Physiochemical, morphological and mechanical characteristics of long fibers extracted from date palm spadix stem

Abstract

In this work, we improve the process of extracting fibers from date palm spadix stem in order to obtain them long and flexible without lignin, with simple steps and in a short time. As well as the tensile mechanical characterization of fibers treated chemically with sodium hydroxide solution) NaOH (, compared to sisal fibers (Filasse). The results show that the mechanical tensile strength of date palm fibers was higher than that of Sisal ones. This reinforces its suggestion as an alternative to filasse. Further more, infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), XRD and SEM were used to characterize these fibers.