Renewable food packaging from PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite

Every year more than 100,000,000 polyethylene terephtalate (PET) bottles are used in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. Out of this gigantic figure, 85,000,000 PET bottles end up as garbage and caused the landfills to be dumped by the PET bottle toxic wastes that leach into the soil. This may pollute a...

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Main Authors:	Anuar, Hazleen, Fuad, Faizah, J., Asma', Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul, Ahmad, Zuraida
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	2010
Subjects:	TS195 Packaging
Online Access:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/6764/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/6764/1/Poster_iInova_1.pdf

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spelling	iium-67642011-11-29T07:19:32Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/6764/ Renewable food packaging from PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite Anuar, Hazleen Fuad, Faizah J., Asma' Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul Ahmad, Zuraida TS195 Packaging Every year more than 100,000,000 polyethylene terephtalate (PET) bottles are used in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. Out of this gigantic figure, 85,000,000 PET bottles end up as garbage and caused the landfills to be dumped by the PET bottle toxic wastes that leach into the soil. This may pollute and endangers our environment particularly our drinking water. Hence, the driving force of this project is to minimize the dependence on non-degradable plastic packaging by developing alternative material made of polylactic acid (PLA) and kenaf fibre (KF). PLA-KF biocomposite was extruded and then injection moulded for mechanical characterization. Tensile properties and flexural properties significantly improved at 20 wt% kenaf fibre content. Scanning electron micrograph of tensile fracture specimen has revealed the interaction between fibre and matrix, which supported the increment in mechanical properties. Thermal analysis by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) shows that the amourphous state of PLA was remain unchanged with kenaf fibre content and imply that kenaf fibre does not facilitating nucleation of PLA. From dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), storage modulus (E’) of the biocomposite is higher as compared to unreinforced PLA, whereas the mechanical loss factor (tan ) decreases with kenaf fibre content which associated to the compatibility of PLA matrix and kenaf fibre. This could suggest that kenaf fibre is a viable source that may be incorporated into PLA to reduce mass of the end product and considerably reduced the cost of raw materials. 2010-09-27 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/6764/1/Poster_iInova_1.pdf Anuar, Hazleen and Fuad, Faizah and J., Asma' and Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul and Ahmad, Zuraida (2010) Renewable food packaging from PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite. In: Islamic Innovation Expo 2010 (i-Inova’ 2010), 26-28 September 2010, Indoor Nilai Stadium. (Unpublished)
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spellingShingle	TS195 Packaging Anuar, Hazleen Fuad, Faizah J., Asma' Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul Ahmad, Zuraida Renewable food packaging from PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite
description	Every year more than 100,000,000 polyethylene terephtalate (PET) bottles are used in Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei. Out of this gigantic figure, 85,000,000 PET bottles end up as garbage and caused the landfills to be dumped by the PET bottle toxic wastes that leach into the soil. This may pollute and endangers our environment particularly our drinking water. Hence, the driving force of this project is to minimize the dependence on non-degradable plastic packaging by developing alternative material made of polylactic acid (PLA) and kenaf fibre (KF). PLA-KF biocomposite was extruded and then injection moulded for mechanical characterization. Tensile properties and flexural properties significantly improved at 20 wt% kenaf fibre content. Scanning electron micrograph of tensile fracture specimen has revealed the interaction between fibre and matrix, which supported the increment in mechanical properties. Thermal analysis by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) shows that the amourphous state of PLA was remain unchanged with kenaf fibre content and imply that kenaf fibre does not facilitating nucleation of PLA. From dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA), storage modulus (E’) of the biocomposite is higher as compared to unreinforced PLA, whereas the mechanical loss factor (tan ) decreases with kenaf fibre content which associated to the compatibility of PLA matrix and kenaf fibre. This could suggest that kenaf fibre is a viable source that may be incorporated into PLA to reduce mass of the end product and considerably reduced the cost of raw materials.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Anuar, Hazleen Fuad, Faizah J., Asma' Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul Ahmad, Zuraida
author_facet	Anuar, Hazleen Fuad, Faizah J., Asma' Kaiser, Mohammad Rejaul Ahmad, Zuraida
author_sort	Anuar, Hazleen
title	Renewable food packaging from PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite
title_short	Renewable food packaging from PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite
title_full	Renewable food packaging from PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite
title_fullStr	Renewable food packaging from PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite
title_full_unstemmed	Renewable food packaging from PLA-kenaf fibre biocomposite
title_sort	renewable food packaging from pla-kenaf fibre biocomposite
publishDate	2010
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/6764/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/6764/1/Poster_iInova_1.pdf
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