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Coconut shell is one of the most important natural fillers produced in tropical countries like Malaysia,Indonesia, Thailand, and Sri Lanka. Many works have been devoted to use of other natural fillers incomposites in the recent past and coconut shell filler is a potential candidate for the development of newcomposites because of their high strength and modulus properties [1, 2, 3, 4]. Comhosts of high strengthcoconut filler can be used in the broad range of applications as, building materials, marine cordage, fishing,furniture, and other household appliances. [5]. Furthermore due to environmental factors, natural carbon suchas carbon from coconut have many advantages over traditional polymer fillers. These include low cost, lowenergy consumption, non-abrasive nature, safety in handling, low density, potentially higher volume fraction,superior specific properties, etc. Disadvantages of natural carbon include low thermal stability, low resistanceto moisture, seasonal quality variations, etc. Activated carbon (AC) made from natural sources has beenproved to be the most economical adsorbents for waste water treatment [6, 7, 8]. AC is a porous carbonaceousmaterial which has a high adsorption capacity to be used as adsorbent in industries for the purpose of liquidsand gases purification and also as catalyst. Such industries that employed AC in their treatment process arefood and beverages industries, pharmaceutical, automobile and mining. In this research, AC was producedfrom Komeng coconut shell (CKCS) with different weight percentages (wt.%) reinforced with PP as a matrix and encapsulated with epoxy resin for the composites materials.
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