A Novel Sustainable Design to Develop Polypropylene and Unsaturated Polyester Resin Polymer Composites From Waste of Major Polluting Industries and Investigation on Their Physicomechanical and Wear Properties
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2018
Abstract
A novel concept of using Nutraceutical Industrial Coriander Seed Spent (NICSS) and Congo red (CR) dye adsorbed onto NICSS (CR-NICSS) as filler materials to fabricate polypropylene (PP) green thermoplastic composites and unsaturated polyester resin unsaturated polyester resin (USP)/CR-NICSS and USP/NICSS composites is presented. To maximize the adsorption of CR on NICSS and to study the influence of five parameters viz, process time, temperature, initial concentration of dye, adsorbent dosage and pH of the reaction mixture, we use a two-level fractional factorial design approach and analysis of variance to develop statistical model. The composites were evaluated for physico-mechanical and tribological properties and compared with the thermoplastic composites fabricated using NICSS. Flexural strength and flexural modulus of composites were improved by adding CR-NICSS and NICSS into PP matrix. The abrasive wear behavior, wear volume loss and specific wear rate as a function of abrading distance at 150, 300, 450, and 600 m and different loads of 23.54 and 33.54 N at 200 rpm were determined. The water absorption characteristics of thermoplastic composites were studied. The surface morphology of tensile fractured PP/CR-NICSS was examined under scanning electron microscope. The influence of water and thermal ageing on tensile strength and physical properties, such as density, surface hardness and effect of chemicals on USP/CR-NICSS and USP/NICSS are reported. POLYM. COMPOS., 40:1142–1157, 2019. © 2018 Society of Plastics Engineers. © 2018 Society of Plastics Engineers
Keywords
Abrasive wear behavior, Absorption characteristics, Fractional factorial designs, Initial concentration, Mechanical and tribological properties, Statistical modeling, Thermoplastic composite, Unsaturated polyester resin
Divisions
CHEMISTRY
Funders
Contract grant sponsor: University of Malaya for the award of Post Graduate Research; contract grant number: PG 213–2014B; contract grant sponsor: University of Malaya Research; contract grant number: RP019A-14AFR
Publication Title
Polymer Composites
Volume
40
Issue
3
Publisher
Wiley