KARAKTERISTIK FISIK KOMPOSIT SABUT KELAPA SEBAGAI INSULATOR PALKA IKAN
ABSTRACT: Fish catch handling
highly influential by the quality of fish that must kept to be fresh.
Maintaining the quality of the catch is done with good handling and correctly,
especially the storage of fish is highly influenced by the quality of
insulation (Insulator). Polyurethane is a solid plastic foam mixture by polyol
and Isocynate commonly used as a thermal insulation material on fish hold. Coco
fiber derived from coconut fruit seeds contain about 30% of the seed oil. Part
of the cross section in the unit cell has a central hollow fibers that serves
as an acoustic and thermal insulator so as to decrease the bulk density of the
fiber is very well used as an insulator because it has a low thermal
conductivity. The addition of coconut fiber as a biodegradable that has a
physical properties as a heat insulator aims to minimize use of polyurethane as
insulation, addition of Coco fibre can be done until 70%, and the addition of
95.5% density and water absorption reached 26.8%. Ability to absorb water
composites increased from 15% to 50.98%, density increased to 5% at 516 kg/m3.
Penulis: Polaris Nasution,
Sutopo P. Fitri, Semin
Kode Jurnal: jpperikanandd140227
