Biorefinery process for the simultaneous recovery of lignin, hemicelluloses, cellulose nanocrystals and silica from rice husk and Arundo donax

Industrial Crops and Products

Volumn 86, Issue , 2016, Pages 31-39

  Barana, Davide ^a   Salanti, Anika ^b   Orlandi, Marco ^b   Ali, Danish S ^a,c   Zoia, Luca ^b  

^a Pirelli Labs SpA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^c National Centre for Physics   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Arundo donax; Cellulose nanocrystals; Hemicelluloses; Lignin; Rice husk; Silica

Indexed keywords

CELLULOSE DERIVATIVES; HYDROLYSIS; INCINERATION; LIGNIN; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NANOCRYSTALS; PAPER AND PULP MILLS; REFINING; SILICA;

ARUNDO DONAX; CELLULOSE NANO-CRYSTALS; CELLULOSE NANOCRYSTAL (CNCS); CONCENTRATED SULFURIC ACIDS; HEMICELLULOSES; INTEGRATED BIOREFINERY; RICE HUSK; SPECTROSCOPIC CHARACTERIZATION;

CELLULOSE;

CELLULOSE; CHLORINE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GRASS; HYDROLYSIS; LIGNIN; RICE; SILICA; SULFURIC ACID;

CELLULOSE; HEMICELLULOSES; LIGNINS; RICE; SILICA;

ARUNDO DONAX;

EID: 84962483077     PISSN: 09266690     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.indcrop.2016.03.029     Document Type: Article

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