Characterization of Chicken Feather Biocarbon for Use in Sustainable Biocomposites

Frontiers in Materials

Christoff Reimer¹  Zonglin Li¹  Manjusri Misra²  Maisyn Picard²  Amar K. Mohanty² 

[1] Bioproducts Discovery and Development Centre, Department of Plant Agriculture, Crop Science Building, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada;School of Engineering, University of Guelph, Guelph, ON, Canada;

关键词: biocarbon;    biocomposite;    sustainability;    biodegradable;    interface;    chicken feathers;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fmats.2020.00003

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

With over 1 billion tons of food waste generated annually, there is potential for the waste to be re-purposed. The generation of products from food-industry waste not only reduces the environmental burden of the materials but gives a new value to waste. A common waste material from the food industry is chicken feathers (ChF), a by-product of the chicken meat processing industry. In this work, ChF were subjected to slow pyrolysis at varying temperatures. A complete analysis was completed to determine the yield, ash, chemical composition and morphology of the samples. X-ray diffraction analysis indicated that lower temperature samples were more amorphous, whereas higher temperature samples exhibited more graphitic content. After characterization, the biocarbon was combined with poly(lactic acid) (PLA) to generate sustainable 100% biobased composites. Both composites had moduli that were more than 115% greater than that of the neat polymer. The success of the composites demonstrated that ChF biocarbon can be used as a sustainable and cost effective filler. The use of this material gives new purpose to a waste product and contributes to the goal of sustainable product development.

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