Abstract:
Mankind has explored the natural resources of earth without limits, including
extraction of raw material for industry. The planet’s capacity to absorb and convert
the waste , resulting from modern life, seems to be inexhaustible. Situation has
become a matter of great concern with the exponential increase in the population of
planet. Consequently, waste production will increase by many folds. To counter this,
alternatives such as substitution of conventional plastics for biodegradables are
being studied. So ,the main focus during the present work was the utilization of solid
potato and wheat waste into biodegradable product such as starch, having various
applications. For extraction of starch from waste potato and wheat, hydrothermal
pretreatment was performed due to its high conversion efficiency and then compared
it with the synthetic starch. Furthermore, kinetics of different starch were also
carried out indicating that potato starch was the most suitable candidate and it
follows the first order kinetics.
