Behaviour of Rice-Byproducts and Optimizing the Conditions for Production of High Performance Natural Fiber Polymer Composites

Journal of Polymers and the Environment

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 838-847

  El Saied, Houssni ^a   Basta, Altaf H ^a   Hassanen, Mohamed E ^a   Korte, Hans ^b   Helal, Amr ^c  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Egypt)

^b Institute of Polymer Technologies eV (IPT)   (Germany)

^c Kaha for Environmental and Agricultural Projects Co   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Biowastes; Building materials; Lignocellulosic wastes utilization; Natural fiber polymer composite; Rice husks; Rice straw; Thermoplastic composite; Thermosetting composite

Indexed keywords

BIOWASTES; LIGNOCELLULOSIC WASTES; POLYMER COMPOSITE; RICE HUSK; RICE STRAWS; THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE; THERMOSETTING COMPOSITES;

BUILDING MATERIALS; COUPLING AGENTS; ESTERS; MANUFACTURE; NATURAL FIBERS; OPTIMIZATION; POLYPROPYLENES; PROFITABILITY; REINFORCED PLASTICS; STYRENE; THERMOPLASTICS; THERMOSETS; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE UTILIZATION;

BYPRODUCTS;

CATALYSIS; COMPOSITE; CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLYMER; PROFITABILITY; STRAW;

COMPOSITES; ESTERS; LIGNOCELLULOSE; NATURAL FIBERS; POLYPROPYLENE; RICE STRAW; THERMOPLASTICS; UTILIZATION; WASTES;

EID: 84866436841     PISSN: 15662543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10924-012-0439-0     Document Type: Article

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