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Panels¿ partition is commonly used in building to replace bricks, metal, glass and concrete walls. Innovations for gypsum boards have being developed for several years now, and its includes some benefits properties for such as fire-resistance rated design, rounded edges, specialized nails, curve partiotions, sound control systems, lightweight lath, plasters and many more to being used in both residential and commercial constructions industry. Gypsum boards along with the variety of other gypsum panels continues to provide a preferred building material either in residential and commercial constructions for interior walls and ceilings, exterior sheathing, fire-resistant partitions and membranes, and liner material for elevator shafts and stairwells. These properties gypsum board well suited for building and space types requires cost-effectiveness as well as fire resistance and maintainability. Besides of enviromentally and variable used, it also are not costly enough to make of. Partitions can be defined as non-load bearing wall that being purpose to separate and divided room or spaces in a building. Empty Fruits Bunches (EFB)are one materials from the palm oil industry that been used in producing any product related to the strength, durability or enviromental. The fiber from the EFB commonly used for industrial an farming products such aswood-based products (particle and fiberboards), composites panels,pulp and paper, soil stabilization and horticultural application. EFB is the by product from crude palm oil mill which having low economic valuebefore more application being developed. Thus, biomass ash (EFB) used as the admixture with the additions of clay to the present panel board as improvement in certain mechanical properties. Fire resistance is the most important properties in the panel partitions as it can slower the process of the fire burning. So , in order to sustain the durability and resilience of the fire resistant in the panel board, EFB were used as one of the materials for improve it as a new product.
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