Design and Development of Plantain Fibre for Application in Production of Oil and Gas Facilities
Nnorom Obinichi,
Nwosu Herold,
Tobinson Briggs
Issue:
Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2022
Pages:
44-50
Received:
20 September 2021
Accepted:
11 October 2021
Published:
17 January 2023
Abstract: This research established reasons why industries, especially in the oil and gas are looking at plantain fibre which is a natural fibre composite due to low price, weight reduction, easy to recycle and are green in nature and so on; when compared to petroleum-based fibres. The plantain will be cut, retted, extracted, dried, treated, and modified. The tensile, hardness properties of untreated and treated plantain fibres as well as their densities will be investigated. The fibres developed in the research exhibit good mechanical properties in terms of tensile strength, hardness and density. These treatments improved the hydrophobic property of the developed fibre, the density of the untreated and alkali treated fibre gave 0.021g/cm3 and 0.040 g/cm3. The test conducted for strength on the mercerization treated fibres dried at different oven temperature of 30°C, 50°C, 70°C using 50mm, 60mm and 70mm fibre length. Based on the experimental results, oven temperature of 70°C at 80mm fibre length gave the highest strength of 706Mpa for mercerization treated fibre. At 50°C oven drying temperature gave 689Mpa using 50mm fibre length. At temperature of 30°C gave 682Mpa using 80mm fibre length. The mercerization modified fibre on 10% NaOH concentration at temperature of 70°C gave the optimum highest strength of 706Mpa at 80mm fibre length. Based on the results, the 70°C oven bath temperature is therefore adopted and accepted as the benchmark for developing the fibre. The developed fibre composite can be reinforced for production of test samples and products of oil and gas component such as piping, pipeline systems and pressure vessels among others.
Abstract: This research established reasons why industries, especially in the oil and gas are looking at plantain fibre which is a natural fibre composite due to low price, weight reduction, easy to recycle and are green in nature and so on; when compared to petroleum-based fibres. The plantain will be cut, retted, extracted, dried, treated, and modified. Th...
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