Effect of calcium carbonate precipitate derived from sugar beet industry on the properties of poly (vinyl chloride) compounds
Mohamed Abdelhamed, Wagih Abdel Alim Sadik, Abdel-Ghaffar M. EL-Demerdash, Essam El-Rafey · 2026
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Mohamed Abdelhamed and co-authors report a 2026 materials article on putting a sugar industry waste to work in plastic. Making sugar from beets leaves behind piles of precipitated calcium carbonate, a chalky powder that can blow into water and air. The team mixed this waste into PVC, a common plastic, at several loadings.
Adding the powder made the plastic resist heat better, losing far less weight when heated. A small loading, about one part in twenty, raised bending strength by roughly a third. Heavier loadings hurt stretch, pulling strength, and impact resistance, though. Microscope images showed the powder spread evenly at low loadings but clumped at high ones, which explains the pattern. Density and water uptake rose slightly as more powder was added.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Mohamed Abdelhamed, Wagih Abdel Alim Sadik, Abdel-Ghaffar M. EL-Demerdash, Essam El-Rafey |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40832 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |