Study In The Effect Of Compatibilizer On The Properties Of Oil Palm Shell Powder Filled Polypropylene
The main goal of this research is to fabricate a lightweight composite material using environmentally friendly natural particulate reinforcement, to characterize the mechanical properties of oil palm shell powder filled polypropylene and to investigate the effect of AMPS on its mechanical properties...
| Summary: | The main goal of this research is to fabricate a lightweight composite material using environmentally friendly natural particulate reinforcement, to characterize the mechanical properties of oil palm shell powder filled polypropylene and to investigate the effect of AMPS on its mechanical properties. This research is conducted to recycle oil palm shell; oil palm shell powder will be used as a reinforcement of oil palm shell powder/polypropylene composite. The mechanical properties of this composite will be determined and compared with same composite but with existence of Aminopropyltriethoxysilane (AMPS). Processing involve to produce this composite is crushing, mixing, and hot pressing. The purpose of doing process above is to make sure oil palm shell powder mix well and homogenously with polypropylene, this is because bonding between oil palm shell powder and polypropylene still can be improved to upgrade it properties. Mechanical properties that will be determined are a flexural strength, tensile strength and impact strength, while physical properties determined is water absorption test. All tests for this material is referred and followed under American Standard Materials Testing (ASTM) for composite material. As the results, all mechanical properties and physical properties of oil palm shell filled polypropylene with compatibilizer is better than oil palm shell powder filled polypropylene without compatibilizer, that mean compatibilizer can improve properties of this material. |
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