Bagasse fibers

Bagasse fiber Bagels Bag filters Baghouse Baghouses... 

Rowell R.M., Keany F.M. Fiberboards made from acetylated bagasse fiber. Wood Fiber Sci. 23 15-22(1991). 

More recently, fiberboards have been made from acetylated bagasse fiber [58] and acetylated aspen fiber [59,60]. The fiberboards swelled at a much slower rate and to a lesser extent than control fiberboards [58], and their internal bond strength [58] and biological resistance [59] were greater. 

Bagasse pith bagasse fibers Alkali treated bagasse untreated bagasse. (All these were obtained from the Department of Chemical Engineering at Louisiana State University)... 

Luz SM, Caldeira-Pires A, Ferrao PMC. Environmental benefits of snbstituting talc by sugarcane bagasse fibers as reinforcement in polypropylene composites ecodesign and LCA as strategy for automotive components. Resour Conserv Recycl 2010 54 1135-1144. 

Zapeiropoulos NE, Baillie CA, Matthews FL (2001) A study of transcrystallinity and its effect on the interface in flax fibre reinforced composite materials. Compos A 32(3) 525-543 Hagstrand PO, Oksman K (2001) Mechanical properties and morphology of flax fiber reinforced melamine-formaldehyde composites. Polym Comp 22(4) 568-578 Vazquez A, Dominguez V, Kenny JM (1999) Bagasse-fiber-polypropylene based composites. J Therm Compos Mater 12 477-497... 

Lee SC, Mariatti M (2008) The effect of bagasse fibers obtained (from rind and pith component) on the properties of unsaturated polyester cranposites. Mater Lett 62 2253-2256... 

In this chapter, some results will be presented, focusing attention on the properties in terms of physical and chemical structure of the coconut and sugarcane bagasse fibers, processing behavior and final thermal properties of these fibers with thermoplastics or thermosetting matrices, paying particular attention to the use of physical and chemical treatments for the improvement of fiber-matrix interaction. 

S.M. Luz, A.R. Gon9alves, and A.P. Del Arco Jr, Mechanical behavior and microstructural analysis of sugarcane bagasse fibers reinforced polypropylene composites. Compos. A 38,1455-1461 (2007). 

E.E Cerqueira, C.A.R.P. Baptista and D.R. Muhnari, Mechanical behaviour of polypropylene reinforced sugarcane bagasse fibers composites. Proced. Eng. 10,2046-2205 (2011). 

S.K. Acharya, P. Mishra and S.K. Mehar, Effect of surface treatment on the mechanical properties of bagasse fiber reinforced polymer composite. Bioresource 6(3), 3155-3165 (2011). 

Ashori and Nourbakhsh [ 16] obtained tensile, flexural and impact property increases as high as 50% of corn stalk, sunflower stalk and bagasse fiber-reinforced polypropylene composite due to incorporation of maleic anhydride polypropylene compatibilizer. 

H.A. Youssef, M.R. Ismail, M.A.M. Ali and A.H. Zahran, Effect of the various couphng agents on the mechanical and physical properties of thermoplastic-bagasse fiber composites. Polym. Compos. 29,1057-1065, (2008). 

K.C.C.A. Beninia, H.J.C. Voorwald and M.O.H. Cioffi, Mechanical properties of HlPS/sug-arcane bagasse fiber composites after accelerated weathering. Proced. Eng. 10, 3246-3251 (2011). 

Trindade W G, Hoareau W, Razera IA T, Ruggiero R, Frollini E and Castellan A (2004), Phenolic thermoset matrix reinforced with sugar cane bagasse fibers Attempt to develop a new fiber surface chemical modification involving formation of quinones followed by reaction with furfuryl alcohol , Macromol Mater Eng, 289, 728-736. 

Bagasse is a sugarcane-based polymer that can be made into paper-like products for packaging, disposable tableware, and containers (Liyana et al. 2012). Bagasse is a fiber-pulp product that is part of the sugarcane stalk. Bagasse fibers can be processed similar to paper pulp to produce compostable products for stationary, paper products, food packaging, and disposable service ware (Baud et al. 2007). 

Table 10.1 lists the production yields and products from the fermentation of sugars from agricultural sources. Combustion of bagasse fibers can provide sufficient power and heat requirements for a typical sugar mill (Bos et al. 2012). 

Bagasse, acid and water are refluxed for 16 hours to produce furfural. Phenol, melamine or urea are added and then allowed to condense under basic conditions (CaO) at reflux temperature for 4 hours. The water is then removed by forced evaporation. The residue, consisting of bagasse fibers and the generated resin is... 

Xylitol Recombinant proteins Candida guilUermondii Adsorption on sugarcane bagasse fibers [79]... 

Vilay, V., Mariatti, M., Taib, R.M., and Todo, M. (2008) Effect of fiber surface treatment and fiber loading on the properties of bagasse fiber-reinforced unsaturated polyester composites. Compos. Sci. Technol., 68, 631-638. 

Tumolva, T., Kubouchi, M., Aoki, S, and Sakai, T. (2010) Water sorption in abaca and bagasse fiber-reinforced NFR composites. Proceedings of the First Japan Conference on Composite Materials, Kyoto, Japan, March 9-11, 2010. 

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