Norhazwani Mat Sudin <br/><br/>
Synthesis and swelling behaviour of oil palm empty fruit bunch  based superabsorbent polymer composite / 
Norhazwani Mat Sudin 
 - Kuantan, Pahang :  UMP,  2012 
 - xiii, 34 p. :  ill. ;  30 cm. +  1 CD-ROM 
<br/><br/>Project paper (Bachelor of Chemical Engineering) -- Universiti Malaysia Pahang - 2012 
<br/><br/>Bibliography : p. 31 -33 
<br/><br/> Polyacrylicamide-graft-oil  palm  Empty  Fruit  Bunch  (PAM-g-EFB)  SAP  was synthesized using graft copolymerization method of acrylicamide (AM) monomer onto EFB  backbone  with  ammonium  persulphate  (APS)  as  an  initiator  and  N’N’-methylenebisacrylamide  (MBA)  as  cross-linker  to  assist  the  process.  Determination  of water  absorbency  was  tested  using tea  bag  method  after  immersed  in  distilled  water. The  effects  on  amount  of  initiator,  cross-linker  and  filler  towards  water  absorbency were studied to determine the optimum condition of EFB-g-PAM SAP. The maximum water  absorbency  was  263g/g,  223g/g  and  250g/g  when  the  optimum  condition  for initiator  (APS),  crosslinker  (MBA)  and  filler  (EFB)  were  at  10wt%,  respectively.  The characterization  of  the  EFB-g-PAM  SAP  was  characterized  by  FTIR  spectroscopy while thermal stability was indicate using TGA. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>THE0004935(Local) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Acrylic resins<br/>Sorbents<br/>Polymerization