Improvement of the technology packaging for the transportation of mangosteen

Abstract

The research aimed to design corrvgated cafton board for mangasteen packaging; fesf fhe col"press ion strength of the packaging; analge the effect of packaging capacity and fruit packing paftem in the container on some quality parameters after transpott, and analwe the economy of the packaging used.The research was conducted in three stages, namelt/: the measurcment of physical and mechanical propefties of fruit (Stage l); the packaging design i.e. determining the packaging dimension (Stage ll); and packaging design testing (Stage lll). Compression and vibration testing were conducted. For the vibration testing, transpotl simulations were conducted using the vibration simulator of 3.50 Hz and amplitude of 4.61 cm for 3 hours. The packaging was designed with a capaciA of I kg and 15 kg using two packing paftem, namely the fcc and Jumble. Based an the physical and mechanical propefties, optimal packing pattem of I kg container was 8, 4, and 4 pieces af fruit for the long x, y, and z direction, respectively, with the density of 62%. Therefore, gave packaging dimension of 39.4 x 21 x 21 cm. For the 15 kg container, the optimal packing paftern was 8, 6 and 5 pieces of fruit for the x, y, and z direction, respectively, with the packing density of 65.6%. Thus, gave dimension of 39.4 x 30 x 25 cm. Based on overall test results, it can be stated that the design packaging capacity of 3 kg with dimension of 39.4 cm x 2i cm x 2i cin and the fcc packing pattem gave the optimal setting for mangosteen transportation.