General Objective: Develop eco-packaging from biodegradable waste such as avocado seed and agave waste.
Specific objectives
- Determine the yield of the extraction of starch and cellulose discarded by the agro-industry.
- Characterize biopolymers, thermoplastic starch, cellulose nanofibers and nanocrystals using different analysis techniques.
- To study the products obtained from the mixtures of thermoplastic starch with fibers, nanofibers and nanocrystals.
- Determine the water vapor permeability of the films obtained from TPS and its mixtures.
- Analyze the biodegradability of the mixtures in compost.
Participating Institutions:
YACHAY, ESPOL, EPN, UYAMAFARMS.
Participants:
Director of the Rose Mary Rita Michell Uribe project.
- Rose Mary Rita Michell Uribe
- Alicia Estela Sommer Marquez
- Antonio Diaz Barrios
- Juan Pablo Tafur Guisao
- Andres Francisco Rigail Cedeno
- Romulo Salazar
- Fabiola Cornejo
- Maria Paulina Romero Obando
- Orlando Campaign
- Yolimar Gandica Guerrero
Awarded budget: $43400
Project status: Signing of agreements.
