Date Palm Fiber Composites: Processing, Properties and Applications
Edited by Mohamad Midani, Naheed Saba & Othman Y. Alothman
Contents
Date Palm Byproducts (Phoenix Dactylifera L.)
Date Palm Byproducts: History of Utilization and Technical
Heritage . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Hamed El-Mously and E. A. Darwish
Date Palm Fiber Composites Processing
Date Palm Fiber Extraction and Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Fatima-Zahra Semlali Aouragh Hassani, Hind Chakchak,
Mounir El Achaby, Rachid Bouhfid, and Abou El Kacem Qaiss
Date Palm Fiber Preform Formation for Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Mohammad Saleh Ahmadi, Zahra Dehghan-Banadaki,
Mehran Nalchian, and Reyhaneh Sarpanahi
Polymer Matrix Systems Used for Date Palm Composite
Reinforcement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Said Awad, Yonghui Zhou, Evina Katsou, and Mizi Fan
Date Palm Fiber Composite Fabrication Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Ahmed H. Hassanin, Lobna A. Elseify, and Tamer Hamouda
Date Palm Nanofibres and Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Ramzi Khiari and Mohamed Naceur Belgacem
Design and Modeling of Date Palm Fiber Composites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Shafaat Ahmed Salahudeen
Date Palm Fiber Composites Properties
Characterization of Date Palm Fiber . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Lobna A. Elseify and Mohamad Midani
Date Palm Fiber Composites: Mechanical Testing and Properties . . . . . . 257
Tamer Hamouda and Ahmed H. Hassanin
Evaluation and Comparison of Date Palm Fibers with Other
Common Natural Fibers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
Faris M. AL-Oqla
Effect of Environmental Conditions on Date Palm Fiber Composites . . . 287
Sherif Mehanny, Hamdy Ibrahim, Lamis Darwish, Mahmoud Farag,
Abdel-Halim M. El-Habbak, and Emad El-Kashif
Date Palm Fiber Composites Applications
Date Palm Fiber Composites in Hot-Dry Construction and Building . . . . 323
Kriker, S. Abbani, M. Bouziane, A. Mokhtari, A. Mekhermeche, Chaib, and F. Hafsi
Date Palm Fiber Composites as Wood Substitutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357
Hamed El-Mously
Date Palm Fiber Composites for Automotive Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . 387
Tamer Hamouda and Nermin M. Aly
Potential Future Applications of Date Palm Fiber Composites . . . . . . . . . 407
Anuradha Gupta
Date Palm Nano Composites Applications and Future Trends . . . . . . . . . . 419
Mohammad L. Hassan, Enas A. Hassan, and Wafaa S. Abo Elseoud
Preface
Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera) is one of the most populous members of the Palmae family and one of the main elements of flora in the Middle East and North Africa. Date palm is a very rich source of cellulosic fibers. Fibers can be obtained from the by-products of annual pruning such as the sheath, spadix stems, midribs, leaflets, and even the trunk at the end of the palm life. The renewed interest in sustainable resources and biobased materials has given a surge to rediscovering those agriculture by-products in new applications with a higher added value. The focus of this book is on the emergence of date palm fiber as a new source of cellulosic fibers that can be used in the reinforcement of polymer composites. Date palm fiber has a unique set of features and benefits, including, abundance, competitive price, in addition to, excellent mechanical, physical and chemical properties. This makes it stand out as an attractive alternative to other fibers currently being used in the natural fiber composites market.
Date Palm Fiber Composites: Processing, Properties and Applications is the first published book title on date palm fiber and its composites. The book acts as a body-of-knowledge or handbook for researchers and industrialists interested in this field. It covers the different aspects of date palm fiber composites with a focus on their processing, properties, and applications and includes up-to-date information on research carried out on date palm fiber composites covering versatile topics such as history of utilization, extraction, treatment, preform formation, composite fabrication, nanofibers, design and modeling, characterization, and properties, in addition to real-life applications in construction and building, wood substitutes, automotive, and other potential future applications.
We are highly thankful to all contributing authors, who provided their valuable ideas and knowledge in this edited book. We attempt to gather all the scattered information of the authors from diverse fields around the world (Egypt, Morocco, Iran, Algeria, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, India, UK, and USA) in the area of date palm fiber composites and finally complete this venture in a fruitful way.
We are highly thankful to Springer Nature team for their generous cooperation at every stage of the book production.