Short banana fiber reinforced composites have been prepared in laboratory to determine mechanical properties. It has been observed that as soon as the percentage of the banana fiber increases slightly there is a tremendous increase in ultimate tensile strength, % of strain and young modulus of elasticity. Reinforcement of banana fibers in epoxy resin increases stiffness and decreases damping pr...

The research was carried out to investigate the effect of fruit size, ripening temperature on the shelf life and quality of ripe banana fruit of two sizes, small (14 cm) and large (20cm). It is concluded that ethylene treatment with 1000 ppm for 24 hours is sufficient to initiate the ripening in both sizes of bananas. It was also observed that there was no difference between the shelf life of s...

Removal of Reactive Black 5 (RB5) dye from an aqueous solution was studied by its adsorption on banana peel biochars (BPBs). The factors affecting RB5 such as pH, exposure time, concentration, adsorbent dose, particle size and temperature were investigated. Maximum 97% removal obtained at pH 3 with 75 mg/L adsorbate concentration biochars. Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) scanning electron mic...

Agricultural products have great potential to produce untapped farm-to-table agricultural waste. This can happen because the are damaged before they reach consumers and become Therefore, paper aims investigate macronutrient content of compost liquid organic fertilizer using waste as main ingredient. There two treatments for making compost, namely composition ingredients (rice straw + lamtoro, r...

Methods for removing pollutants include membrane isolation, ion exchange, precipitation, transformation, and biosorption. Adsorption is a cost-effective method of treating industrial wastewater common commercial concentrating valuable molecules or eliminating contaminants. Banana peel one the largest underutilized agricultural wastes in Malaysia. A novel using low-cost biosorbent made from bana...

The present study was conducted to identify and confirm the pathogenicity of causal agent a wet finger rot Cavendish banana, newly reported pre-harvest disease in commercial plantations Moneragala Badulla districts Sri Lanka. Bacterial species were isolated from banana fingers at three stages symptom development: initial, middle, late. Isolated bacterial colonies inoculated healthy mature by tw...

Heat treatment of persimmon peel (PP) increased the antioxidative activity of the 70% ethanolic extract (EE) and water extract (WE) from PP. EE and WE both prevented H2O2-induced DNA damage to human peripheral lymphocytes. The antioxidative and antigenotoxic activities of the PP extracts were significantly affected by heating.