Prospects of rice straw as a raw material for paper making

D Kaur, NK Bhardwaj, RK Lohchab - Waste Management, 2017 - Elsevier
Pulp and paper mills are indispensable for any nation as far as the growth of the nation is
concerned. Due to fast growth in population, urbanization and industrialization, the demand …

Bio-ethanol from lignocellulose: status, perspectives and challenges in Malaysia

CS Goh, KT Tan, KT Lee, S Bhatia - Bioresource technology, 2010 - Elsevier
The present study reveals the perspective and challenges of bio-ethanol production from
lignocellulosic materials in Malaysia. Malaysia has a large quantity of lignocellulosic …

Non-wood fibers as raw material for pulp and paper industry

ES Abd El-Sayed, M El-Sakhawy… - Nordic Pulp & Paper …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Pulp and paper industry in the world have been growing fast. As a result, there has been a
massive request for pulp and paper raw materials. The raw materials used in papermaking …

Sorption and desorption characteristics for the removal of a toxic dye, methylene blue from aqueous solution by a low cost agricultural by-product

F Kallel, F Chaari, F Bouaziz, F Bettaieb… - Journal of Molecular …, 2016 - Elsevier
The efficacy of garlic straw (GS) prepared from agricultural waste was investigated in this
study as a novel adsorbent for the elimination of dye molecules. Removal of methylene blue …

Highly pure amorphous silica nano-disks from rice straw

P Lu, YL Hsieh - Powder technology, 2012 - Elsevier
White ash, containing majority of SiO2 with trace amounts of Al2O3, CaO, MgO, K2O, P2O5,
etc., was successfully produced by heating rice straw at 10° C/min and holding at 250, 325 …

[HTML][HTML] Chemical modification of cellulose extracted from sugarcane bagasse: Preparation of hydroxyethyl cellulose

ES Abdel-Halim - Arabian Journal of Chemistry, 2014 - Elsevier
Cellulose was extracted from sugarcane bagasse by alkaline extraction with sodium
hydroxide followed by delignification/bleaching using sodium chlorite …

Selected properties of particleboard panels manufactured from rice straws of different geometries

X Li, Z Cai, JE Winandy, AH Basta - Bioresource technology, 2010 - Elsevier
The objective is to evaluate the primary mechanical and physical properties of particleboard
made from hammer-milled rice straw particles of six different categories and two types of …

Life cycle assessment of rice straw-based power generation in Malaysia

SM Shafie, HH Masjuki, TMI Mahlia - Energy, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper presents an application of LCA (Life Cycle Assessment) with a view to analyzing
the environment aspects of rice straw-based power generation in Malaysia. It also compares …

Removal of dyes from aqueous solutions by straw based adsorbents: Batch and column studies

W Zhang, H Yan, H Li, Z Jiang, L Dong, X Kan… - Chemical Engineering …, 2011 - Elsevier
In this paper, the wheat straw materials have been simply modified by carboxymethylation to
prepare a kind of new adsorbent. The adsorption of methylene blue (MB) from aqueous …

A study on pulping of rice straw and impact of incorporation of chlorine dioxide during bleaching on pulp properties and effluents characteristics

D Kaur, NK Bhardwaj, RK Lohchab - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2018 - Elsevier
World is facing challenges to reduce global environmental issues including waste
management, green house gas emissions, pollution, deforestation and depletion of non …