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A Green Approach to Produce Low-cost Waste Rubber Tiles Upheld with Recycled Polyethylene and Bagasse

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Polymer chemistry

Abstract

Recyclability is a key for consumed polymers to diminish their harmful impact on the environment. In this work, reclaimed devulcanized waste rubber (WR), recycled high density polyethylene and bagasse fibers (BF) are used to prepare composites and select from them the optimum one(s) to be applied as low-cost rubber-based tiles. The prepared composites were characterized via gel fraction, mechanical properties including abrasion, hardness, tensile strength and Young's modulus, and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was used to study the morphological behavior of the prepared composites, illustrating the impact of loading bagasse fibers to support the properties of these composites. The findings affirm that the RPE and BF were compatible with the reclaimed devulcanized waste rubber. Moreover, the mechanical properties presented acceptable tensile strength values after adding recycled polyethylene (RPE) and BF, whereas the elasticity of the composites was reduced with the addition of fillers. In this context, the hardness and abrasion loss resistance were improved by RPE addition and enhanced more in the presence of BF with maintained thermal stability.

DOI

10.21608/ejchem.2024.302068.9962

Keywords

Green Tiles, Recycled High Density Polyethylene, Reclaimed Waste Rubber, Bagasse Fibers, Mechanical Properties

Authors

First Name

Youssef

Last Name

Refaat

MiddleName

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Affiliation

National Research Centre

Email

youssef.refaat100@gmail.com

City

-

Orcid

0000-0001-6037-3157

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Khalil

MiddleName

M.

Affiliation

Photochemistry Department - National Research Centre, El Buhouth St., Dokki 12622

Email

akhalil75@yahoo.com

City

Giza

Orcid

0000-0002-4252-8175

First Name

Mohamed

Last Name

Hasanin

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Cellulose and Paper Department, National Research Centre, 12622, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt.

Email

sido_sci@yahoo.com

City

-

Orcid

https://orcid.org/0

First Name

Samir

Last Name

Kamel

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-

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

samirki@yahoo.com

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-

Orcid

0000-0002-7971-4318

Volume

67

Article Issue

9

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48208

Issue Date

2024-09-01

Receive Date

2024-07-06

Publish Date

2024-09-01

Page Start

693

Page End

699

Print ISSN

0449-2285

Online ISSN

2357-0245

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https://ejchem.journals.ekb.eg/article_373208.html

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373,208

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Original Article

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297

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Publication Title

Egyptian Journal of Chemistry

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

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A Green Approach to Produce Low-cost Waste Rubber Tiles Upheld with Recycled Polyethylene and Bagasse

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Created At

30 Dec 2024