New Potential Biomaterials from Kenaf Fibre Biomass
Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus, L.) is a short day, annual, herbaceous plant processing high quality cellulose. The whole plant can be used as pulp in paper industry, composite industry, and electronic industry. Initially, kenaf was introduced in Malaysia as a high protein animal feed in 2000. Trend...
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| Format: | Conference Paper |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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| Online Access: | http://ddms.usim.edu.my/handle/123456789/6208 |
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| Summary: | Kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus, L.) is a short day, annual, herbaceous plant processing high
quality cellulose. The whole plant can be used as pulp in paper industry, composite
industry, and electronic industry. Initially, kenaf was introduced in Malaysia as a high
protein animal feed in 2000. Trend towards environmental sustainability and development
of renewable resources has significantly increased interest in kenaf as potential of raw
materials for the utilization of bio pharmaceutical, bio fuel such as biodiesel and
bioethanol, biodegradable polymers, and also bio organic acid industries. Kenaf is found to
be naturally resistant to breakdown to its structural sugars since it is a lignocellulosic
material. Thus, it needs to undergo pre-treatment process either by mild acid hydrolysis or
base hydrolysis in order to liberate glucose. From this process, 8.65 g/L of glucose have
been produced, which equivalent to 21.63 percent of glucose conversion. Next, the
fermentation process was conducted by using Lactobacillus rhamnosus as microbes to
produce lactic acid. After the fermentation process, the lactic acid was then purified and
being synthesis into poly lactic acid either by polycondensation method or ring opening
polymerization (ROP). |
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