Done by Newton group at Ali Bin Jassim school. Under supervision from AL-Bairaq

1. AL-Bairaq
I am Discovering Materials
Food Packaging
Newton
1-Ali Ayman 2-Abdulla Ali
3-Muhammed Jasim 4-Nasser Fahad

2. Outline
• Introduction
• Activity 1: Comparing Packing Materials
• Activity 2: Investigating Food Packaging
• Activity 3: Analyzing Food Packaging Materials
• Activity 4: Evaluating the Impact of Food Packaging
on the Environment
• Activity 5: Researching Food Packaging Materials
• Activity 6: Designing a Protective Package
• Activity 7: Comparing the Insulating Properties of
Packaging Materials
• Product Idea : Self Cooling Container

3. Food Packaging
Food Packaging:
1- keeps food safe to eat and protect it from damage.
2- It makes food easy to handle for shipping and storage.
3- and also provides information about the food.

4. Activities (1):Comparing
Packing Materials
• we compared two packing materials :
1- white Foam (Starch)
2- Green Foam (polystyrene)
Part A:
we put them in beaker containing water
Result:
The white peanut degrades in water while The green peanut didn’t
degrade as it is non biodegradable
Part B:
we packed two eggs one with white foam and the second with the
green foam
Result:
Both have the same efficiency in protecting the egg but the white
foam degrades when the egg breaks

5. Activities (2): Investigating
Food Packaging
• We examined a popcorn package before and
after putting it in the microwave
• We examined how the popcorn bag works and
identified the use of each part in the package
Result:
- After putting the popcorn in the microwave,
The popped bag increased in size and the metal
patch became dark
Conclusion:
- in the popping bag there is a metal patch which
concentrate the microwave in one area and
provide hot surface for the corn to pop.

6. Activities (3) : Analyzing food
packaging materials
• We examined different types of food
packages
• We identified the materials used in each
package and the use of each material

7. Activities (4) : Evaluating the Impact of
Food Packaging on the Environment
• We examined different types of
Packaging
• We used an equation to calculate which
package has least weight compared to
the liquid inside
• 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑃𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑔/𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑑𝑢𝑐𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜 =
Packaging mass (g) / product volume (ml)

8. Activities (5): Researching
Food packaging materials
• we did a research about plastic
• Plastic is made from petroleum which is a
nonrenewable resource and most plastic is not
biodegradable so it takes large space from the
landfills

9. Activities (6): Designing
a protective package
• We prepared two tomatoes
Tomato without Package
Tomato with Package
• We dropped the tomatoes from Different
heights
Result :
The package that we designed was effective
in protecting the tomato .

10. Activities (7): Comparing the insulating
properties of packaging
Materials
• We prepared Cups containing hot water as in the picture
One set of Cups without package
The other set of Cups with insulating package
• We took the temperature every minute for 10 minutes
Result:
The package that we designed was effective in preventing
the heat loss .

11. Final Project:
Self Cooling Container
• We studied the exothermic and endothermic
reactions. And we wanted to apply this in the
field of food packaging.
• The endothermic reaction absorbs heat so
how we can use this in our project.
• We made a container that cool the liquids
inside by an endothermic reaction.

12. Self Cooling Container
Hypothesis
• The container will cool the liquids inside
by an endothermic reaction

13. Self Cooling Container
Methods and Materials
The outer container will contain
ammonium nitrate and water while the inner
container will contain the Drink.
When the water is released to the ammonium
nitrate , the endothermic reaction will start
cooling the Drink.

14. Self Cooling Container
Results:
• We will have a container that
cools Drinks fast and in an easy
way at the time we need to
drink it.

15. Self Cooling Container
Recommendations:
• We want our product to be used
for juices and for all the drinks
that we like to drink it cool as Our
product is very easy to be used
and gives instant cooling

16. Conclusions
We had a new experience with Al Bairaq project.
We did many activities about food packaging ,
we get knowledge about this topic. We
learned how to do a presentation in front of
peaple.

17. Acknowledgment
Many thanks to AL-Bairaq team from Center for Advanced
Materials (CAM), Qatar University for supporting us during our
journey with a AL-Bairaq.
Also, I would like to thank the sponsors UNESCO, Qatar National
Commission, Ras Gas, Maersk and Shell.