Effect of Ionic Liquid Pretreatment on the Thermal Degradation Kinetics of Oil Palm Biomass Based Composites

• Main Author: Lau, Jin Jie
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS 2016
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/22537/1/LAU%20JIN%20JIE%2016193%20DISSERTATION%20.pdf; http://utpedia.utp.edu.my/22537/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Petronas

Oil palm frond biomass is type of lignocellulose substance that has high potential to be fabricated into useful substances such as bio-composite material. However pretreatment has to be performed on it prior to the fabrication process in for the enhancement in its mechanical and thermal properties. Several other studies have carried our similar pretreatment process on biocomposite material and reported improvements on the mechanical properties. This research work intends to carry out both Ionic Liquid and conventional non-ionic liquid pretreatment on oil palm biocomposite for the determination of its improved thermal degradation kinetics and correlates the finding with the reported mechanical properties improvements in earlier research papers.