BIOPROCESS DEVELOPMENT FOR UTILIZATION OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC BIOMASS FOR FIBRE PRODUCTION

Abstract

recent decades, the ligno-cellulosic biomass has emerged as a renewable resource to meet the demands of improving human living standards. Lignocellulosic biomass, driven from the agricultural industry, is an excellent resource of carbohydrates (hemicellulose and cellulose) and can be utilized to produce high-demand products such as pure cellulose, bio-ethanol, xylitol, etc. The application of lignocellulosic biomass for bioenergy production is a much-known phenomenon nowadays. Therefore a different approach has been applied to convert lignocellulosic biomass into fibres in this project. This approach uses acid hydrolysis for the extraction of the cellulosic portion from lignocellulosic biomass and then converts the acid-free cellulose to fibres using the electrospinning technique. The cellulose-rich hydrolysate is made acid-free using the electrodialysis technique.