8. Conclusions
The biological macromolecule rich banana plant residues
include its leaves, pith, pseudo-stem and rotten banana. Banana
plant residue can be used as an important resource for soil
conditioning, bio-adsorbent and cheap feedstock for bio-energy
production. Universally,the estimated quantity of bananafibre production
is about 2.881 million tonnes per annum. Macromolecule
rich banana fibre is a potential engineering reinforcing materials
for composite manufacturing because banana fibre demonstrate
an excellent tensile strength of 458 ± 257 MPa with the tensile
modulus about 17.14 ± 10.72 GPa. Use of banana fibre has great
scope in natural fibre composites which produces low density and
high strength. Banana fibre composite showed high tensile strength
around 78 MPa with epoxy matrix and also good flexural strength
84 MPa and impact energy of 40 kJ/m2. This is due to the transmission
and distribution of the applied stress from epoxy to the
banana fibre resulting in higher strength. Banana fibre is a sustainable
material and it is imperative to understand that exploitation
of macromolecule rich banana fibres would leads to introducing a
new green materials in composite industry and the properties of
banana fibre significantly contributes in high value use of banana
fibre in composites and for making currency notes leading to socioeconomic
and major environmental benefits universally