European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience

Authors
Haripriya. R, Selvaraj. C, Naveenraj. D, Kirubakaran. S.A, Muthukumar. V, P. Thirumalaivasan

Abstract
Lignocellulosic substrates such as, rice straw, sugarcane bagasse and corpith were pretreated following physical, chemical and biological methods. Pretreatment with NaOH (4 and 6%) released a maximum of 78% and 80% cellulose in both sugarcane baggase and rice straw whereas HCl (3%) released 70% cellulose in coir pith. The pretreated substrates were analyzed by FTIR.