Fabrication Of Green Polymeric Tiles From Polypropylene And Tapioca Starch Compound

Shafei, Siti Azian (2016) Fabrication Of Green Polymeric Tiles From Polypropylene And Tapioca Starch Compound. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Nowadays, tiles have been invented with various type of material such as ceramics tiles which known of their durability, anti-fungal, but most of all its aesthetic quality. Polymeric tiles were found to be a good alternative to ceramic due to its low cost of raw material, ease of production, differing design and also customizable. Furthermore, most of the polymer can be reproduce and recycle to be the best tile. This research was carried out to determine the best formulation of polypropylene with tapioca starch compound used to produce polymeric tile with aesthetic value. Besides, to study their mechanical properties such as Tensile strength, hardness of material and sudden impact through the tiles. Other than research of the material compound, it also to fabricate polymeric tile based on interlocking tile design. In order to produce the product, the sample of the material compound have been made before undergo with various testing. To produce the material compound the difference composition have been study and the mixing process was done using internal mixer. After that, the material was press using hot press machine with specific dimension. Then, material sample was cut according to ASTM of each testing. This research focused on mechanical testing such as tensile test, hardness test and impact test. Physical testing on the sample also undergo swelling test and density test. The morphological analysis of the sample have been made using optical microscope. The increasing of tapioca starch content had significantly increase swelling thickness and effect to the mechanical testing behaviour. The optimum formulation of fabricated compound was observe at combination of 90 wt. % of PP, 10 wt.% of TS and 3 wt.% glycerol for applied to fabricate polymeric tile. In overall, one of the objective was not successfully achieved which is to fabricate tile product due to several factor. i

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