Development of bioplastics from oil plant by-products

The feasibility of making bioplastics out of oil cake from Crambe Abyssinica, Brassica Carinata and Brassica Napus (Rapeseed) was studied in order to produce added value for these by-products. The materials were hot pressed and extruded at 100 ˚C using glycerol as a plasticizer. Pressing without pla...

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Autor principal: Johansson, Therese
Formato: H2
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: SLU/Agrosystems (until 121231) 2010
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description The feasibility of making bioplastics out of oil cake from Crambe Abyssinica, Brassica Carinata and Brassica Napus (Rapeseed) was studied in order to produce added value for these by-products. The materials were hot pressed and extruded at 100 ˚C using glycerol as a plasticizer. Pressing without plasticizer produced brittle materials. Tensile properties, moisture content, water and oil absorption were determined for the hot pressed sheets. Ball milling of the oil cake did not result in improved properties of the pressed sheets. As the three plants all have semi-drying oils, a siccative was added in different concentrations to crosslink the oil and add to the matrix of the bioplastic. Sheets were pressed after preheating the materials 0h, 2 h or 6 h. Sheets were also pressed from granulated extrudate with different concentrations of siccative after pre-heating for 0 h or 2 h. Tensile properties, moisture content, water and oil absorption were determined for the pressed sheets. Pre-heating before pressing had a larger impact than siccative concentration on the properties of crambe and carinata sheets. Siccative concentration had larger influences on the properties of rapeseed cake sheets. Carinata and rapeseed cake were easier to process than crambe as they flowed better. Carinata sheets and extrudates were more flexible than crambe and rapeseed cake sheets and extrudates. A tray could be pressed from a mixture of crambe and rapeseed cake. All three materials show potential to be used as bioplastics for rigid items, perhaps in packaging applications.
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spelling RepoSLU19652012-04-20T14:16:33Z Development of bioplastics from oil plant by-products Utveckling av bioplaster från restprodukter av oljeväxter Johansson, Therese bioplastics oil plant compression moulding extrusion crambe abyssinica brassica carinata rapeseed The feasibility of making bioplastics out of oil cake from Crambe Abyssinica, Brassica Carinata and Brassica Napus (Rapeseed) was studied in order to produce added value for these by-products. The materials were hot pressed and extruded at 100 ˚C using glycerol as a plasticizer. Pressing without plasticizer produced brittle materials. Tensile properties, moisture content, water and oil absorption were determined for the hot pressed sheets. Ball milling of the oil cake did not result in improved properties of the pressed sheets. As the three plants all have semi-drying oils, a siccative was added in different concentrations to crosslink the oil and add to the matrix of the bioplastic. Sheets were pressed after preheating the materials 0h, 2 h or 6 h. Sheets were also pressed from granulated extrudate with different concentrations of siccative after pre-heating for 0 h or 2 h. Tensile properties, moisture content, water and oil absorption were determined for the pressed sheets. Pre-heating before pressing had a larger impact than siccative concentration on the properties of crambe and carinata sheets. Siccative concentration had larger influences on the properties of rapeseed cake sheets. Carinata and rapeseed cake were easier to process than crambe as they flowed better. Carinata sheets and extrudates were more flexible than crambe and rapeseed cake sheets and extrudates. A tray could be pressed from a mixture of crambe and rapeseed cake. All three materials show potential to be used as bioplastics for rigid items, perhaps in packaging applications. SLU/Agrosystems (until 121231) 2010 H2 eng https://stud.epsilon.slu.se/1965/
spellingShingle bioplastics
oil plant
compression moulding
extrusion
crambe abyssinica
brassica carinata
rapeseed
Johansson, Therese
Development of bioplastics from oil plant by-products
title Development of bioplastics from oil plant by-products
title_full Development of bioplastics from oil plant by-products
title_fullStr Development of bioplastics from oil plant by-products
title_full_unstemmed Development of bioplastics from oil plant by-products
title_short Development of bioplastics from oil plant by-products
title_sort development of bioplastics from oil plant by-products
topic bioplastics
oil plant
compression moulding
extrusion
crambe abyssinica
brassica carinata
rapeseed