Lignocellulosic biomass as potential for Bioethylene production to protect the Environment from hazardous outputs of the Source material

Vol-3 | Issue-01 | January 2018 | Published Online: 11 January 2018    PDF ( 174 KB )
Author(s)
Snehlata Hada 1; Ashutosh Shukla 2

1Research Scholar, SVVV, Indore / Department of Chemical Science, Christian Eminent College, Indore (India)

2Department of Chemistry, SVVV, Indore (India)

Abstract

Parthenium hysterophorus which is an annual herb is a lignocelluloses biomass. Lignocelluloses refer to plant dry stuff (biomass). It is the most copiously accessible raw material on the Earth for the production of bio-ethanol. It is composed of carbohydrate polymers (cellulose, hemicelluloses), and an aromatic polymer (lignin). These carbohydrate polymers contain various sugar monomers (six and five carbon sugars) and they are tightly bound to lignin. Lignocelluloses biomass serve as a raw material for production of ethanol examples include switch grass (Panicum virgatum) and Elephant grass, P.hysterophorus etc. Parthenium hysterophorus is an annual herb that uncompromisingly colonises disturbed sites. Inhabitant to southern United States, Mexico and Central and South America, it has been by accident introduced into several countries and has become a serious agricultural weed in parts of Australia, Asia, Africa and the Pacific Islands, also India.It grows on any type of earth and in a wide range of habitats. It affects the production of crops, animals, human and animal health, and biodiversity. P. hysterophorus being Lignocellulosic mass can be utlize as a potential for the production of ethanol and then ethylene.

Keywords
Parthenium hysterophorus, Polymers, Ethanol, Ethylene
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