Oil Palm Fiber Composites

Parameters like the type of binding agent, process, fiber loading, fiber orientation, size and treatments, affect the fiber-matrix bonding and thereby on the end properties of composites. The effect of these parameters on various properties of oil palm fiber composites is compiled and given in the following sections. 

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Permanganate treatment This method of treatment is very rarely used and therefore not much inference can be obtained from previous literature. The treatment leads to the formation of a cellulose radical through the formation of a MnO " ion. Sreekala et al. studied the effect of permanganate treatment on oil palm fibers as reinforcement in PF resin composites. Compared to their controls, the tensile strength of permanganate-treated oil-palm fiber composites decreased by 16%. The objective of the treatment was to enhance interface interlocking with (he aid of the radicals, but the resulting mechanical properties did not show an improvanent [22]. 

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