Microwave-assisted retting and optimization of the process through chemical composition analysis of the matrix

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 52, Issue , 2014, Pages 85-94

  Nair, Gopu Raveendran ^a   Kurian, Jiby ^a   Yaylayan, V ^a   Rho, Denis ^b   Lyew, Darwin ^a   Raghavan, G S V ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bioprocess; Chemical analysis; Flax fiber; Microwave; Retting

Indexed keywords

BIOPROCESSES; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL COMPOSITIONS; FLAX FIBER; GRAVIMETRIC METHODS; MICROWAVE-ASSISTED; PECTIN CONCENTRATION; RETTING;

CELLULOSE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FLAX; LIGNIN; LINEN; MICROWAVES; OPTIMIZATION; YARN;

FIBERS;

CELLULOSE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); LIGNIN; MICROWAVE RADIATION; PLANT PRODUCT; POLYSACCHARIDE; PROCESSING; STEM;

EID: 84887553386     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2013.10.007     Document Type: Article

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