Wood Plastic Composites

El-Haggar,; Salah, Mohammed; Kamel,; Mokhtar, Ali

doi:10.5772/18172

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“…The objective of WPC development is to produce a product with performance characteristics that combine the positive attributes of wood and plastic. Significant advantages of WPC are their high durability and renewability, low maintenance, acceptable relative strength and stiffness, less abrasive wear to processing equipment, environmental friendly, and similar as wood feature (El-Haggar and Kamel, 2011;San et al, 2008).…”

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Potential use of decayed wood in production of wood plastic composite

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2015

Industrial Crops and Products

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Potential use of decayed wood in production of wood plastic composite

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“…Owing to their favorable properties like low density, low cost, renewability, recyclability, and desirable mechanical properties, WPCs are gaining interest in both academic and industrial sectors (Ashori 2008). The better dimensional stability and favorable mechanical properties made WPCs one of the preferred building materials (El-Haggar and Kamel 2011). Nevertheless, wood flour and thermoplastics have different natures, therefore imposing severe incompatibility during the manufacturing process, and eventually leads to lower interfacial adhesion between thermoplastics and wood flour (Lei et al 2015).…”

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A Comprehensive Review on Process and Technological Aspects of Wood-Plastic Composites

Yadav

Sihag

2021

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This review deals with recent works on the process and technological aspects of wood-plastic composites (WPCs) manufacturing.The term WPCs relates to any composites that contain plant (including wood and non-wood) fibers and thermosets or thermoplastics. Recent progress relevant to wood-plastic composites has been cited in this review. This articleintended to outline the results presented on wood-plastic composites focusing on process and technological aspects such as raw materials, fabrication, mechanical, physical, thermal, and morphological properties. The manufacturing process of WPCs is an important aspect of WPCs production. Manufacturing methods like compression molding and pultrusion have some limitations. Extrusion and injection molding are the most widely used manufacturing processes in WPCs due to their effectiveness. Recent developments dealing with WPCs and the use of different kinds of nanofillers in WPCs have also been presented and discussed. Nanoclays are widely used as nanofillers in WPCs because they represent an eco-friendly, readily available in large quantity, and inexpensive filler. WPCs are finding applications in many fields ranging from the construction to the automotive industry.Keywords: additive manufacturing, adhesion, fabrication techniques, mechanical and physical properties, wood-plastic composites

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“…From the other hand, depleting trees and forests are also major concerns scaring the global environmental society. Wood wastes are either disposed or burned leading to an extra consumption, depletion and pollution of nature [4]. Several worldwide attempts have been adopted in the developed countries to exploit these types of wastes, especially with the raised needs for alternatives to virgin materials [5].…”

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Validity of using Single Extruder in Wood Plastic Composite from Rice Straw and High Impact Polystyrene Wastes

Zaafarani

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Elkassas

2020

Journal of Engineering Research

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This work mainly aims to study the validity of using the single extruder in achieving adhesion and compatibility between rice straw fibers and plastic wastes as an attempt for manufacturing wood plastic composite (WPC). A single extruder was used for mixing recycled high impact polystyrene (RHIPS) and Egyptian natural rice straw (RS) after being fibrated mechanically to produce an eco-friendly synthetic wood that can be named as rice straw plastic composite (RSPC). The components have passed through many operations such as drying, extrusion, shredding, etc.). To produce the final product, the flat press technique was used with a hydraulic press. Samples with 60 % mechanically fibrated rice straw (MFRS) ratio were produced. The density test was operated on the samples according to ASTM-D-792 to reveal the density of the composite. The water absorption was determined according to ASTM-D-570. Using the single extruder for blending the two components didn't achieve high levels of compatibility. However, comparing the results with natural soft, hard wood and medium density fiberboard (MDF) synthetic wood. The prepared RSPC samples exhibited less water absorption and higher density than that of natural and MDF woods.

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Wood Plastic Composites

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

Potential use of decayed wood in production of wood plastic composite

Potential use of decayed wood in production of wood plastic composite

A Comprehensive Review on Process and Technological Aspects of Wood-Plastic Composites

Validity of using Single Extruder in Wood Plastic Composite from Rice Straw and High Impact Polystyrene Wastes

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