Deepa VinayUpasana2019-01-032019-01-032018-03http://krishikosh.egranth.ac.in/handle/1/5810088575Agro-industries, mainly food industries, generates large amount of solid waste, which emerge from their processing, treatment, consumption and disposal. Pea processing industry involves preserving peas by freezing and marketing them for seasonal limitation and producing a very high amount of pea peel as waste. Waste from this industry is not utilized as valuable byproduct and considered as end products that have not been recycled or used for other purposes. This undesirable waste creates high disposal and severe pollution problems and represents a loss of valuable biomass. Therefore the present study was undertaken to estimate the drying characteristics, proximate composition of pea peel (PP), extracted peel straw (EPS) and extracted peel juice (EPJ). The preparation of biodegradable product from PP and EPS and characteristics of developed products were also investigated in the study. Sample for the study was procured from KLA, India Public Limited Rudrapur. The descriptive cum experimental design was selected for the study. The descriptive data was collected with the use of questionnaire to gather the information related to industry. To estimate experimental data, pea peel was extracted into EPS and EPJ. Experiments were conducted for estimating drying behaviour, Weende’s system was used to analysis of proximate composition of all three sample. Grafting of MMA was done onto PP and EPS to develop biodegradable product and characteristics of developed product was evaluated by tensile strength, surface thickness, water soluble test, FTIR and SEM. In the present study, it was found that in processing of green pea 6000 mt waste was generated from KLA industry. Drying behaviour of PP, EPS and EPJ revealed that moisture content, drying rate and moisture ratio depicted non linear relation and decrease rapidly with time. In proximate composition, PP found to be high in dry matter (16.73%) and ether extract (2.27%), EPS found to be high in carbohydrate (81.06%) and physiological energy (392.995kcal) whereas, EPJ found to be high in moisture (88.4%), crude protein (30.04%), lignin (29.5%) and cellulose (33.5%). Bio film prepared from PP and EPS in experiment T9, was transparent and smooth. Bio film developed from EPS in T9 experiment has good tensile strength (6.83 MPa), thickness (80 μm) and water solubility (4.54). SEM results shows high solubility of content in surface and FTIR depicts presents of PP and EPS in the bio film. Therefore, the developed products can be used as a substitute of synthetic plastic and this efficient management of pea processing waste leads to secure livelihood and sustainable environment.enThesis