NEW CELLULOSIC-BASED ACOUSTIC WALL BOARD MATERIAL FROM PAPER WASTE

Paper waste is a common pollution that encounter by the world nowadays. The paper industry
ranks 4th in contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and contribute 9% of the manufacturing
sector's carbon emissions. Facts show that typical business office will produce about 1.5 pounds
of paper waste per employee each day. Increase in generation of the paper waste around the
world, especially in developing countries, has created a need to develop new ways to use this
waste to obtain value-oriented products. Due to unlimited amount of waste that being produced
every day, recycling it would be a tremendous solution. Paper waste is a rich source of cellulose,
which can be chemically modified to produce valuable products. With certain composite
combination, the properties of a paper can be enhanced and flexible. The purpose of this
proposal is to represent an introduction about the project and state the problem along with the
objectives and methodology used to solve the problem. The first chapter makes brief introduction
about the project. The report continues with the second chapter, which is literature review. Then
it is followed by methodology. The objective of the research is to study the effect of the
combination of fiber and pulp to produce a new cellulosic material. It also observes the strength
of the material of different fiber's orientation. The study focuses on two points, which are: the
properties of the new cellulosic material after combined with fiber and the best fiber's orientation
to use as an acoustic wall. The new cellulosic material will undergoes certain test and the result
will determine the advantage of fiber used in recycled paper. The characteristic of the fiber will
be discuss more in second chapter.