Method of forming glass-like sheets using date palm seeds

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Method of forming glass-like sheets using date palm seeds

  • US 12,098,506 B1

  • الصحة - Health

  • 2024

  • مكتب البراءات الأمريكي - US Patent Office

  • Awada; Chawki (Al-Ahsa, SA), Al Othoum; Mohd Al Saleh (Al-Ahsa, SA), Albossed; Mohammed Ibrahim (Al-Ahsa, SA)

  • A method of forming glass-like sheets using date palm seeds is provided. The method includes milling date palm seeds to form a powder. The powder is compressed to form discs, after which the discs are immersed in a delignification solution followed by removal from the delignification solution and washing. The discs formed from the date palm seed powder are immersed in a bleaching solution until a change in color is observed from opaque to transparent. The transparent discs thus formed are then hardened through application of an epoxy resin. The initial grinding procedure may be substituted by an initial slicing step of the date palm seeds in a similar method of forming the glass-like sheets.