Method for producing antioxidant-rich biodegradable bioplastic from date palm peels
AssigneeKing Faisal Univeristy
InventorsMohamed Fikry Ibrahim, Nashi Khaled Alqahtani
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Abstract
A method of producing bioplastics from date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) peels including cleaning date palm peels to provide clean date palm peels, subjecting the clean date palm peels to size reduction to provide a date palm peel powder, adding an acid solution to the date palm peel powder to form a bioplastic solution; agitating the bioplastic solution to provide a uniformly dispersed suspension; adding a plasticizer to the uniformly dispersed suspension to provide a plasticized suspension; and heating the plasticized suspension while stirring to provide a gelatinized polymeric material or uniform polymer matrix.
Claims17
A method of producing bioplastics from date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) peels, comprising:
- cleaning the date palm peels to provide clean date palm peels;
- subjecting the clean date palm peels to size reduction to provide a date palm peel powder;
- adding an acid solution to the date palm peel powder to form a bioplastic solution;
- agitating the bioplastic solution to provide a uniformly dispersed suspension;
- adding a plasticizer to the uniformly dispersed suspension to provide a plasticized suspension;
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- heating the plasticized suspension while stirring to provide a gelatinized polymeric material.
A method of producing bioplastics from date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) peels, consisting essentially of:
- cleaning the date palm peels to provide clean date palm peels;
- subjecting the clean date palm peels to size reduction to provide a date palm peel powder;
- adding an acid solution to the date palm peel powder to form a bioplastic solution;
- agitating the bioplastic solution to provide a uniformly dispersed suspension;
- adding a plasticizer to the uniformly dispersed suspension to provide a plasticized suspension;
- and
- heating the plasticized suspension while stirring to provide a gelatinized polymeric material.
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