Journal of Applied Material Science & Engineering Research(AMSE)

Department Plastic engineering, Central institute of Petrochemicals engineering and Technology Luckn, India

Publications

• Research Article   
  Utilization of Waste Chicken feathers as a Sustainable Resource for the Production of Bioplastic film with Keratin and Polyvinyl alcohol
  Author(s): Anurag Singh* and Shyam D Maurya
  
  Chicken being used as one of the major sources of food in tropical countries generates a huge amount of wastes in the form of feather which is generally discarded in the soil and water creating an enormous environmental pollution. Chicken feather are extensively found as waste material which takes a lot of time to degrade. This waste material can be extensively utilized for the extraction of a biopolymer from it. A sequence of chemical processes involving chemical method (alkaline hydrolysis) can be effectively used to extract Keratin from waste chicken feather. At present work is aimed to the obtained keratin is dispersed in varied proportions with Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) to produce biodegradable film by solvent casting method. The mechanical properties of film improved upto 5 wt% of keratin loading without compromising the properties. The water absorption percentage was found to hav.. Read More»
  

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