A

SEMINAR ON

“GREASEPROOF PAPER FROM BANANA(Musa paradisica L.)

PULP FIBRE”

PRESENTED BY:

MS. GAURI KINHAL

(ROLL NO: 2081440)

UNDER THE GUIDANCE OF

MR. RUPESH THALE

DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING

INSTITUTE OF PETROCHEMICAL ENGINEERING LONERE
 CONTENTS

 INTRODUCTION
 Cultivation of BANANA
 GREASEPROOF PAPER AND ITS USES
 RAW MATERIALS USED FOR MANUFACTURING OF PAPER
 DEMERITS OF CONVENTIONAL RAW MATERIALS
 WHY IS BANANA PULP USED
 Criteria for qualification of paper as eco-friendly
 MANUFACTURING PROCESS OF GREASEPROOF PAPER
 PROCESS FLOW DIAGRAM
 RESULTS
 CONCLUSION
 REFERENCES
 INTRODUCTION

• The word paper derives from the Greek term for the
ancient writing material called ‘papyrus’.
• Paper making is considered as one of the Four Great
Inventions of Ancient China.
• The first water-powered paper mills built and
mechanized in China in 13th century..
• Consumable material , can be recycled & used for
various purposes.
Cultivation of banana
Banana is an important fruit crop belonging to the
genus musa.
It grows in wild and also cultivated on large scale as
field crop as well as backyard crop in households.
It is cultivated in about 1,86,000 hectare of land.
Luxuriant growth in rich well drained soil.
Pseudo stem portion contains fibre suitable for
making ropes and twines.
WHAT EXACTLY IS GREASE PROOF PAPER
AND WHERE IS IT USED??
Greaseproof paper is a type of non-
absorbent paper that is impermeable to
oil or grease.
Mainly used in kitchen for various
purposes like layering fragile foods,
wrapping food for storage and for lining
cake tins.
Used to make jam pot covers & lids and
for separating food into individual
portions for freezing.
RAW MATERIALS USED FOR

MANUFACTURING OF PAPER
Different types of raw-materials used:
 Fibrous raw materials
 Paper pulp:-ground wood, bleached and unbleached
sulfite and sulfate, semi chemical pulps.
 Reuse pulp:-paper products such as newspapers and
paperboard.
 Non-fibrous raw materials
 Inorganic raw materials:- clay, talc, titanium dioxide,
zinc sulfide, calcium carbonate etc.
 Organic raw materials:-rosin, glue, waxes, glycerol,
dyestuffs etc.
DEMERITS OF
CONVENTIONAL RAW
MATERIALS
With alternative fibers, its difficult to remove the water
during papermaking, creating large cost disadvantage
Tree-based paper machines not able to efficiently drain
water out of tree free fibers.
High effluent output.
 Small opportunity to use residual fibers because
papermaking facilities are often far from sources of
agricultural residuals.
WHY BANANA PULP???
 Is 300 times stronger than pulped paper.
 It is water-resistant, grease-proof, fully bio-degradable
and environment friendly.
 Made using what is currently a waste product.
 There are no additives, chemicals,glues,dyes used in its
production.
 Water is not used either as trees contain enough of their
own sap to re-bond.
 In India, banana is cultivated in about 1,86,000 hectare of
land and also there is a plentiful agricultural waste in
India.
HOW DOES A PAPER QUALIFY FOR ECO-
FRIENDLY MANUFACTURING PROCESS??
When it does not deplete the forest cover,
When it makes use of waste agricultural residues.
When there are no toxic effluents from the process.
When it does not deplete limited quantity of natural
resource,
 Less dependent on external energy inputs.
 Allows blending with wood fibres for making paper of
better quality at low cost.
HOW IS GREASE PROOF
PAPER MANUFACTURED???
 The sheath is manually removed ,washed with fresh cold
water & crushed in a three-roll crusher.
 The air dried crushed sheath material is taken in stainless
steel vessel and digested under pressure free condition.
 Bleaching is done by single stage hypochlorite treatment
using calcium hypochlorite solution.
 Semi-bleached pulps obtained from banana sheath is beaten in
a laboratory valley beater to different degrees of freeness.
 The sheets are then dried in oven and kept in PVC bags for
subsequent study.
 Leaf sheath
removed Washing Crushing Air drying
manually of pulp

Pulp
Production

Bleaching

Coating
Paper
product Stock Hand Drying Finishing
production Preparation Beater sheet
(semi- making
bleached
pulps)
Greaseproof
paper
 RESULTS
 On the basis of the experiment conducted, the hemi
cellulose content was the highest for the musa
paradisica species of the banana plant.
Banana pulp shows greaseproof properties at certain
freeness and certain beating time.
 Banana pulp incorporated with bamboo pulp in the
ratio of 80:20 beaten at certain freeness, imparts good
physical strength.
 CONCLUSION

From the study it can be concluded that :

1. Banana (musa paradisica L.) fibre may be the
potential raw material for making grease proof
paper .

2. Produces a good quality greaseproof paper with all

the desired properties.

3. The properties can further be enhanced by

incorporating 20% bamboo pulp to banana pulp.
 REFERENCES
• Current 332 Science, Vol. 96, No.3, 10 February 2009
• Dryden’s “Outlines Of Chemical Technology”
• http:/ nopr.niscair.res.in
• Indian Journal of Chemical Technology Vol.15 (5)
[ September2008]
THANK YOU!!!
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