Extraction of hemicellulose from oil palm biomass using subcritical water extraction to produce value-added product or fine chemicals

• Main Authors: Jusoh, Noorshartika, Zakaria, Zuriati, Othman, Nor'Azizi, Sugiura, Norio, Goto, Masafumi, Mad Nordin, Mariam Firdhaus, Mohamad, Shaza Eva, Iwamoto, Koji, Yoneda, Kenichi, Shameli, Kamyar, Hara, Hirofumi
• Format: Conference or Workshop Item
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: TP Chemical technology
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61072/1/KojiIwamoto2015_ExtractionOfHemicelluloseFromOilPalmBiomass.pdf; http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/61072/
• Institution: Universiti Teknologi Malaysia

Renewable energy sources such as wind, hydro, solar, hydrogen, nuclear and biomass are various type of alternatives energy available to replace non-renewable fossil fuels. The total oil palm biomass produced by Malaysia alone is about 53.04 million tonnes (mt), which include 17.08 mt of empty fruit...