Yaa Investigation Inward Wet Characteristics Of Sugarcane Bagasse Fiber

INVESTIGATION IN MOISTURE CHARACTERISTICS OF BAGASSE

R. Prabakaran
Bachelor of Fashion Technology
Angel college of Engineering as well as Technology, Tiruppur, India
Email: srpraba66@gmail.com

Introduction:

Bagasse is the fibrous affair that remains afterwards sugarcane is crushed to extract their juice. Sugarcane bagasse 1 of the largest cellulose based agro industrial yesteryear products as well as fibrous residue left afterwards the sugarcane is crushed inwards the factories of the carbohydrate as well as alcohol industry. Now a twenty-four hours it is used every bit a biofuel as well as every bit a renewable resources inwards the manufacture of pulp as well as newspaper products as well as edifice material. Bagasse is every bit good used every bit a root of renewable ability generation as well as for the production of bio-based materials. It convey a mixture of difficult fiber, having high hygroscopicity, soil, wax, remainder sugars etc. the bagasse tin live made into soft boards ,medium density fiber boards or particle boards, every bit good every bit high density difficult boards using dry out (or) wet chemic processing. The components of bagasse are cellulose – 26% to 43% on dry out weight. Sugarcane bagasse a residue from the refining procedure of sugarcane. This production represents a corking morphological heterogeneity.

Bagasse
Bagasse is the fibrous affair that remains afterwards sugarcane stalks are crushed to extract their juice. It is dry out pulpy residue left afterwards the extraction of juice from carbohydrate cane.

Fig: Sugarcane bagasse

Compositions of bagasse

Bagasse is a heterogeneous cloth containing closed to xxx – xl percent of fiber. Bagasse comes from unlike parts of the cane stem comprising the exterior rind crushed amongst the inner pith. Long as well as fine fibers are located inwards the rind purpose of the stem as well as brusk fibers inwards the within purpose known every bit the pith. As bagasse is a mixture of both parts, the fibers convey uneven as well as uncontrolled lengths. However, because of its high fiber content as well as peculiarly because of its cellulose rate, bagasse tin live used to create sustainable fibers.

S.no	Item	Percentage %
1	Moisture	49.0
2	Soluble solids	02.3
3	Fiber	48.7

Table 1

Compositions of bagasse:

• Cellulose (%) 45-55
• Hemi cellulose (%) 20-25
• Lignin (%) 18-24
• Pectin (%) 0.6-0.8
• Ash (%) 1-4
• Extractives (%) 1.5-9

It shows the chemic composition of bagasse plant fibers, as well as their physical properties. It is noted that cellulose is the principal constituent of institute fibers followed yesteryear hemi-celluloses as well as lignin interchangeably as well as pectin respectively. Cellulose is every bit good the reinforcement for lignin, hemi cellulose as well as Pectin.

Bagasse fiber preparation:

Fig: Bagasse fiber procedure flowchart

Drying
The artificial drying procedure is done inwards heater for 24 hours at 60ºC temperature, where it is checked for possible anomalies, since to a higher house this temperature at that spot is H2O loss that could drive disequilibrium to its basic structural form. Immediately afterwards handling as well as drying it is prepared for particulate obtainment yesteryear cutting it to hateful length of half dozen cm.

Fig: Drying of Sugarcane bagasse

Moisture test
The samples amongst a minimum weight of 20g must live removed, their cast as well as dimensions are non important. However, they must non possess costless particles. Initially, the samples should live weighed as well as and hence placed inwards a heater at a temperature of (103±2) C until they accomplish a constant mass. Afterwards, it must cool to room temperature, weighed over again as well as the wet ratio calculated by

Equation:
H = mv-ms/ms*100

H = humidity (%);
ms = dry out majority (g);
mv = light-green or humid majority (g).

1. Determination wet find of bagasse
It is defined every bit the weight of H2O inwards a cloth expressed a per centum of the oven dry out weight of the material.

Let,
Oven dry out weight of a cloth = D
Weight of H2O inwards this cloth = westward

Moisture regain, R = W/D *100

2. Determination wet content of bagasse
Moisture content is defined every bit the weight of H2O inwards a cloth limited every bit a per centum of the full weight of the cloth

Moisture content, C = W/W+D*100
 
Sugarcane bagasse wet investigation report:

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