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Manufacturing of roofing tiles by using plastic waste and agricultural waste

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dc.contributor.author Wijerathne, DS
dc.contributor.author Rajamanthree, HL
dc.contributor.author Premachandra, BAJK
dc.contributor.editor Rathnasiri, PG
dc.date.accessioned 2022-04-26T10:53:51Z
dc.date.available 2022-04-26T10:53:51Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.citation Wijerathne, D.S., Rajamanthree, H.L., & Premachandra, B.A.J.K. (2019). Manufacturing of roofing tiles by using plastic waste and agricultural waste [Extended Abstract]. In P.G. Rathnasiri (Ed.), Proceedings of Undergraduate Research Symposium Chemical and Process Engineering 2019 (pp.108-110). Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Moratruwa. en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/17717
dc.description.abstract Most available agricultural waste, rice husks and plastic waste, HDPE were selected as raw materials. HDPE is a huge waste material in Sri Lanka. Therefore, it is very important to select HDPE as a raw material for roofing tile. According to the paddy statics in Sri Lanka the production of rice for the year 2017, is roughly equals to 2,383,000MT. Therefore, it can be assumed that much of rice husks are generated as agricultural waste. Hence, those materials were applied to make new composite material. Main objective of this research is reduced the waste emission and making durable and environment friendly roofing material of HDPE waste. Rice Husk was grinded, and a fine dust was obtained. After that, equal size of rice husk (3mm) was obtained by sieving. Materials were mixed in plasticorder mixture according to 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, 20%, 25% weight percentage of rice husk. Total weight of sample must be 40g for this equipment and it helps to obtain well-mixed sample of rice husk and HDPE. Mixed materials were subjected to the compression mould machine. Total weight of sample must be 80g for this equipment and it helps to obtain required thickness of material sheets for the experiments. Two samples from plasticorder were needed to prepare one material sheet from compression mould. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Moratuwa en_US
dc.title Manufacturing of roofing tiles by using plastic waste and agricultural waste en_US
dc.type Conference-Extended-Abstract en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Chemical and Process Engineering en_US
dc.identifier.year 2019 en_US
dc.identifier.conference Undergraduate Research Symposium Chemical and Process Engineering 2019 en_US
dc.identifier.place Katubedda en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 108-110 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of Undergraduate Research Symposium Chemical and Process Engineering 2019
dc.identifier.email jagath@uom.lk en_US


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