Effect of Adhesive Spreading Rate on the Performance of Laminated Compressed Oil Palm Trunks

• Main Authors: Noor Afeefah, Nordin, Othman, Sulaiman, Rokiah, Hashim, Nurjannah, Salim, Mohammed, Nasir, Masatoshi, Sato, Salim, Hiziroglu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: North Carolina State University 2015
• Subjects: Q Science (General)
• Online Access: http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10129/1/Effect%20of%20Adhesive%20Spreading%20Rate%20on%20the%20Performance%20of%20Laminated%20Compressed%20Oil%20Palm%20Trunks.pdf; http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/10129/; http://152.1.0.246/index.php/BioRes/article/view/BioRes_10_4_6378_Nordin_Adhesive_Spreading_Rate_Oil_Palm

The large availability and cheap price of oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) trunk makes it an attractive raw material for value-added applications, but its low density and high carbohydrate content are highly undesirable. In this work, oil palm trunk (OPT) was steam-pretreated and compressed at high temp...