Objective
Like most European countries, Brazil and Argentina are faced with environmental management problems. Biodegradable materials, made from renewable products, could be a suitable alternative to replace petroleum based products advantageously in agriculture. Cotton seed proteins shows potential for making biodegradable materials. But more knowledge is required to process raw cotton seed derivatives (kernels and cakes) at industrial scale. The aim of the project is to study, for the first time, the cotton seed derivatives processibility into biodegradable materials for mulching, seed coating and packaging for agriculture. Research will focus on the thermo mechanical behaviour of cotton seed derivatives, film-forming and cotton protein adhesive properties to adapt existing polymer technology processing to make materials. Cotton seed processing technology will be then eternised at industrial pilot scale. After which, materials will be tested under real agriculture conditions by farmers. Expected results are new biodegradable materials and a better valorisation of cotton seed with more income for small scale cotton producers.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences biological sciences biochemistry biomolecules proteins
- engineering and technology environmental engineering energy and fuels fossil energy petroleum
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
- engineering and technology materials engineering coating and films
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
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75116 PARIS
France
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