Recycling of sawdust for floor tile application

Mohd Amirhafizan, Husin (2014) Recycling of sawdust for floor tile application. Project Report. UTeM. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Wood waste or sawdust refers to the end-of-life products, failed products, off cuts, shavings and sawdust of all timber products. This excludes forest residues, often referred to as primary wood waste. It also excludes green or garden waste materials such as branches, bushes and tree stumps. Wood waste or sawdust can be reclaimed to become new product such as new table, door or anything. In general, current practice is that wood furniture 's that are no longer usable or badly damaged will be thrown away. Notable example is the availability of damaged furniture from public buildings such schools, offices and various other public workplaces. As yet we have not attempted to convert this excellent basic raw-material into appropriate valueadded products. Feasibility study on reclaiming this valuable wood wastes or sawdust resources are carefully discussed in this paper. The objective is to investigate the suitability of sawdust in mixture of epoxy material to enable the application as floor tile. In this paper, the sample is made in special design with length 50 mm, width 10 mm and thickness 5 mm. The sawdust is divided into three type sizes which are small, medium and large size. The sample is made using compress machine with the apply pressure of 9.80665 N. The impact test and hardness test data are analysed to identify the mechanical properties of the sample.

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