{"id":393811,"date":"2021-01-06T11:28:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T05:58:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=393811"},"modified":"2021-01-06T22:48:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T17:18:01","slug":"team-turns-pineapple-waste-into-disposable-parts-for-drone-in-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/team-turns-pineapple-waste-into-disposable-parts-for-drone-in-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Team turns pineapple waste into disposable parts for drone in Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>The project, headed by Professor Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan at Malaysia\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are transforming the leaf of the pineapple into a fibre that can be used for aerospace application, basically inventing a drone,\u201d he told Reuters at a workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s 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. \u201cWe are transforming the leaf of the pineapple into a fibre that can be used for aerospace application, basically inventing a drone,\u201d he told Reuters at a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[184,141,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-hindustantimes","category-hindustantimes","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}