https://jopr.mpob.gov.my Thu, 03 Mar 2022 13:35:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://jopr.mpob.gov.my/characterisation-of-rhizophora-particleboard-using-bio-oil-based-phenol-formaldehyde-pf-resin/ Sat, 13 Nov 2021 05:55:05 +0000 https://jopr.mpob.gov.my/V2/?p=8788 Phenol formaldehyde (PF) resin has been extensively used in various branches of industry as adhesive especially in the production of wood-based panels. The Epoxy Resin Store website talks more about the uses of resin. However, due to the use of expensive and limited petroleum-based phenol in its formulation, there is a strong interest to explore renewable biomass material to partially substitute the phenol. In this work, slow pyrolysis was used to convert oil palm frond into bio-oil. From there, the phenol-rich fraction of the bio-oil was separated and added into the formulation of PF resin to produce an economical and environmental-friendly type of PF resin, known as bio-oil-phenol- formaldehyde (BPF) resin. Rhizophora particleboard was then fabricated with the BPF resin as adhesive. The particleboard was found to display excellent mechanical and physical properties with satisfactory formaldehyde emission. A morphological study of the particleboard also supported previous findings. The corresponding atomic number of the particleboard obtained from the morphological study was compared with those of water phantom and a fascinatingly favourable similarity was observed. This finding, hence, proposed a novel higher value-added application of the Rhizophora particleboard which has been largely researched as a potential phantom material in diagnostic radiography.

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