Recycling of cooking oil waste into reactive polyurethane for blending with thermoplastic polyethylene
Driven by the need of growing to a more sustainable and environmentally friendly future, this research is started by mixing in-house produced biorenewable polymers (BP) from waste cooking oil with the standard low density polyethylene (LDPE) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) viamelt-mixing at low...
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Hindawi Publishing Corporation
2015
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/829795 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/829795 http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/7418/1/anika_zafiah_mohd_rus_U.pdf |
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| Summary: | Driven by the need of growing to a more sustainable and environmentally friendly future, this research is started by mixing in-house
produced biorenewable polymers (BP) from waste cooking oil with the standard low density polyethylene (LDPE) and high density
polyethylene (HDPE) viamelt-mixing at low ratios.These mixtures are then compounded via injection molding to produce tensile
samples. By using the quality of individual compounds injected, the parameters obtained for all ratios of LDPE/BP were the same
with neat LDPE whereas some adjustments were required for the HDPE/BP compounds.The correspondingmechanical behaviors
of each ratio were also examined and the results showed that both tensile strength and strain of the LDPE/BP were better than
neat LDPE. On the other hand, increasing the BP content in HDPE/BP will increase the toughness of the compound if compared
to neat HDPE. Therefore, not only does the presence of BP provide renewable properties, but it also improves the mechanical
properties. Moreover, the processing temperature and composition of BP will both influence the quality and mechanical behavior
of the product made.Thus, this study may aid any intention on processing these in-house produced polymers by injectionmolding. |
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