Abstract

A green and renewable slow release material (SRM) was developed using combination of urea, epoxidized natural rubber (ENR-50), NaCl and rice husk (RH). The RH was used as a support to store urea within its fibrous structure after chemical modification with 7% sodium hydroxide (NaOH). ENR-50/NaCl was used as a coating material for RH/urea beads. Two different content of salt (5% and 10% NaCl) was used to study the effect of pore formation on the composites. FTIR spectroscopy reveals that urea was successfully absorbed into RH and the recorded peaks were overlapped with the main components of RH such as cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin. UV-Vis reveals that at 10% salt loading releases urea higher than 5% salt loading. This is due to the formation of many pores in this ENR-50 composite.

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Title
New Slow Release Fertilizer from ENR-50/RH/Urea Composites: Effect of Sodium Chloride Concentration
Author
Hamzah, R 1 ; Sam, S T 2 ; Noriman, N Z 1 ; Dahham, Omar S 1 ; Syed Idrus, S Z 3 ; Sudin, S 4 

 Center of Excellence Geopolymer and Green Technology (CEGeoGTech), Faculty of Engineering Technology (FETech), Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Level 1 Block S2, UniCITI Alam Campus, Sungai Chucuh, Padang Besar, 02100, Perlis, Malaysia. 
 School of Bioprocess Engineering, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP), Kompleks Pengajian Jejawi 3, 02600 Arau, Perlis, Malaysia. 
 School of Human Development and Techno-communication (iKOM), Green Advanced Computing and Technology (GREAT) Research Group – CEGeoGTech, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP 
 School of Computer and Communication Engineering (SCCE), Green Advanced Computing and Technology (GREAT) Research Group – CEGeoGTech, Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP 
Publication year
2018
Publication date
Jun 2018
Publisher
IOP Publishing
ISSN
17426588
e-ISSN
17426596
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2572254741
Copyright
© 2018. This work is published under http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.