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Agriculture crop residues as a source for the production of nanofibrillated cellulose with low energy demand

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Nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) from three agricultural crop (rice straw, corn and rapeseed stalk) residues was isolated with high-yield production using either high pressure homogenisation or a high speed blender. The fibres were extracted from the neat biomass via an NaClO2/acetic acid and alkali pulping process. TEMPO-mediated oxidation pretreatment at pH 7 and 10 was accomplished to facilitate the release of the cellulose microfibrils. The fibrillation yield, transparency degree and morphological characteristics of the ensuing NFC were analysed using the centrifugation method, transmittance measurement and SEM observation. The energy consumption during the disintegration process was also accessed. It was shown that the mode of lignin removal and the fibre pretreatment notably affected the nanofibrillation efficiency and energy demand. A successful production of NFC with yield exceeding 90 %, using a simple Waring blender, was achieved when the NaClO2/acetic acid delignification followed by a TEMPO-NaBr–NaClO oxidation at pH 10 was adopted.

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Abbreviations

D1:

NaOH delignification

D2:

NaClO2 delignification

O1:

TEMPO-mediated oxidation with NaClO2 at pH 7

O2:

TEMPO-mediated oxidation with NaClO at pH 10

HPH:

Disintegration using a pressure homogeniser (10 passes at 600 bar)

WB:

Disintegration using a Waring blender for 20 min

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  1. University of Sfax, Faculty of Science, BP 1171-3000, Sfax, Tunisia

    Ashraf Chaker & Sami Boufi

  2. Group LEPAMAP, Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Girona, Girona, Spain

    Pere Mutjé

  3. ITODYS, UMR7086 CNRS, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Paris, France

    Manuel Rei Vilar

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Chaker, A., Mutjé, P., Vilar, M.R. et al. Agriculture crop residues as a source for the production of nanofibrillated cellulose with low energy demand. Cellulose 21, 4247–4259 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-014-0454-5

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