Production of rice bran wax based biodegradable film
2022
Kumar, T Madhan | Pavan, S. | Phanipriya, P. | Samreen,
Biodegradable films produced from plant source with binding agents to reduce the negative effects of non-degradable waste materials on the environment and human health. An attempt was made to prepare films by using corn starch, rice starch and rice bran wax solutions. Glycerol was added as plasticizer. The study was conducted to compare the cornstarch and rice starch films prepared with and without addition of rice bran wax. Film thickness of the treatments increased with the increase in binding agent. Highest value of thickness was observed for treatment, CS-10 g + glycerol (5 ml) as 1.21 mm. Similar trends was observed for thickness for the films prepared with rice starch. Moisture content of the films without addition of rice bran wax was higher than that of treatments added with rice bran wax. The transparency values for both corn starch and rice starch samples with and without addition of rice bran wax were reasonably less. The folding endurance test indicated that maximum number of double folds were 0.60. Biodegradability test reported that the films prepared using rice starch with addition of rice bran wax degraded faster than corn starch films with addition of rice bran wax.
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