Comparing the Fabrication and Performance Assessment of Fibre Reinforced Cashewnut Shell Resin Biocomposite
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9 pages•Date: June 10, 2022Abstract
Land, and water bodies are affected by plastic materials. Due to its non biodegradability more
percentage of marine and land creatures have died. For 258 million tons only 35% of plastic materials
was recycled out of 63% of solid waste which was generated in U.S on 2014.So we need to find an
alternative method by implementing biochemical material for food packaging applications that could
eventually decompose the plastic materials. So we planned to prepare a bio composite material which
has a matrix phase and fibre phase which are of biochemical and natural compounds. The bio composite
material consist of cashew nut shell liquid (CNSL) as a matrix phase and bamboo, groundnut, saw dust,
tamarind are added as a reinforcement material. After preparing the bio composite material we have to
conduct various tests for checking its properties. So various tests like tensile test, flexural strength of
the material, impact test, water absorption test, biodegradability test are conducted for our bio composite
materials to check its properties. From the experimental results we compared which bio composite
material is more suitable for food packaging applications and the test results are mentioned below.
Keyphrases: Cashewnut shell resin, Epoxy., Natural fibres, mechanical properties