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Antioxidant and anticorrosive properties of oil palm frond lignins extracted with different techniques

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Context

Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis Jacq.) fronds are produced as waste during the harvest of oil palm fruits. It mainly consists of cellulose, lignin, and hemicelluloses. Lignins like other polyphenols are potent free radical scavengers and are considered to be a valuable source of antioxidant phenolic compounds.

Aims

The aim was to quantify the antioxidant properties of lignins extracted from oil palm biomass using Kraft, soda, and organosolv pulping. The potential of the extracted lignins as inhibitors of mild steel corrosion was also assessed.

Methods

Ground and dried 1–3-mm-mesh-size oil palm fronds were submitted to Kraft, soda, and organosolv pulping in rotary digesters. The extracted lignin was characterized and oxygen uptake was measured. Anticorrosion properties of extracted lignins were monitored via electrochemical measurements and surface analysis.

Results

Soda-extracted lignins displayed the highest antioxidant activities as compared to Kraft and ethanol organosolv lignins. The highest inhibition of corrosion of mild steel was reached in the presence of soda-extracted lignins.

Conclusion

Oil palm fronds are potential sources of lignins usable as green antioxidant for corrosion inhibition of mild steel.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful for the financial support of this research from CPER 2007-2013 “Structuration du Pôle de Compétitivité Fibres Grand’Est” and from Universiti Sains Malaysia through USM Research University Grant—1001/PKIMIA/854002. M. Hazwan Hussin would like to express his gratitude to the Ministry of High Education (MOHE) of Malaysia and Ministere Affaires Etrangeres de France for the MyPhD scholarship and Boursier du Governement Francais (CampusFrance). The EA 4370 LERMAB is supported by the French National Research Agency through the Laboratory of Excellence ARBRE (ANR-12-LABXARBRE-01).

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  1. Lignocellulosic Research Group School of Chemical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Minden, Penang, Malaysia

    M. Hazwan Hussin, Affaizza Mohd Shah, Afidah Abdul Rahim & Mohamad Nasir Mohamad Ibrahim

  2. Laboratoire d’Etude et de Recherche sur le MAteriau Bois (LERMAB), Faculte des Sciences et Techniques, Universite de Lorraine, Bld des Aiguillettes, Vandoeuvre-les, 54500, Nancy, France

    M. Hazwan Hussin, Dominique Perrin & Nicolas Brosse

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Hussin, M.H., Shah, A.M., Rahim, A.A. et al. Antioxidant and anticorrosive properties of oil palm frond lignins extracted with different techniques. Annals of Forest Science 72, 17–26 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13595-014-0405-1

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