Leather boards from buffing dust: a novel perspective

Developing low cost composite materials for use in footwear, leather goods, household interiors, etc. from leather wastes is an efficient way of waste utilisation and environmental pollution prevention. Keeping this objective in view, a composite material, in board form, was developed using leather...

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Published in:Clean technologies and environmental policy 2015-02, Vol.17 (2), p.571-576
Main Authors: Senthil, Rethinam, Hemalatha, Thiagarajan, Manikandan, Ramasamy, Das, Bhabendra Nath, Sastry, Thotapalli Parvathaleswara
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Boards
Buffing
Composite materials
Dust
Earth and Environmental Science
Environment
Environmental Economics
Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
Environmental policy
Fourier transforms
Gravimetric analysis
Industrial and Production Engineering
Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering
Infrared spectroscopy
Latex
Leather
Leather & leather products
Mechanical properties
Original Paper
Pollution abatement
Pollution prevention
Research centers
Rubber
Scanning electron microscopy
Solid wastes
Spectrum analysis
Sustainable Development
Tensile strength
Waste materials
Wastes
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Summary:Developing low cost composite materials for use in footwear, leather goods, household interiors, etc. from leather wastes is an efficient way of waste utilisation and environmental pollution prevention. Keeping this objective in view, a composite material, in board form, was developed using leather buffing dust (BD), a collagenous solid waste from the leather industry. Leather boards were prepared using natural rubber latex (NRL) as the binder. Different concentrations of NRL were used to find out the optimum concentration which gave better mechanical properties. The prepared leather boards were characterised using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, thermo gravimetric analysis and scanning electron microscopy. Leather boards prepared using 400 g of BD: 450 mL of NRL possessed better mechanical properties viz. tensile strength, elongation at break (%), flexural strength, tearing strength, etc.
ISSN:1618-954X
1618-9558
DOI:10.1007/s10098-014-0831-7