Published date: Jun 07 2022

Journal Title: KnE Life Sciences

Issue title: The First Asian PGPR Indonesian Chapter International e-Conference 2021

Pages: 162–169

DOI: 10.18502/kls.v7i3.11117

Erna Rusliana Muhamad Salehernaunkhair@gmail.comDepartment of Agricultural Product Technology, Universitas Khairun, Indonesia

Khusna Arif RakhmanDepartment of Chemistry Education, Universitas Khairun, Indonesia

Sofyan SamadDepartment of Agrotechnology, Universitas Khairun, Indonesia

The goal of this research was to find a biodegradable material that could potentially replace plastics. The production of biofoam from sago pulp was therefore investigated. The first steps in making biofoam from sago pulp were to characterize it and determine the best conditions for the biofoam polymerization process. According to the results, the whiteness degree of the biofoam raw material was 88.03%, the biofoam water content was 5.44-8.88 cents, the biofoam density was 0.27-0.30, the water absorption from the biofoam was around 0.35-0.66%, and the grade of biodegradability was 44.3%.

Keywords: Biofoam, sago waste, biodegradable, food storage

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