Performance of oil palm empty fruit bunch fibres coated with acrylonitrile butadiene styrene

Assessing the potential reuse of recycled glass fibre in problematic soil applications

“…2 suggests that ABS coating layer that covers glass fibres surface was broken before the failure of glass fibres. Similar behaviour of coating breakage was observed by Bateni et al (2011).…”

“…The ABS layer coating was applied to the RGF specimens for about 0.1 mm in thickness. The reason for this specified thickness layer was to increase the reinforcing ability of the RGF fibres where it was found to be more durable against physical and chemical destructions when compared to the uncoated ones (Bateni et al, 2011).…”

“…Hence, in tandem with this zealous call, numerous researches have been dedicated to promote the use of sustainable materials in the form of industrial by-products and waste materials such as fly ash, bottom ash, silica fume, scrap tyres (Horiuchi et al, 2000;Ahmaruzzaman, 2010;Kayabali and Bulus, 2000;Zain et al, 2000;Hazarika et al, 2008) as well as natural and artificial fibres (Ahmad et al, 2010;Bateni et al, 2011;Li et al, 2000;Jacob et al, 2004). In their reviews, Axinte (2011) and Shi and Zheng (2007) discussed the versatility of various glasses used as engineering materials ranging from solar and wind energy, water purification, desalination, nuclear waste immobilisation, building materials and concrete.…”

Compressive strength and chloride resistance of grout containing ground palm oil fuel ash

“…At present, Malaysia is the world's third largest exporter of MDF after Germany and France with a total export amounting to RM1.2 billion in 2008. Moreover, numerous studies employing the usage of palm oil EFB have been conducted by researchers (Ahmad et al, 2010(Ahmad et al, , 2012Al-Oqla and Sapuan, 2014;Bateni et al, 2011;Chauhan et al, 2008;Hejazi et al, 2012;Mujah et al, 2013;Park, 2009Park, , 2011 denoting the suitability of such waste to be reused as reinforcing agent towards problematic soils. It can be concluded that EFB is effective in soil reinforcement based on the fact that it increases the soil shear strength parameters around 25%e35% (Ahmad et al, 2010).…”

Application of Thermoplastics in Protection of Natural Fibres

“…IR spectra of the uncoated and coated OPEFB fibres are given in Figure 2 (Bateni et al, 2011). Series (a) is the IR spectra for ABS, Series (b) shows the IR spectra of OPEFB fibre and series (c) and (d) show the coated OPEFB fibre infrared spectra, for coating incubation times of 6 hour and 24 hour, respectively.…”