Karakterisasi Pengaruh Ukuran Mesh Terhadap Sifat Fisis Komposit Partikel Tandan Kosong Kelapa Sawit

Abstract

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq) is one of the plantation commodities in Indonesia, Oil palm has a role in improving the economy, especially in Indonesia, because it also affects the waste of oil palm empty bunches (OPEFB). This is what makes the authors interested in conducting research to utilize waste from palm oil as a reinforcing material and the resin used is the polyester resin yukalac 157 BQTN as a matrix and mepoxe catalyst as a resin hardener. Research using polyester resin with reinforcement such as oil palm empty bunches powder with fractions of 20%, 30% and 40%, and powders were treated with 2 hours immersion of 5% NaCl using mesh variations of 40, 50 and 60. The author conducted a density test, The purpose of this study was to determine the effect generated by the mesh and fraction comparisons on the strength of the composite powder of oil palm empty bunches (OPEFB). The results of this research are variations in mesh size and volume fraction. In the highest density test with mesh 60, 20% volume fraction (1.225 gr / cm ³) and the lowest density test with mesh 60 with 40% volume fraction (1.064 gr / cm ³).