Sustainable Alternative Ceiling Boards Using Palm Kernel Shell (PKS) and Balanite Shell (BS)

This paper presents an experimental study to investigate sustainable alternative ceiling boards using PKS and BS. The were prepared by mixing BS/binder, PKS/binder, PKS/BS/binder at different ratios of 20/80, 40/60, 60/40, 80/20 represented as samples (A1, A2, A3 A4), (B1, B2, B3 B4), (C1, C2, C3 C4) respectively. cast flat press process in rectangular sheet shape mould 187 mm × 125 3 mm, cut into specimen sizes 30 40 then tested for dry shrinkage, water absorption, apparent porosity, bulk density, flaking, hardness properties. morphology the was examined SEM. Results analysis show that irrespective filler loadings properties / binder particularly 20/80 ratio ‘‘B1” displayed better shrinkage 3.7%; absorption 12.4%; porosity 15%; density 2.3 g/cm3; flaking 0.05 g 57.6 Hv which approximates those conventional with physical compared BS/binder ‘‘A1” ‘‘C1”. These results, therefore, suggest improved strength could be used a production boards.