Exploration of Physical, Chemical Properties of Raw and Alkali Treated Terminalia Catappa Fruit Fibers

N Dhandapani¹, A Megalingam Murugan², P Nithyakalyani³

¹Research Scholar, ³PG Student, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Angel College of Engineering and Technology
²Associate Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bannari Amman Institute of Technology

Abstract

The environmental sustainability level is enhanced while using natural fibers as raw material in various industries like textile, building, plastics, and automotive industries due to acquiring properties like non-hazardous, light weight, recyclable, ample and reasonably priced. Terminalia Catappa fruit fiber is one such type fiber which was extracted from Terminalia Catappa fruit. The physical and chemical properties such as density, cellulose, wax, moisture, were experimentally found out from this fiber. In this paper, the Terminalia Catappa fruit fibers were treated with 5% and 10% of NaOH and the consequence of alkali treatments on the fiber properties were investigated.

Keywords

• Fibers, Physical properties, chemical properties

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N Dhandapani, A Megalingam Murugan, P Nithyakalyani. "Exploration of Physical, Chemical Properties of Raw and Alkali Treated Terminalia Catappa Fruit Fibers" International Conference on Information Engineering, Management and Security (2016): 97-100. Print.