Optimizing the pre-treatment of kenaf bast

Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus) is a warm season annual fiber crop which is found to be the best alternative plant to substitute the raw material for lactic acid production due to its short period of harvest time and process high quality cellulose. It is a lignocellulosic material which is naturally res...

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Main Authors: Seeni Mohamed, Nurhafizah, Anuar, Hazleen, Mel, Maizirwan, Mohd. Sibi, Nurhanis
Format: Proceeding Paper
Language:English
Published: 2011
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author Seeni Mohamed, Nurhafizah
Anuar, Hazleen
Mel, Maizirwan
Mohd. Sibi, Nurhanis
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Anuar, Hazleen
Mel, Maizirwan
Mohd. Sibi, Nurhanis
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description Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus) is a warm season annual fiber crop which is found to be the best alternative plant to substitute the raw material for lactic acid production due to its short period of harvest time and process high quality cellulose. It is a lignocellulosic material which is naturally resistant to breakdown to its structural sugars that will inhibit microorganisms to be accessed through. Therefore, it needs to undergo pre - treatment process either by mild acid hydrolysis or base hydrolysis in order to liberate glucose. Basically, three solvents such as sodium hydroxide (NaOH), sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH) were used to determine the best method for pre-treatment process and the result is H2SO4 which gave 9.83% of glucose conversion or 2.95 g/L glucose. The maximum result that was obtained during optimization process to produce glucose is 8.65 g/L, equivalent to 21.63 percent glucose conversion.
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spelling iium-67822011-11-21T16:57:04Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/6782/ Optimizing the pre-treatment of kenaf bast Seeni Mohamed, Nurhafizah Anuar, Hazleen Mel, Maizirwan Mohd. Sibi, Nurhanis TS195 Packaging Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus) is a warm season annual fiber crop which is found to be the best alternative plant to substitute the raw material for lactic acid production due to its short period of harvest time and process high quality cellulose. It is a lignocellulosic material which is naturally resistant to breakdown to its structural sugars that will inhibit microorganisms to be accessed through. Therefore, it needs to undergo pre - treatment process either by mild acid hydrolysis or base hydrolysis in order to liberate glucose. Basically, three solvents such as sodium hydroxide (NaOH), sulfuric acid (H2SO4) and ammonium hydroxide (NH4OH) were used to determine the best method for pre-treatment process and the result is H2SO4 which gave 9.83% of glucose conversion or 2.95 g/L glucose. The maximum result that was obtained during optimization process to produce glucose is 8.65 g/L, equivalent to 21.63 percent glucose conversion. 2011-10-18 Proceeding Paper PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/6782/1/Nur_Hafizah.pdf Seeni Mohamed, Nurhafizah and Anuar, Hazleen and Mel, Maizirwan and Mohd. Sibi, Nurhanis (2011) Optimizing the pre-treatment of kenaf bast. In: Malaysia Polymer International Conference 2011 (MPIC 2011), 18-20 October 2011, Equatorial Hotel Putrajaya. (Unpublished) http://www.ukm.my/mpic/
spellingShingle TS195 Packaging
Seeni Mohamed, Nurhafizah
Anuar, Hazleen
Mel, Maizirwan
Mohd. Sibi, Nurhanis
Optimizing the pre-treatment of kenaf bast
title Optimizing the pre-treatment of kenaf bast
title_full Optimizing the pre-treatment of kenaf bast
title_fullStr Optimizing the pre-treatment of kenaf bast
title_full_unstemmed Optimizing the pre-treatment of kenaf bast
title_short Optimizing the pre-treatment of kenaf bast
title_sort optimizing the pre-treatment of kenaf bast
topic TS195 Packaging
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