Some Properties of Particleboard Made from Empty Fruit Bunches (EFB)of Oil Palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.)

ABSTRACT

The objective of the study was to determine the effects of pre-treatment applied to the empty fruit bunches (EFB) of oil palm particles and varying resin content on the properties of particleboards. The pre-treatments applied were soaking the EFB particles in hot water at temperature of 70ºC±3ºC and 80ºC±3ºC for two hours. Resin content levels selected were 10%,
12% and 14% based on the oven dry weight of particles. Laboratory scale of particleboards were
made from EFB particles (untreated and pre-treated) glued with liquid urea formaldhyde and the targeted density was 0.70 g/cm3. The pressing condition during particleboard manufacture were pressing temperature of ±140ºC, specific pressure of 25kg/cm2 and pressing time for 10 minutes.The result shows that the physical and mechanical properties of EFB particleboards were significantly affected by particle pre-treatment and resin content level. The soaking temperature of
70ºC±3ºC for two hours was effective to improve the properties of EFB particleboards. Mechanical properties of EFB particleboards improved as the resin content increased. The thickness swelling of the EFB particleboard decreased as the resin content increased, however the thickness swelling of all EFB particleboards produced did not meet the standard requirement. Technically oil palm empty fruit bunches can be used as raw material for particleboard by applying hot water soaking at temperature of 70ºC±3ºC for two hours (pre-treatment) to EFB particles and the resin content used was 10%.

Keywords: Particleboard, empty fruit bunches (EFB), pre-treatment, resin, physical and mechanical properties

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Proceeding INAFOR (International Conference Of Indonesia forestry researchers) 2011

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: ., 2012

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292-297

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English

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978-979-8452-45-1

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