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Wettability of the fine fibre sheet prepared from oil palm empty fruit bunches
Kose, R1, Utsumi, M2, Yatsui, H3, Tun-Abdul-Aziz, M.K4, Okayama, T5.
Empty Fruit Bunches (EFB) are byproducts in the palm oil industry. Recently, many studies focused on the
application of EFB to pulp fibre and paper. In this study, we used a nanoengineered mechanical treatment,
aqueous counter collision (ACC), to investigate the miniaturisation behavior of chemical EFB pulp fibre
and compared it with chemical hardwood pulp fibre. Furthermore, a sheet was prepared from fine EFB
fibre produced by ACC to examine the wettability. The miniaturisation of the EFB pulp fibre using ACC
progressed more quickly than that of hardwood pulp fibre, and finally, nanofibre was obtained from the EFB.
The width of nanofibre was the same as hardwood chemical pulp fibre. A drop of water didn’t penetrate into
the sheet but spread on the sheet surface within 10 s. The water contact angle of the fine EFB fibre sheet
depended strongly on the number of collision in ACC treatment than that of the fine hardwood fibre sheet.
Affiliation:
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
- Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
- University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, Malaysia
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0.466 |
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Q4 (Forestry) |
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Q3 (Forestry) |
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0.272 (SJR) |
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