This research aimed to study the production of a biodegradable film from Jicama starch (Pachyrhizus erosus (L.) Urbar) for plant bag application. The film was prepared by dissolving Jicama starch in water to the concentration of 5 wt%. To study the effect of the glycerol content the glycerol was added at 6 levels; 0 10 20 30 40 50 and 60 wt%. The film was casted in a molded and dried at 60 oC for 24 h. After drying properties of films; thickness water activity (aw) solubility tensile strength (TS) elongation (%E) puncture strength and the degradation of the films were evaluated. The thickness of the films was in the range of 0.16-0.28 mm. The aw of films ranged from 0.36-0.49. The water vapor permeability water solubility and flexibility of the film increased with the increasing of glycerol content. Tensile and puncture strength of the starch films tended to increased when the glycerol content decrease. After the films were buried under the ground (8-10 cm depth) for 12 weeks they were degraded by 100%. The Jicama starch film with 40 wt% glycerol showed the best overall properties.

This work aimed to study the improvement of mechanical properties and cost reduction of biodegradable packaging made from polylactic acid (PLA) by using sisal fiber. Because sisal fiber as natural fiber is good mechanical properties biodegradable material and low cost. The variables studied were the addition of sisal fiber surface treatment with epoxy silane and fiber direction. Their effects were investigated by tensile flexural and impact testings and morphology analysis. The results suggested that the addition of sisal fiber increased Young’s modulus Flexural modulus and ultimate tensile stress whereas elongation at break and impact strength tended to decrease. For the effect of surface treatment it was found that tensile and flexural moduli increased with epoxy silane treatment but tensile flexural and impact strengths slightly changed. Surface treatment by epoxy silane led to good interfacial bonding by hydrogen bonding between oxirane ring of epoxy silane and hydroxyl group of PLA. The effect of fiber direction revealed that tensile properties of composite in fiber direction of 0o were higher than those of composite in fiber direction of 45o. Fiber direction did not affect flexural and impact properties.

Nowadays container of alcohol for warm food is produced from raw material of alloy mixture of tin chromium and manganese. When the container is heated with the flame temperature at 300 c which it is burned about 10 minutes. The container is transformed into trash that it’s difficult to disintegrate for destroying the environment. This reason is that the sawdust is taken for useful and alloy substitute. Manufacturing container from the sawdust on alloy with alcohol gel substitute for warm food the process of forming is essential that mold extrusion and compression mold are designed appropriate to size shape of workpiecesafedurablesuitable work including preparing forming sawdusttest for burningpreparing synchronizationdesign work and selecting material for mold. The result of project revealed that the burning was taken about 26 minutes per piece while metal container had 15 minutes. Furthermore sawdust container was about 73.33 percent and the temperature of combustion higher than metal container about 51.88 percent. Sawdust container costs 2.45 baht per cup and lower than 51.00 percent whereas metal container costs 5 baht per cup. The rate of precipitation into process of biodegradation container from sawdust and water showed that the rate of good biodegradation was depended on precipitation into process of biodegradation.

The purposes of this research were to investigate anaerobic digestion of concentrated food waste in biogas production system at mesophilic temperature (37 C). The effect of grinding and pH controlled at 6.20 and 7.00 on methane production were also studied. It was found that the ability of mix bacteria which had initial concentration of 2100 mg/l for digesting concentrated food waste with grinding was higher than that without grinding because of the increase in surface area (about 1.37 time). In this system the optimum condition for bacteria growth was found at pH 7.00. Under optimal condition the digestion efficiency in term of chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal was 18.81% higher corresponding to an increase in methane production rate (19.10%) than other conditions

Arachis glabata is new variety forage which tolerates drought and provide high protein.This kind of plant is suitable as dairy cow diet. The research was divided into 2 experiments Experiment 1 was conducted to study on nutritive value of Arachis glabata.The experimental design was Randomized Completely Block Design (RCBD) experiment with three treatments. Each treatment consisted of three blocks (three crops) and followed different three variety of Arachis glabata as Cv. Florigraze Cv. Arbook and Cv. Ecotart. Results showed that three variety of Arachis glabata were 28.26-30.75 % of dry matter (P>0.05). In addition Arachis glabata Cv. Arbook was grater 19.78 % of protein than other group of Arachis glabata (P<0.01). Furthermore Arachis glabata Cv. Florigraze was grater 17.63 of hemicelluloses and 3830.00 kcal/kg of gross energy significant different among other group of Arachis glabata (P<0.05). Experiment 2 was conducted to study on ruminal degradability of Arachis glabata using In situ technique in dairy cattle. The experimental design was Randomized Completely Block Design (RCBD) experiment with three treatments. Each treatment consisted of three blocks (three ruminally fistulated dairy cattle) and followed different three variety of Arachis glabata as Cv. Florigraze Cv. Arbook and Cv. Ecotart. Results showed that Arachis glabata Cv. Florigraze and Arachis glabata Cv. Arbook was grater dry matter organic matter and protein degradability at 0-4 hour and 24-28 hour than Arachis glabata Cv Ecotart (P<0.05). In addition kinetic of degradation (a b c and p) of dry matter organic matter and protein were not significant different (P>0.05) among three variety of Arachis glabata.