Characteristics of Eucheuma cottonii waste from East Malaysia: physical, thermal and chemical composition

Jumaidin, Ridhwan and Sapuan, S. M. and Jawaid, Mohamad and Ishak, M. R. and Sahari, Japar (2017) Characteristics of Eucheuma cottonii waste from East Malaysia: physical, thermal and chemical composition. European Journal of Phycology, 52 (2). pp. 200-207. ISSN 0967-0262

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Abstract

The aim of this paper was to examine the characteristics of Eucheuma cottonii waste in order to analyse its potential as renewable material. The morphology of Eucheuma cottonii (raw and wastes) was investigated through scanning electron microscopy (SEM), the thermal behaviour through thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) and the physical properties through FT-IR, XRD, gas pycnometer, particle size analyser, water absorption and moisture content analysis. The chemical compositions were determined by using acid detergent fibre (ADF), neutral detergent fibre (NDF) and acid detergent lignin (ADL) analysis. It was found that Eucheuma cottonii wastes have better thermal stability, higher crude fibre content, lower moisture content and similar density to the raw Eucheuma cottonii, which suggests that these biomass wastes have good potential as renewable filler material.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Biomass waste; Eucheuma cottonii; Kappaphycus alvarezii; marine red algae; Rhodophyta; seaweed
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering Technology > Department of Manufacturing Engineering Technology
Depositing User:	ENGR RIDHWAN JUMAIDIN
Date Deposited:	25 Oct 2017 02:13
Last Modified:	06 Sep 2021 15:00
URI:	http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/19898
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