Sugarcane fibers

Zuckerrohr-faser, /. sugarcane fiber, oagasse fiber, -melasse, /, cane molasses, -rfick-stdnde, rn.pl. bagasse, -saft, m. cane juice. 

Such an approach to fiber classification appears to be systematic and objective. Unfortunately, plants do not always follow the pattern of roots, trunk, leaves, seed, or fruit. There are anomalies. For example, the banana-like plants, yielding abaca, do not have the woody trunk conventionally associated with other plants. Instead, its stem consists of layers of thick, crescentshaped (in cross section) sheaths wrapped around each other they reduce to spindly growths that unfurl from the stem and become the thick central stems of fronds (see Section 8.2.1). Botanically, the sheath-frond system is called a leaf consequently, the fiber extracted from the sheath is classified as leaf fiber. On the other hand, sisal or henequen fibers come from the swordlike leaves of their respective plants. Bagasse (from sugarcane) fiber, used for paper or fiberboard, comes from the stem, which is neither a leaf nor a woody trunk. Thus, the classification of fibers as seed, bast, leaf, or miscellaneous fibers is somewhat arbitrary. 

Biodegradable trays from cassava starch, sugarcane fibers and sodium montmoriUonite have been developed by a baking process (7). A nanoclay dispersion, resulting in an exfoliated structure was obtained. The physical properties, the photodegradation and biodegradation of these trays have been studied. The formulations resulted in weU-shaped trays with densities in the range of 0.19-0.30 gcm. ... 

Natural materials that have been used to modify polymer properties include wood sawdust [188, 189], coconut fiber [167], carbon fibers [37], oat husks, cocoa, shells [190], sugarcane fibers [191], and banana fiber [193]. Monhonty and coworkers [193] observed a 70% increase in the flexural strength of polypropylene to which has been added 30% jute with a maleic anhydride-grafted polypropylene coupling agent. 

Considering fiber orientation, the effect of sugarcane fiber has been studied on tribo-characteristics of polyester composites (El-Tayeb, 2008a). It has been found that fiber mats oriented parallel to the sliding direction showed lower wear performance than fibers oriented anti-parallel under the same test conditions. This was because in the parallel orientation, the path ahead of the wear debris is exposed, thus easing the... 

El-Tayeb, N. S. M. (2008a). A study on the potential of sugarcane fibers/polyester composite for tribological applications. Wear 265(1-2), 223-235. 

Debiagi, F., Mali, S., Grossmann, M. V. E., and Yamashita, F. 2011. Biodegradable foams based on starch, polyvinyl alcohol, chitosan and sugarcane fibers obtained by extrusion. Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology 54 1043-1052. 

K. G. (2010) Studies of the processing and characterization of corn starch and its composites with banana and sugarcane fibers from Brazil, Carbohyd. Polym., 80,130-138. 

Jeeferie, A. R., Nurul Fariha, O., Mohd, A. R., Warikh Yuhazri, M. Y, Haeryip Sihombing., Ramh, J. Preliminary Study on the Physical and Mechanical Properties of Tapioca Starch/Sugarcane Fiber Cellulose Composite. ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences, 2011, 6, 7-15. 

Other Products. Other products from sugarcane, in addition to cane sugar, are cane fiber (known as bagasse) and molasses, the final thick symp from which no more sugar may be economically removed by crystallization. In some cane-growing countries, cane tops and leaves, separated during harvest, are used for catde feed. 

Potential resources of xylans are by-products produced in forestry and the pulp and paper industries (forest chips, wood meal and shavings), where GX and AGX comprise 25-35% of the biomass as well as annual crops (straw, stalks, husk, hulls, bran, etc.), which consist of 25-50% AX, AGX, GAX, and CHX [4]. New results were reported for xylans isolated from flax fiber [16,68], abaca fiber [69], wheat straw [70,71], sugar beet pulp [21,72], sugarcane bagasse [73], rice straw [74], wheat bran [35,75], and jute bast fiber [18]. Recently, about 39% hemicelluloses were extracted from vetiver grasses [76]. 

Mechanical sugarcane harvesting, 23 446 Mechanical syneresis, 22 56 Mechanical testing, of acrylic fibers,... 

The approach "select favorable raw material has a major impact on the selection of pretreatment processes. For example, the poplar responds splendidly to many pretreatments that fail with Douglas fir or pine-based materials (I). Specific tissues and cells of a given biomass raw material will respond quite differently. For example, the rind fiber of sugarcane bagasse behaves quite differently from the pith fiber (11)- In woody species, the selection of tissues low in bark and extractives is an important factor in the ease or resistance to cellulose hydrolysis. Before embarking on development of processes for hydrolysis of a biomass resource, it is highly desirable to exercise discretion with respect to the choice of raw materials at both the species and tissue levels. This idea is all the more important in an initial choice of species and pretreatment process. 

Recent studies have proven ethanol to be an ideal liquid fuel for transportation and renewable lignocellulosic biomass to be an attractive feedstock for ethanol fuel production by fermentation (1,2). The major fermentable sugars from hydrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass, such as rice and wheat straw, sugarcane bagasse, corn stover, corn fiber, softwood, hardwood, and grasses, are D-glucose and D-xylose except that softwood... 

Tjebbes, J., Utilization of Fiber and Other Nonsugar Products from Sugarbeet, in Chemistry and Processing of Sugarbeet and Sugarcane, M. A. Clarke and M. A. Godshall (Eds.), Elsevier, Amsterdam, pp. 139-145, 1988. 

Sinks T, Hartle R, Boeniger M, et al. 1994. Exposure to biogenic silica fibers and respiratory health in Hawaii sugarcane workers. J Occup Med 36 1329-1334. 

U.S. Pat. No. 6,983,571 [73] discloses a composite roofing panel comprising polyethylene, polypropylene, or a combination thereof in an amount of 20-40% by weight, and natural plant fiber in an amount of 40-75%, selected from the group consisting of wood flour, sugarcane bagasse, hemp, coconut coir, jute, kenaf, sisal, flax, coir pith, rice hulls, and cotton. 

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