BULACAN STATE UNIVERSITY

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
City of Malolos, Bulacan

NAME: Alcantara, Evangelista, Sapongay COURSE& SECTION: CE 4A

Proposed Title: Banana Pseudostem As Sound Absorbing Board

REASON(s) / JUSTIFICATION(s) IN CHOOSING THE TOPIC:

The banana was the main natural product developed in the Philippines and a steady as
much as possible worker even in the universal market. It was the fourth biggest delivered natural
product yield of the world. The time between planting a banana plant and the collect of the
banana pack was from 9 to a year. Bananas are developed in tropical locales and began in
Southeast Asia. At present, they developed in more than 100 nations all around the globe. The
banana stem was considered as a waste result of the banana business after the reaping of the
banana products of the soil of the banana plant (Musa Sapientum). This round and hollow stem
contained common fiber, the banana fiber. The banana fiber was aligno-cellulosic fiber obtained
from the banana stem. It could be extracted manually, chemically, or mechanically. It was also
an eco-friendly material and found in abundance in the Philippines. In the Philippines, a massive
volume of the banana stem was discarded as waste every year, after harvesting.

As indicated by DOST, this tremendous volume of rural waste from the banana business
could create million tons of banana fiber if enough used. The extraction of fiber from the banana
stem was not a typical practice and a significant part of the stem not utilized for the creation of
banana strands. There had been a great deal of examines on the utilization of natural fibers as
reinforcement, for example, coconut coir and abaca fiber.

Sound absorption and thermally insulating material could produce by binding and
compressing banana fibers. High demand for engineered wood products and insulating material
was widespread among construction industries which could potentially consume a massive
volume of banana stems produced annually. In spite of these various use of the banana plant, a
vast portion of of banana plants was just dumped as waste causing environmental hazards and
making ecosystem imbalance. Currently, millions of tons of pseudo banana stem deposited in our
country as waste and most of the farmers are facing huge troubles indisposing the accumulated
banana pseudostem. Therefore, an effective economic means of reducing this environmental
problem is by extraction of fiber and producing as an alternative solution to a noise problem in
an enclosed area. Particular to reduce the noise in narrow spaces such as housing, schools and
offices. This is because porous materials are relatively cheaper and lighter than other types of
dampers, glass wool and rock wool. The invention relates to a material used as thermal and/or
sound insulation material, consisting essentially of microfibers from stem fibers of banana fruit
trees. Said material has surprising sound and thermal insulation properties, and more particularly
heat and cold resistance properties.