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The paper aims to study the soaking time on hardness and tensile strength for mercerization modified raffia palm fibre, which will be gathered, extracted, retted, processed and treated with 5% and 10% NaOH concentration using a soaking time of 60(1hr), 120(2hrs), 180(3hrs) and 240 minutes(4hrs) at a varying fibre length of 50, 60, 70 and 80mm. From the experiment conducted for hardness, the maximum optimum value of 395 HB was recorded at 60mm fibre length for 2 hours using 10% NaOH concentration. While the strength gave an average optimum value of 768Mpa at 70mm fibre length for 3 hours using 5% NaOH concentration at varying the soaking time for mercerization modified fibre. The fibre was grounded into smaller particles size and reinforced with high-density polyethylene (HDPE). Different test samples for the production of oil and gas facilities like pipes and pipe joints, a storage system (pressure vessel), etc. and also for producing interior paneling for aircraft and automobiles, household tables and chairs, window frames, laptop cases, and another consumer item. Keywords : Raffia Palm, Soaking Time, Mercerization, high-density polyethylene DOI : 10.7176/ISDE/10-6-02 Publication date :July 31st 2019

Comparative Analysis of Soaking Time on Hardness and Tensile Strength for Mercerization Treated Raffia Palm Fibre