Title
Production of Ecological Roofing Calamines from Pineapple Bud and Sugarcane Bagasse Residues
Date Issued
01 January 2022
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Morales Avila J.Y.
Ordoñez Galván J.J.
Publisher(s)
Italian Association of Chemical Engineering - AIDIC
Abstract
The greatest challenge in the world is to deal with the waste generated by different anthropic activities. Many of these wastes are not sent to sanitary landfills or are not reused, causing pollution, bad odors and can even affect people's health. Thus, the main purpose of this research was to produce ecological roofing calamines from pineapple buds and sugarcane bagasse in order to reduce the large amount of organic waste from fruit markets. Three types of calamine were produced with different proportions of pineapple bud and sugarcane bagasse mixture (1:1, 1:2 and 1:3), following the Peruvian technical standard NTP-ISO 9933:1997, and their physical-mechanical properties were determined. The results showed that the fibers of pineapple bud and sugarcane bagasse had humidity percentages of 17.08 and 23.7%, respectively. On the other hand, the ideal proportion of mixture for the elaboration of ecological calamines was 1:2 because it did not show holes and presented less thickness compared to the other proportions. In addition, the physical-mechanical characteristics such as dimensions (width, length, thickness, wave height and wavelength), traction and bending were viable. Finally, it is concluded that organic wastes such as pineapple bud and sugarcane bagasse are a favorable alternative for the production of calamine and could be used as an industrial material.
Start page
751
End page
756
Volume
92
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85133921399
Source
Chemical Engineering Transactions
ISSN of the container
22839216
Sponsor(s)
The authors would like to thank the Universidad Cesar Vallejo, Campus Los Olivos for their support in the completion of this research.
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