Oil Palm Frond as an Alternative Material to Reinforce the Fiber Brick

2016 ◽  
Vol 851 ◽  
pp. 852-857
Author(s):  
Arrisa Sopajarn ◽  
Panumas Suybangdum
Keyword(s):  
Oil Palm ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
High Fracture Toughness ◽  
High Fracture ◽  
Industrial Construction ◽  
Plaster Of Paris ◽  
Specific Strength ◽  
Oil Palm Frond ◽  
Alternative Material ◽  
Palm Frond

Oil palm frond was utilized as a fiber biomass material for investigating the strength of the fiber bricks. This research aimed to enhance the potential of oil palm frond utilization to produce bio-fiber brick. It was developed as a composite material to be a choice for industrial construction, decorative interior, or others relevant. Plaster of Paris was identified as a binder of oil palm frond bricks. The oil palm frond, mixed with the plaster of Paris, was tested with three variable ratios of 0.5:0.5, 0.4:0.6, and 0.3:0.7 for brick production. In the performed tests and examinations, the characteristic properties of oil palm frond size, density, and compressive strength were analyzed. The results showed that the oil palm frond can be used to reinforce the fiber brick. It can increased the quality of plaster of Paris bricks of light weight, high modulus, high specific strength, and high fracture toughness depending on OPF size, raw material ratios, and binding.

Assessment of Strength Properties of Biocomposite from Oil Palm Frond

2011 ◽  
Vol 471-472 ◽  
pp. 55-58
Author(s):  
Faizah Muhamad Fauzi ◽  
Suhaimi Muhammed
Keyword(s):  
Oil Palm ◽  
Urea Formaldehyde ◽  
Strength Properties ◽  
Solid Wood ◽  
Agricultural Residues ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Wood Industry ◽  
Oil Palm Frond ◽  
Biocomposite Material ◽  
Palm Frond

Shortage of solid wood supply as the main raw material for the wood-based industries is cute problem faced by the world wide wood industry. Agricultural residues especially from oil palm plantation are abundantly and is therefore hoped to solve the above problem. In this context, this study would like to venture into the utilization of oil palm frond (OPF) as the potential agricultural residues for the manufacture of biocomposite panel. Raw material (OPF) mixed with the binder urea formaldehyde at three resin levels (8%, 10%, and 12%) to produce board of two density levels (550 kg/m3 and 650 kg/m3). The boards produced were tested for the mechanical strength (MOE & MOR) in accordance with the European Standard (EN 310). The results showed that the MOE values increased as the resin content increased for both board densities. The values are 1755.54 MPa to 2147.44 MPa for 550 kg/m3 and 2351.81 MPa to 2810.34 MPa for 650 kg/m3. Respectively, similar trend of increment was exhibited for the MOR values 12.18 MPa to 14.98 MPa for 550 kg/m3 and 16.62 MPa to 19.90 MPa for 650 kg/m3. In conclusion, the utilization of oil palm frond for the production of strong biocomposite material stands a great potential.

scholarly journals KARAKTERISTIK KARBON AKTIF DARI PEMANFAATAN LIMBAH TANAMAN KELAPA SAWIT DENGAN PENAMBAHAN AKTIVATOR NATRIUM KARBONAT (Na2CO3) DAN NATRIUM KLORIDA (NaCl)

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 41-44
Author(s):  
Gewa Handika ◽  
Seri Maulina ◽  
Vidyanova Anggun Mentari
Keyword(s):  
Activated Carbon ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Activated Carbons ◽  
Elaeis Guineensis ◽  
Liquid Waste ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Average Weight ◽  
Palm Tree ◽  
Oil Palm Frond ◽  
Palm Frond

Oil palm tree can produce 22 oil palm frond / year, the average weight of frond per rod reaches 2.2 kg, so that each hectare can produce fresh frond about 9 tons / year or equivalent to 1.64 tons / year of dry matter. Activated carbon can be used as a good absorbent agent for gas purification process and removal of organic pollutants from water, such as in liquid waste. The objective of this paper is to know the different characteristics of activated carbon from oil palm frond (elaeis guineensis jacq) as raw material with variation of activator sodium carbonate (Na2CO3) and sodium chloride (NaCl). The activator concentration used is 10% each with an activation temperature of 600 ° C. The quality of activated carbons was analyzed by surface active carbon morphology and FTIR spectra analysis on activated carbon. The result of identification with FTIR spectrophotometer showed that the activated carbon in this study contained the functional groups of O-H, C = O, C = C, C-C, and C-H.

scholarly journals Enzymatic Hydrolysis of Pretreated Fibre Pressed Oil Palm Frond by using Sacchariseb C6

2017 ◽  
Vol 206 ◽  
pp. 012008
Author(s):  
F S Hashim ◽  
H W Yussof ◽  
M A K M Zahari ◽  
R A Rahman ◽  
R M Illias
Keyword(s):  
Enzymatic Hydrolysis ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Oil Palm Frond ◽  
Hydrolysis Of ◽  
Palm Frond

scholarly journals Investigation on the Dielectric Properties of Pulverized Oil Palm Frond and Pineapple Leaf Fiber for X-Band Microwave Absorber Application

2014 ◽  
Vol 893 ◽  
pp. 488-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elfarizanis Baharudin ◽  
Alyani Ismail ◽  
Adam Reda Hasan Alhawari ◽  
Edi Syams Zainudin ◽  
Dayang L.A. Majid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dielectric Constant ◽  
Dielectric Properties ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Microwave Absorber ◽  
Band Frequency ◽  
Pineapple Leaf Fiber ◽  
X Band ◽  
Oil Palm Frond ◽  
Palm Frond ◽  
Leaf Fiber

This paper presents the results on dielectric properties of pulverized material based on agricultural waste namely oil palm frond and pineapple leaf fiber for microwave absorber application in the X-band frequency range. The investigation is started by identifying the pulverized materials permittivities and loss tangents using coaxial probe technique, followed by density measurement comprising the determination of bulk and solid densities. Then, by using dielectric mixture model, the solid particle dielectric properties were determined. It is observed that the air properties give quite an effect on the permittivity and loss tangent of the pulverized materials. It is also found that the lower the material density the higher material dielectric constant will be. Furthermore, the results show that, both oil palm frond and pineapple leaf fiber are potential to be X-band absorber with average dielectric constant of 4.40 and 3.38 respectively. The loss tangents for both materials were observed to be more than 0.1 which mark them as lossy materials.

Bioethanol Production from Oil Palm Frond Lignocellulose using Facultative Anaerobic Thermophilic Bacteria

2017 ◽  
pp. 171-183
Author(s):  
Siti Nur Ridhwah Muhamed Ramli ◽  
Tengku Elida Tengku Zainal Mulok ◽  
Sabiha Hanim Mohd Salleh ◽  
Khalilah Abdul Khalil ◽  
Othman Ahmad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Oil Palm ◽  
Thermophilic Bacteria ◽  
Bioethanol Production ◽  
Oil Palm Frond ◽  
Facultative Anaerobic ◽  
Palm Frond

scholarly journals Automatic Evaluation of the Mechanical Properties of Steels Maraging using Digital Image Processing Techniques

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angélica Alves Viana ◽  
Savio Lopes Rabelo ◽  
José Daniel de Alencar Santos ◽  
Venceslau Xavier de Lima Filho ◽  
Douglas De Araújo Rodrigues ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Properties ◽  
Fracture Toughness ◽  
Maraging Steel ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
High Fracture Toughness ◽  
Mechanical Resistance ◽  
High Fracture ◽  
Traditional System ◽  
Transformation Methods ◽  
Processing Techniques

Some strategic sectors of the economy require that the raw material of their machines and equipment have mechanical properties that satisfy their use. Maraging steel is a material of great concern since it is necessary to have a high mechanical resistance associated with high fracture toughness. The traditional tests to determine the fracture toughness of this material before use in applications are the Charpy and KIC tests. However, this process is characterized by being exhaustive and requiring specialized and trained professionals. Thus, to reverse this situation, this work proposes a new approach to determine the mechanical properties of maraging steel. For this, initially, the method removes any artifacts present in the image resulting from the mode of acquisition. In sequence, this works tested the method Extended Minimum Transformation (EMT) and mathematical morphology to find these markers of the regions of the dimples. Then, the Adaptive Thresholding, Optimal Global Thresholdusing the Otsu Method and Watershed transformation methods were used to segment the dimples. In the end, the diameter of the dimples and the toughness of the material were calculated. Tests are carried out and compared with the result obtained by specialists using the traditional system to evaluate the proposed approach. The results obtained were satisfactory for the application because the proposed approach presented speed and precision to the conventional methods.

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