Oil palm (Elaeis guineensis) trunk as a resource of starch and other sugars

• Main Authors: H'ng, Paik San, Wong, Lih Jiun, Chin, Kit Ling, Tor, Ee Sang, Tan, Shu Ei, Tey, Beng Ti, Maminski, Mariuz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Asian Network for Scientific Information 2011
• Online Access: http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23135/1/Oil%20palm%20%28Elaeis%20guineensis%29%20trunk%20as%20a%20resource%20of%20starch%20and%20other%20sugars.pdf; http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/23135/; http://scialert.net/abstract/?doi=jas.2011.3053.3057
• Institution: Universiti Putra Malaysia

Large quantities of oil palm trunks are available annually during the replanting activities when the oil palm tree passed their economic age, on an average after 25 years are replace with young trees. Basically the oil palm trunks contains about 18- 21% of lignin, 65-80% of holocellulose (a-cellulos...