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Cellulose acetate from biomass waste of olive industry

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Sun, 2014-11-23 15:51 — Ahmad A. Abu-Obaid
Journal Title, Volume, Page: 
Journal of Wood Science. 11/2014; 14(3):1442. DOI: 10.1007/s10086-014-1442-y
Year of Publication: 
2014
Link: 
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10086-014-1442-y
Authors: 
Othman hamed
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
shehdeh Jodeh
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
Nisreen Al Hajj
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
Emad Hamed
Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
Ahmad abu obaid
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
Current Affiliation: 
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
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Yusra Fouad
Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, An-Najah National University, Nablus, Palestine
Preferred Abstract (Original): 

In the present work cellulose powder was extracted from olive industry solid waste and then converted into cellulose acetate. The cellulose powder was extracted from olive industry solid waste by kraft pulping process and multistep bleaching p sequences. An elemental chlorine-free chemical bleaching sequence chlorine dioxide (D)-cold caustic extraction (E)-hypochlorite (H)hydrogen peroxide (P) was used. Cellulose powder was obtained in about 35 % yield. The extracted cellulose and cellulose acetate made from thereof were extensively characterized using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, electron microscopy sciences, gel-permeation chromatography/high-performance liquid chromatography, and viscometry. Our key finding in this study was that olive industry solid waste is a valuable source of cellulose powder and its derivatives. This is important, since our results show how lignocellulosic agricultural wastes could be utilized and converted into cellulose products with high value.

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