Browsing Faculty of Engineering by Subject "Alkaline treatment"

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Bio-oil production from sweet sorghum bagasse via liquefaction using alkaline solutions and identification of phenolic products

Sehume, Thabo Z.; Strydom, Christien A.; Bunt, John R.; Schobert, Harold H. (Springer, 2020)

The feasibility of converting biomass into bio-oil and the effect of an alkaline treatment during biomass liquefaction was studied. Sweet sorghum bagasse (SSB) was treated with NaOH concentrations of 0.5, 1.0, 3.0 and 6.0 ...