Effect Of Short Pineapple Leaf Fiber Treatment On The Properties Of Pineapple Leaf Fiber- Starch Composite

Mohd Rasid, Amirul Hanif (2019) Effect Of Short Pineapple Leaf Fiber Treatment On The Properties Of Pineapple Leaf Fiber- Starch Composite. Project Report. UTeM, Melaka, Malaysia. (Submitted)

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Abstract

Nowadays, the natural fiber shown the greater performance in developing biodegradable composite to fix and figure out ecological problem. The result from previous study shows that, the usage of natural fiber has gained attention from industries in producing a new composite material as a replacement to use of synthetic fiber such as carbon fiber, glass fiber and carbon fiber. This is because as a reinforcement material due to their excellent in mechanical properties, eco-friendly, and less expensive. Besides, that why the industries looking deeply to it of this potential of fiber reinforcement composite especially form industries in plastic production. Pineapple leaf fiber (PLF) is one of a natural fiber and is the good to replace synthetic fiber. The usage of pineapple plants is limited only on its fruit. So that, the research come out from the leaf that has been wasted with no used. In this study pineapple leaf fiber (PLF) used as the reinforcement materials and starch (SH) used as a matrix material. The composition of PLF/ SH is 50PLF/50SH, 60PLF/40SH, and 70PLF/30SH. The composition that being selected is 60PLF/40SH. Another than that, the fiber has gone through an alkaline treatment to increase the strength and take out the impurities that contained in PLF. Thus, after done the treatment with the several time. This study is used different time of treatment to investigate the properties of PLF/SH composite. Therefore, eight samples that had been treated with this an alkaline treatment with 2 hours until 16 hours of treatment on PLF before it chopped finest and mixed with SH. Based on the result, the samples with long treatment has highest result of flexural stress which is 3.372 (MPa). Lastly, from the result of SEM analysis shows the structure of PLF/SH is perfect melt together and lowest among of void. This is because both of PLF/SH is mixed well and become homogeneous during fabrication process.

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