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 ceiling boards were prepared by mixing BS/binder, PKS/binder, and PKS/BS/binder at different ratios of 20/80, 40/60, 60/40, and 80/20 and represented as samples (A1, A2, A3 and A4), (B1, B2, B3 and B4), and (C1, C2, C3 and C4) respectively. The samples were cast by flat press process in rectangular sheet shape mould of 187 mm ×...