Sugar cane composition

Insulation Boa.rd. The panel products known as insulation board were the earliest commodity products made from fibers or particles in the composite panel area. These are fiber-base products with a density less than 500 kg/m. Early U.S. patents were obtained in 1915 and production began soon thereafter. The initial production used wood fiber as a raw material, but later products were made of recycled paper, bagasse (sugar cane residue), and straw. Schematics of the two major processes still ia use are shown ia Figure 4. 

Despite the fact that refined cane and beet sugar are physically and compositionally identical, the histories of their development are very different. The story of both sugars, cane and beet, is woven into historic tales of adventure and discovery. In trade and commerce, today as in the past both industries play major roles. In the literature there are many records of the fascinating role of sugar in the destinies of nations in war and peace (3). 

Compare the composition of sucrose purified from sugar cane with the composition of sucrose purified from sugar beets. 

The composition of molasses varies from year to year, since it depends on many factors, such as variety of sugar cane or beet, soil type, climatic conditions (rainfall, sunshine), time of harvesting, process conditions, etc. 

Analysis of the Composition of Sugar Cane Bagasse and Pretreated Bagasse... 

Puentes FJ, Silva A, Sanjuan R, Ramos J. Properties of composite materials manufactured with sugar cane bagasse particles and recycled plastic. Proceedings 8th International Conference on Woodflber-Plastic Composites. Madison, WI. Wisconsin Forest Products Society 2006. p 355. 

The ethylene glycol in the composition of this PET is derived from sugar cane, by way of the synthesis process described earlier for ethylene (Figrtre 6.5), followed by two stages of chemical transformation - first into ethylene oxide and then into ethylene glycol. As we saw earlier, the bio-ethanol pathway does not completely... 

Phenol-formaldehyde resins are among the most important polymeric adhesives used in the wood based composite panel manufacturing industries [1]. Phenolic resins are prepared by the reaction of phenol or any substituted phenol with formaldehyde or other aldehydes, in the presence of acidic or basic catalyst. The price of phenol depends on the oil price and is likely to ever increase due to shortage of fossil resources. Hence, several lignin substitute products based on renewable materials derived from annual plants such as flax [2, 3] or kenaf [4], agricultural waste such as sugar cane bagasse [5] and wheat straw [6] or by-products from the... 

ATR-FTIR, solid state C-NMR and XRD results showed the composition of the fibre surface and the relationship of its characteristic with thermal resistance. The crystalline content of the natural fibre remarkably increased after chemical treatment, which was confirmed by XRD and solid-state C-NMR. HCIO4 is the most efficient chemical in terms of wax and fatty acid residue removal in our work. Hence, the dynamic mechanical properties of the natural fibre after HCIO4 treatment were improved. It was reported that the acidolysis lignins were isolated from sugar cane bagasse and curaua fibres by adding a mixture of dioxane and 0.1 N aqueous HCl (8.5 1.5, v/v) at 100 °C for 2 h under N2. ATR-FTIR and TGA of the oxidized lignins revealed a decrease in... 

Figure 13.19 Effect of sugar cane content on (a) curing time and (b) torque of a composite (author s experiment).

W. G. Trindade, W. Hoareau, J. D. Megiatto, I. A T. Razera, A. Gastellan, and E. Frollini, Thermoset phenolic matrices reinforced with unmodified and surface-grafted furfu-ryl alcohol sugar cane bagasse and curaua fibers properties of fibers and composites., Biomacromolecules 6(5),2485-2496 (2005). 

C. Onesippe, N. Passe-coutrin, F. Toro, S. Delvasto, K. Bilba, and M. Arsene, Composites Part A Sugar cane bagasse fibres reinforced cement composites Thermal considerations, Compos. Part A 41(4), 549-556(2010). 

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