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Pomelo RRL

Pomelo is the largest citrus fruit with three main parts - a green peel, white spongy peel, and fruit pulp. Its thick peel naturally protects the fruit pulp when dropping from pomelo trees that are 3-5 meters tall. Thailand produces over 200,000 tons of pomelo annually, resulting in a large amount of peel waste. This study investigates the properties of different varieties of pomelo peel to assess its potential for use as an eco-friendly loose-fill foam material.

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Pomelo RRL

Pomelo is the largest citrus fruit with three main parts - a green peel, white spongy peel, and fruit pulp. Its thick peel naturally protects the fruit pulp when dropping from pomelo trees that are 3-5 meters tall. Thailand produces over 200,000 tons of pomelo annually, resulting in a large amount of peel waste. This study investigates the properties of different varieties of pomelo peel to assess its potential for use as an eco-friendly loose-fill foam material.

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Pomelo, Citrus maxima or C.grandis, is the largest citrus fruit.

It consists of three main parts; flavedo


(exocarp, green peel), albedo (mesocarp, white spongy peel), and fruit pulp (endocarp). Naturally,
pomelo peel possesses excellent damping behaviour, preventing its fruit pulp from damage when the
fruit is dropping from its tree with typical height of 3-5 m. In Thailand, pomelo is all year round fruit with
the annual production of more than 200 thousand tons [3]. Therefore, there has been a large proportion
of pomelo peel, which leads to large volume of waste accumulation. Utilisation of the disposed pomelo
peels as eco-friendly loose-fill foam will therefore be very beneficial. In this study, the properties of
pomelo peel and effects of its varieties on their properties were investigated in order to assess its
feasibility for use as eco-friendly foam material.

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