Tea Waste Fibre

Figure 13.13 SEM images of milled tea waste fibre (author s experiment).

Figure 13.18 shows the effect of tea waste fibre on the hardness of NR composites, showing that the hardness inereases as a funetion of tea waste fibre content. 

Ersoy, S. Kucuk, H. (2009). Investigation of industrial tea-leaf-fibre waste materialfor its sound absorption properties. Applied Acoustics, Vol.70, No.l, (January 2009), pp. 215-220, ISSN 0003-682X... 

Natural fibres derived from waste renewable resourees have received tremendous attention during the past deeade. Examples of natural fibres include jute, sugar eane leaves, bagasse and tea waste. In previous work, the different natural fibre types obtained from different sourees are blended with NR and more details are given in Table 13.5. ... 

The properties of NR eomposites are eontrolled by natural fibre eontent, natural fibre orientation and adhesion between green fibre and NR matrix." The mechanieal property of the polymer eomposite increased. The modulus and hardness and oil resistanee of the resulting NR increased with inereasing tea leave waste but the tensile strength and elongation at break of the NR compound decreased as a function of tea leave waste. In addition, the NR compound with tea leave and carbon black exhibits excellenee in thermal properties. The polymer composite possesses the best properties at 30 phr of modified tea leave with MMA and 30 phr of carbon black. 

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