In the present work cellulose powder wasextracted from olive industry solid waste and then con-verted into cellulose acetate. The cellulose powder wasextracted from olive industry solid waste by kraft pulpingprocess and multistep bleaching p sequences. An elementalchlorine-free chemical bleaching sequence chlorine diox-ide (D)-cold caustic extraction (E)-hypochlorite (H)-hydrogen peroxide (P) was used. Cellulose powder wasobtained in about 35 % yield. The extracted cellulose andcellulose acetate made from thereof were extensivelycharacterized using Fourier transform infrared spectros-copy, electron microscopy sciences, gel-permeation chro-matography/high-performance liquid chromatography, andviscometry. Our key finding in this study was that oliveindustry solid waste is a valuable source of cellulosepowder and its derivatives. This is important, since ourresults show how lignocellulosic agricultural wastes couldbe utilized and converted into cellulose products with highvalue

العنوان

Journal of Wood Science

الناشر

Springer

بلد الناشر

ألمانيا

Indexing

Scopus

معامل التأثير

1,446

نوع المنشور

إلكتروني فقط

المجلد

61

السنة

2014

الصفحات

45-52