Improvement of Bagasse based Paper Properties using Definite Size Effect of CaCO3 Nanofillers

Maruthaiya Karuppaiah; Sasikala Sundar; Ramalakshmi Mariappan; Rajesh Madhuvilakku; Manisankar Paramasivam; Shakkthivel Piraman

Volume : V, Issue : III, March - 2016

Improvement of Bagasse based Paper Properties using Definite Size Effect of CaCO3 Nanofillers

Maruthaiya Karuppaiah, Sasikala Sundar, Ramalakshmi Mariappan, Rajesh Madhuvilakku, Manisankar Paramasivam, Shakkthivel Piraman

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;The usage of fillers is attractive to the paper industries mainly including cost and energy savings. In this work, the use of inorganic fillers particularly the synthesized precipitated nano CaCO3 (PCC) filler was used to improve the paper qualities with the refined bagasse and hard wood mixed pulp and compared with commercially available micro ground CaCO3 fillers. And the effects of Micro GCC and Nano PCC fillers on paper strength properties of the bagasse based paper have been investigated. The XRD, FT&ndash;IR results were confirmed the formation of CaCO3 with calcite phase. Homogeneously dispersed spherical nanoparticles with an average size of ~80 nm was observed for the synthesized CaCO3 particles, where as the commercially available GCC particles are in the micron size (2&micro;m) observed through SEM analysis. The tensile and te� strength of the papers were increased often the addition of fillers up to 20% remarkably, beyond 20%, there was no notable improvement detected. These results indicated the addition of Nanofillers showed significantly improved paper properties compared to the commercially available micro GCC fillers.</p>