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Ultrasonic Processing and Thermo-acoustic Analysis of Orange Peel Waste as Smart Acoustic Material: Waste and Biomass Valorization

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A non-destructive technique like ultrasonication has played crucial role in fabrication of effective graded acoustic material from lignocellulosic waste material. The peculiar structural configurations inside the orange peel have attracted the researcher to fabricate green acoustic material as well as many technological products.The noise reduction property of orange peel fibres of different particle size has been improved considerably after ultrasonically mercerization of NaOH. Advanced characterization and measurement was performed to execute the orange peel as an advanced acoustic material with sound absorption coefficient 0.886 which is a Class-B noise absorber. The TGA and DSC analysis was performed with biodegradability 66.2% which is quite favourable from the environmental point of view. The data recorded from DSC analysis indicates the high resistance of temperature up to 371.51 °C. Thermal conductivity of the fabricated orange peel composite was measured by thermal analyzer with TS-3 sensor of accuracy ± 10%. The linear regression analysis of thermal conductivity and sound absorption coefficient are supporting experimental value making coefficient of correlation (R2) close to unit. The result confirms that ultrasonic treated composite has potential to absorb 88.6% of sound classifying it a Class-B noise absorber.

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The authors are grateful to the Planning and Convergence Department, Government of Odisha for financial sustenance of the Project No. 2751 PC-INO-ACTI-0010-2018/P, as well as Vice-Chancellor VSSUT, Burla for laboratory facilities to execute the project.

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Singh, P.P., Nath, G. Ultrasonic Processing and Thermo-acoustic Analysis of Orange Peel Waste as Smart Acoustic Material: Waste and Biomass Valorization. Waste Biomass Valor 13, 2905–2916 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12649-022-01699-9

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