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Characterization of Plastic Composite Based on HIPS Loaded with Bagasse

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Polymer chemistry

Abstract

The availability of natural fibers in Egypt such as bagasse, rice straw, corn husk, etc attracted the researcher interests to reutilize this agricultural biomass for the development of natural fiber reinforced composites for diversity valuable applications. Recently the utilization of bio-fillers in thermoplastics composites has increased. Polystyrene is a thermoplastic polymer that is commercially available with a wide range of high impact polystyrene (HIPS) applications in various fields because of its mechanical properties. So natural fiber reinforced thermoplastic polystyrene composites can be used as natural wood substitutes in housing, and constructions purposes. Herein we used sugarcane bagasse as a natural filler for HIPS. Where HIPS was melted and mixing with sugarcane bagasse at different ratios using screw extruder, then the fiber/polymer mixture was molded into standard test samples under pressure and heating. The effect of external effectors such as slight aqueous acidic, alkaline solutions, engine oil treatments or UV exposure on the mechanical properties of the prepared composites was investigated. Additionally, the impact of filler content on polystyrene thermal stability and morphological characteristics, water absorption, and swelling capacity were studied.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2017.1473.1099

Keywords

Composite, Sugarcane bagasse, polystyrene, Thermal stability, Water Absorption

Authors

First Name

Essam

Last Name

Elsayed

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Cellulose and Paper Department. Chemical Industral Research Division, National Research Centre, 33 El Bohouth St. (former El Tahrir st.), Dokki, Giza,Egypt, P.O. 12622

Email

essamksu@yahoo.com

City

Cairo

Orcid

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First Name

Naglaa

Last Name

El-Sayed

MiddleName

Salem

Affiliation

33 Al-Tahrir St. Dokki, Giza

Email

naglasalemaboud@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

-

First Name

Zenat

Last Name

Nagiebb

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

National Research Centre

Email

zenat.ad@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0001-5421-1944

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Ismael

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

National Research Centre, 30 El-Tahrir Street

Email

ismaelahmed1@yahoo.com

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-

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-

Volume

60

Article Issue

6

Related Issue

660

Issue Date

2017-12-01

Receive Date

2017-08-13

Publish Date

2017-12-01

Page Start

1,101

Page End

1,110

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_4083.html

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Original Article

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297

Publication Type

Journal

Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/

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Characterization of Plastic Composite Based on HIPS Loaded with Bagasse

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Created At

22 Jan 2023