In Delicious Science News, Someone Made a Drone From Pineapple Leaves
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Pineapples are down-right delicious and now they have a new function. Drones! A research team in Malaysia has found a way for pineapple waste to be turned into lightweight bio-degradable drone parts.
How a pineapple becomes a drone
The project is focused on finding sustainable uses for pineapple waste generated by farmers in the Hulu Langat region, which is just outside Kuala Lumpur.
Malaysian Researchers Turn Pineapple Leaves Into Strong, Lightweight, Biodegradable Drones
A fiber extracted from waste products produced in pineapple farming could be key to sustainable, environmentally-friendly drones.
A team of researchers in Malaysia is turning waste products of the pineapple industry into a bio-composite material strong enough to create parts for drones which are stronger, cheaper, and easier to dispose of than their existing counterparts. We are transforming the leaf of the pineapple into a fiber that can be used for aerospace application, project lead Professor Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan of Malaysia s Putra University explained in a workshop attended by Reuters, basically inventing a drone.
Malaysian researchers turn pineapple waste into disposable parts for drones
Reuters, BANGI, Malaysia
Malaysian researchers have developed a method to transform the fiber found in normally discarded pineapple leaves to make a strong material that can be used to build the frames for uncrewed aircraft, or drones.
The project, headed by Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan, a professor at the University Putra Malaysia, has been trying to find sustainable uses for pineapple waste generated by farmers in Hulu Langat, an area about 65km from Kuala Lumpur.
“We are transforming the leaf of the pineapple into a fiber that can be used for aerospace application, basically inventing a drone,” he said at a workshop.
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6 January, 2021, 11:09 am
A drone, partially made with pineapple stems, flies at a pineapple plantation in Jenjarom, Malaysia December 12, 2020. Picture taken December 12, 2020. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng
BANGI, Malaysia (Reuters) – Malaysian researchers have developed a method to transform the fibre found in normally discarded pineapple leaves to make a strong material that can be used to build the frames for unmanned aircraft, or drones.
The project, headed by Professor Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan at Malaysia’s Putra University, has been trying to find sustainable uses for pineapple waste generated by farmers in Hulu Langat, an area about 65 km (40 miles) from Kuala Lumpur.