TY  - BOOK
AU  - Norhazwani Mat Sudin
TI  - Synthesis and swelling behaviour of oil palm empty fruit bunch  based superabsorbent polymer composite
SN  - THE0004935(Local)
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Kuantan, Pahang
PB  - UMP
KW  - Acrylic resins
KW  - Sorbents
KW  - Polymerization
N1  - Project paper (Bachelor of Chemical Engineering) -- Universiti Malaysia Pahang - 2012; Bibliography : p. 31 -33
N2  - 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
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