Production of low wear friction lining material from agro-industrial wastes

Abstract This research aims at producing and characterizing a low-wear friction lining material using hybrid mixture of burnt vehicle tyres, pulverized palm kernel shell (PKS), coconut (CS), iron brass filings obtained from the machine shop floor. The Taguchi method was used to determine optimum parameter settings obtain with low wear rate by exploring signal-to-noise ratios (S/N) smaller-the-better. developed subjected scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM-EDX) X-ray fluorescence (XRF) ascertain functional groups present in lining, their elemental composition finally morphology. control factors analysis are moulding temperature, cure time heat treatment. for were as follows: temperature 175 °C, 8 min treatment 3 h. XRF indicated that materials contained following compounds large proportions: CaO, SiO 2 , Al O Fe . SEM-EDX results two image scans reported show carbon oxygen predominant elements observed micrograph.