Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF) is an engineered wood used in furniture industry as an alternative to solid wood. Bes ides using forest wood and rubber wood as the main source of fiber, oil palm biomass was proven as an excellent substitute. Regardless of any fiber used, identifying its strength level is the main issue. Therefore, prior to releasing processed fiberboards for manufacturing use, ...

The trend of using natural fibers in geotechnical engineering has become great interest to improve weak soils due some its advantages such as local availability, environmental friendliness, and lower cost. In this study, a set unconfined compression strength direct shear tests were conducted evaluate the performance Al-Nasiriya clayey soil reinforced with fibers. Three different types investiga...

Windmill palm (Trachycarpus fortunei) fibre was obtained from different parts of windmill-palm trunk sheath and then treated by sodium hydroxide solution and hydrogen peroxide to obtain the treated palm fibril. The appearance of raw windmill palm fibre and treated palm fibril, morphological characteristics, and statistical analysis of fibril length, diameter, and degree of hollowness were studi...

Biometrics is playing an important role for person recognition. The Biometrics identification of an individual is can be done by physiological or behavioral characteristics; where the palm print of an individual can be captured by using sensors and is one of among physiological characteristics of an individual. Palm print is a unique and reliable biometric characteristic with high usability. A ...

Expansion of oil palm plantations has led to extensive wildlife habitat conversion in Southeast Asia [1]. This expansion is driven by a global demand for palm oil for products ranging from foods to detergents [2], and more recently for biofuels [3]. The negative impacts of oil palm development on biodiversity [1, 4, 5], and on orangutans (Pongo spp.) in particular, have been well documented [6,...

Biomass is an important source of renewable energy in Thailand and currently is the second major energy sources in the country, especially for households and small industries in rural area. It provides basic energy requirement for cooking and process heating in residential and manufacturing sectors as well as for processing in traditional industries. Four major sources of biomass in Thailand ar...

The palm vein is one of the most reliable physiological characteristics that can be used to distinguish between individuals. Palm vein technology works by identifying the vein patterns in an individual's palm. The key techniques of palm vein recognition can systematically described in five parts extracting region of interest (ROI), preprocessing to image, extracting palm vein pattern, extractin...

The natural fibers such as coir, flax, oil palm, jute etc are widely used in civil construction and automobile industries based on their advantages like eco friendlyness well enhanced performances whereas the synthetic namely kevlar, carbon glass yield higher production costs. Hence this present work, a new fiber, Cissus Quadrangularis, which is made from Quadrangularis plant, has been introduc...