Production of Molded Pulp Packaging from Rice Straw and Bagasse Coating by Chitosan
Abstract
Nowadays, plastics are commonly used as food packaging. Plastics take a long time to decompose, causing problems for both pollution and health. People are turning to interest in biodegradable biomass packaging. The objective of this research was to study the production of biomass fiber packaging. Two types of biomass materials were rice straw and bagasse with tapioca starch as binder. The production process was started by boiling the material for pretreatment and fiber digestion with sodium hydroxide. The treated fibers were washed, spun, mixed with a binder, made the fiber sheet, and dried. Then the sheets were put into an extruder at 170°C for 90 seconds. The effect of fiber content at 100, 200, and 300 g/piece were monitored with the binder content of 50, 100, and 150 g/piece. The coating with chitosan before and after package forming by extruder was studied using the concentration of 2% wt. chitosan. The tensile strength test and water absorption test of the prepared packaging were measured. The result showed that the optimum condition for the packaging preparation was the fiber content at 200 g/piece and binder content at 50 g/piece. The coating with chitosan after forming package can get more reduction in water absorption percentage. Coating the packaging from rice straw and bagasse have resulted in reducing the water absorption from 27.06±0.58% and 22.36±0.32% to 4.26±0.37% and 8.52±0.19%, respectively. The production of packaging from rice straw and bagasse at optimum conditions has a maximum tensile strength of 15.8±0.54 MPa and 10.6±0.09, respectively. Then the molded pulp packaging can be used to replace plastic for both wet and dry food. Keywords : packaging ; rice straw ; bagasse ; chitosan ; binderReferences
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Chanthungorn, N., & Tanprasert, K. (2016). Effect of coating with konjac glucomannan and chitosan blend on water and grease resistance of paperboard. Journal of Science and technology, 3(1), 30-42. (in Thai)
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