Tarmiti, Nurul Atiqah Najhah (2018) Utilization of banana pseudo-stem waste for the production of food packaging material. [Project Paper] (Submitted)
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Abstract
Banana residue is a waste from banana plantation and has the potential to be converted into providing profitable products. Among the residue, banana pseudo-stem is a promising cellulose source that remains underutilized whereby the cellulose from the pseudo-stem has a good potential to be used in a bio-plastic production. To date, there is abundance of waste from the usage of petroleum based plastic thus causing the environmental pollution in the world. Most of the plastic is non-recyclable and nondegradable. Hence, this work was directed towards developing biodegradable films from natural resources such as tapioca starch which is more sustainable and environmentally friendly compared with the petroleum derived plastic. However, the usage of tapioca starch has been limited due to the poor mechanical and barrier properties. Due to the poor performance of biodegradable starch film, different concentration of banana pseudo-stem powder was incorporated into the biopolymer starch matrix produce starch/banana pseudo stem (BP) films to enhance the properties of the films. Casting method was used to produce the film due to low processing cost and easy fabrication. The effects of BP concentration on the morphology, optical (color and transparency), mechanical (tensile strength (fS), Young's Modulus (YM) and elongation at break (EAB)) and barrier (water vapor permeability (WVP) and oxygen permeability (OP)) properties of the films were investigated. Although, the optical and mechanical properties of the films reduced when BP concentration was increased, barrier properties of the films improved with the addition of banana pseudo-stem powder on the starch-based film. Form the results obtained, it was found that tapioca starch film incorporated with 40% banana pseudo-stem powder was the best composition in order to utilize the BP waste. As a conclusion, it was found that the starch-based films incorporated with banana pseudo-stem powder produced in this study has the great potential to be used in food packaging film production.
| Item Type: | Project Paper |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Ms Siti Mariam Giman |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Nov 2025 04:30 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Nov 2025 04:30 |
| URI: | http://psaspb.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/2189 |
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