Scrapped cigarette filter and coconut coir filled polymer composite

Abstract

In this present work, the fabrication of polymer composites from the scrapped cigarette filter and coconut coir has been made in a diligent manner. Concerning the useful properties imparted on polymer composites, coconut coir and cigarette filter have been the foremost material to be employed in preparation of composite. The fabricated polymer has undergone tensile, flexural strength and impact strength tests. The results were much appreciable in the sense of the effectiveness of strength imparted by the blend of coconut coir and cigarette filter. The tensile strength of composite was found to be increased corresponding to value of filler content added to composite. Nevertheless, the tensile strength decreased when the filler content was beyond 40%. Flexural testing, Wear Test and impact strength and has followed the same trend corresponding to the filler content. Evidently, the impartation of mechanical properties on polymer composites by the coconut coir and cigarette filter blend has been clearly visible in the results obtained from the tests. The blending of coir and cigarette filter has been significant in enriching the strength and other mechanical properties.