European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience

European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience


European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience
European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience
Vol. 2, Issue 4 (2014)

Pretreatment of cellulosic waste materials


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

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.
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Haripriya. R, Selvaraj. C, Naveenraj. D, Kirubakaran. S.A, Muthukumar. V, P. Thirumalaivasan. Pretreatment of cellulosic waste materials. European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience, Volume 2, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 04-13
European Journal of Biotechnology and Bioscience