Ball milling pretreatment and diluted acid hydrolysis of oil palm empty fruit bunch (EFB) fibres for the production of levulinic acid

Journal of the Taiwan Institute of Chemical Engineers

Volumn 52, Issue , 2015, Pages 85-92

  Chin, Siew Xian ^a,b   Chia, Chin Hua ^a   Zakaria, Sarani ^a   Fang, Zhen ^b   Ahmad, Sahrim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Green chemicals; Levulinic acid; Optimisation

Indexed keywords

FIBERS; FRUITS; HYDROLYSIS; MILLING (MACHINING); ORGANIC ACIDS; PALM OIL; PARTICLE SIZE; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY POWDER DIFFRACTION;

CENTRAL COMPOSITE; GREEN CHEMICALS; LEVULINIC ACID; OIL PALM EMPTY FRUIT BUNCHES (EFB); OPTIMAL CONDITIONS; OPTIMISATIONS; OPTIMUM PARAMETERS; WIDE ANGLE XRAY DIFFRACTION;

BALL MILLING;

EID: 84930576664     PISSN: 18761070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtice.2015.01.028     Document Type: Article

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