLA) biopolymer. PLA is a food grade plastic and kenaf fibre is a kind of natural fibre widely available in Malaysia. The fabrication of kenaf bast fibre reinforced poly(lactic acid) biocomposite is expected to be applied as food and beverages containers with the properties that are comparable to man-made based composite. The kenaf fibre content in the PLA was 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% by weight. PLA-KF biocomposite was extruded using Haake twin screw extruder then injection molded for further mechanical characterisation. The kenaf-fibre aspect ratio is 34. Single fibre tests shown that tensile strength and tensile modulus for KF are 119.6 MPa and 6206.1 MPa, respectively. Processing parameters have been determined by using 10 wt% KF at temperature of 180oC and screw rotation of 150 rpm. The theoretical tensile strength and tensile modulus was also predicted by using parallel rule of mixture and the value then compared with the value obtained via experimental. 2010 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/23072/1/p13.pdf Anuar, Hazleen and Ahmad, Zuraida and Mat Ali, Adilah and Yusof, Siti Rasyidah and Fuad, Faizah (2010) An eco-plastic made of PLA-Kenaf fibre biocomposite for cleaner environment. In: IIUM Research, Innovation & Invention Exhibition (IRIIE 2010), 26 - 27 January 2010, Kuala Lumpur.
institution Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia
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topic TP Chemical technology
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Anuar, Hazleen
Ahmad, Zuraida
Mat Ali, Adilah
Yusof, Siti Rasyidah
Fuad, Faizah
An eco-plastic made of PLA-Kenaf fibre biocomposite for cleaner environment
description Every year more than 100,000,000 polyethylene terephtalate (PET) bottles are used in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. Out of this gigantic figure, 85,000,000 PET bottles end up as garbage and caused the landfills to be filled by the PET bottle toxic wastes that leach into the soil. This may pollute and endangers our environment specifically our drinking water. This project focuses on the potential of kenaf fibre (KF) as a reinforcing material for poly(lactic acid) (PLA) biopolymer. PLA is a food grade plastic and kenaf fibre is a kind of natural fibre widely available in Malaysia. The fabrication of kenaf bast fibre reinforced poly(lactic acid) biocomposite is expected to be applied as food and beverages containers with the properties that are comparable to man-made based composite. The kenaf fibre content in the PLA was 5%, 10%, 15% and 20% by weight. PLA-KF biocomposite was extruded using Haake twin screw extruder then injection molded for further mechanical characterisation. The kenaf-fibre aspect ratio is 34. Single fibre tests shown that tensile strength and tensile modulus for KF are 119.6 MPa and 6206.1 MPa, respectively. Processing parameters have been determined by using 10 wt% KF at temperature of 180oC and screw rotation of 150 rpm. The theoretical tensile strength and tensile modulus was also predicted by using parallel rule of mixture and the value then compared with the value obtained via experimental.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Anuar, Hazleen
Ahmad, Zuraida
Mat Ali, Adilah
Yusof, Siti Rasyidah
Fuad, Faizah
author_facet Anuar, Hazleen
Ahmad, Zuraida
Mat Ali, Adilah
Yusof, Siti Rasyidah
Fuad, Faizah
author_sort Anuar, Hazleen
title An eco-plastic made of PLA-Kenaf fibre biocomposite for cleaner environment
title_short An eco-plastic made of PLA-Kenaf fibre biocomposite for cleaner environment
title_full An eco-plastic made of PLA-Kenaf fibre biocomposite for cleaner environment
title_fullStr An eco-plastic made of PLA-Kenaf fibre biocomposite for cleaner environment
title_full_unstemmed An eco-plastic made of PLA-Kenaf fibre biocomposite for cleaner environment
title_sort eco-plastic made of pla-kenaf fibre biocomposite for cleaner environment
publishDate 2010
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/23072/1/p13.pdf
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