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

Title

Journal of Wood Science

Publisher

Springer

Publisher Country

Germany

Indexing

Scopus

Impact Factor

1.446

Publication Type

Online only

Volume

61

Year

2014

Pages

45-52