Microwave-assisted alkaline delignification of banana peduncle

Optimization of Microwave-Assisted Alkali Pretreatment for Enhancement of Delignification Process of Cocoa Pod Husk

“…After the delignification process, the lignin content decreased to 0.099%, as shown in Figure 2c. Gazliya and Aparna [1] reported a high delignification result, i.e. from 20.11% to 9.43% at 5 N after MAA treatment.…”

“…This swelling increases the surface area of the complex nature of biomass. The instability of holocellulose at a higher alkaline concentration in microwave heating may be caused by the dissolution of polysaccharides and lignin simultaneously [1]. However, a further increase in ratio had no significant enhancement during delignification.…”

“…The second-order nonlinear polynomial equation was fitted for the experimental data as Eq. 1follows: (1) where Y denotes the lignocellulose percentage as response, 0 denotes the intercept term, n denotes the number of variables, i denotes the liner effect term, ii means the square effect term, ij means the interaction effect term, Xi and Xj means the independent variables, and ε means the random error.…”

“…The prolonged delignification process beyond 3 min of irradiation time had an insignificant effect. From the other work utilizing microwave for biomass pretreatment, Gazliya and Aparna [1] reported that MAA pretreatment gave higher delignification results (i.e. 53.10% vs. 48.63%) using lower NaOH concentration (i.e.…”

“…Lignocellulosic biomass is considered as the most promising raw material to produce green energy to reduce dependence on fossil fuels [1]. Conversion of the abundant, renewable, and non-edible lignocellulosic biomass into energy 10.94%, and 11.64%, respectively [5].…”