Preparation of carbon fiber from water hyacinth liquid tar

International Journal of Industrial Chemistry

دوره 6، شماره 1، خرداد 2015، صفحه 1-7

نوع مقاله: research article

شناسه دیجیتال (DOI): https://doi.org/10.1007/s40090-014-0026-4

نویسندگان

Soegiarto Adi Soenjaya¹؛ Nova Handoyo¹؛ Felycia Edi Soetaredjo^{* 1}؛ Artik Elisa Angkawijaya²؛ Yi-Hsu Ju²؛ Suryadi Ismadji¹

¹Department of Chemical Engineering, Widya Mandala Surabaya Catholic University, Kalijudan 37, Surabaya, 60114, Indonesia

²Department of Chemical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, 43, sec. 4 Keelung Rd., Taipei, 106, Taiwan

چکیده

Elemental analysis of water hyacinth liquid tar indicated that it contains significant amount of oxygen atom. GC–MS analysis shows that the water hyacinth liquid tar is a suitable precursor for the preparation of intermediate material for carbon fiber due to high content of phenolic compounds. The carbonization of water hyacinth resin was carried out at 900 °C and the yield of the maximum total yield of carbon fiber was 29 %. The carbon fiber was characterized using SEM, and XRD methods, while the FTIR analysis was conducted to qualitatively verify the surface functional groups of water hyacinth tar and resin. The XRD analysis revealed that the carbon fiber is non-graphitic in nature. The pyrolysis temperature did not have any effect on the properties of the carbon fibers. The axial modulus and the tensile strength of carbon fibers produced from water hyacinth tar are around 42 GPa and 600 MPa, respectively. These properties are comparable to the commercial carbon fiber.

کلیدواژه‌ها

Water hyacinth؛ Carbon fiber؛ Liquid tar؛ Resin