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ArticlePolymers2021

Glycerol Assisted Pretreatment of Lignocellulose Wheat Straw Materials as a Promising Approach for Fabrication of Sustainable Fibrous Filler for Biocomposites.

Hamayoun Mahmood, Saqib Mehmood, Ahmad Shakeel, Tanveer Iqbal, Mohsin Ali Kazmi, Abdul Rehman Khurram, Muhammad Moniruzzaman

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Article in Polymers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed, 14 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors at 2 institutions in 3 countries.

Hamayoun MahmoodDepartment of Chemical, Polymer & Composite Materials Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, New Campus, Lahore 54890, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-8571-316X
Saqib MehmoodDepartment of Chemical, Polymer & Composite Materials Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, New Campus, Lahore 54890, Pakistan.
Ahmad ShakeelDepartment of Chemical, Polymer & Composite Materials Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, New Campus, Lahore 54890, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0002-0627-7540
Tanveer IqbalDepartment of Chemical, Polymer & Composite Materials Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, New Campus, Lahore 54890, Pakistan.
Mohsin Ali KazmiDepartment of Chemical, Polymer & Composite Materials Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, New Campus, Lahore 54890, Pakistan.
Abdul Rehman KhurramDepartment of Chemical, Polymer & Composite Materials Engineering, University of Engineering & Technology, New Campus, Lahore 54890, Pakistan.
Muhammad MoniruzzamanDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Universiti Teknologi Petronas, Bandar Seri Iskandar, Perak 32610, Malaysia.
University of Engineering and Technology Lahore · PKUniversiti Teknologi Petronas · MY

Funding

Higher Education Commission, Pakistan NRPU-9524University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore ORIC/104-ASRB/1177
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Glycerol pretreatment is a promising method for the environmentally-friendly transformation of lignocellulosic materials into sustainable cellulose-rich raw materials (i.e., biopolymer) to fabricate biocomposites. Here, a comparison of aqueous acidified glycerol (AAG) pretreatment of wheat straw (WS) with alkaline, hot water, and dilute acid pretreatments on the thermal and mechanical characteristics of their fabricated composite board is presented. A comparison of total energy expenditure during WS pretreatment with AAG and other solutions was estimated and a comparative influence of AAG processing on lignocellulosic constituents and thermal stability of WS fiber was studied. Results imply that AAG pretreatment was superior in generating cellulose-rich fiber (CRF) as compared to other pretreatments and enhanced the cellulose contents by 90% compared to raw WS fiber. Flexural strength of acidic (40.50 MPa) and hot water treated WS composite (38.71 MPa) was higher compared to the value of 33.57 MPa for untreated composite, but AAG-treated composites exhibited lower values of flexural strength (22.22 MPa) compared to untreated composite samples. Conversely, AAG pretreatment consumed about 56% lesser energy for each kg of WS processed as compared to other pretreatments. These findings recognize that glycerol pretreatment could be a clean and new pretreatment strategy to convert agricultural waste into high-quality CRF as a sustainable raw material source for engineered biocomposite panels.

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biocomposite boardenergy consumptionglycerol pretreatmentlignocellulosic biomass

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PMID33530601
PMCPMC7865469
OpenAlexW3125563770

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