Sugarcane Bagasse Research Paper

Preparation and characterization of oxide glass from sugar cane waste
I.Kashif*, A. Ratep
*Physics Department, Faculty of Science, AL-Azhar University, Nasr City, 11884 Cairo, Egypt
Physics Department, Faculty of Girls, Ain Shams University, Heliopolis, Cairo, Egypt

The main attention of the article deals with the taking out of silica from natural supply such as sugarcane bagasse. These waste materials in large quantities can produce a critical environmental problem. Hence, there is a need to adopt suitable plan to condense the waste. In the present study, all the waste materials are subjected to humidity removal with heating at 200 oC and sintered at 900 °C for 7 h. The obtained powders were examined and described by FT-IR and XRD analysis.

Since the natural sugarcane bagasse is degraded very slowly by micro-organisms, the treatment step may be useful for enhanced substrate utilization. Evidently, additional research on the treatment of bagasse is required to improve components yield and cellulose digestibility to the extent which would make its use economically viable. Similarly, although many efforts have been made on sugarcane bagasse hydrolysis using pre-treatment methods as well as enzymatic saccharification, its effective conversion into bioethanol is an area which needs further inputs in terms of research and development.
Production a silica as a glass former from sugar cane bagasse heat treated at 700 and 900 OC for 7h.
Figure 1 shows the heat treated suger cane at 900 OC for 7h , from it can be observed that the sharp peak that indicate the crystalline peak represent the presence of two phases (tridymite in the structure of Anorthic and crystobalite in the structure of tetragonal) as it sured in analysis shows in figure 2.
Figure 3 shows the Infrared spectrum for sugar cane bagasse heat treated at 700 and 900 OC for 7hrs. From figure 3, it can be observed that the FTIR spectrum of suger sugar cane bagasse is containing many bands . These bands are symptomatic of the general disorder in the silicate network mainly due to awide distribution of Qn units (poly-merization in

The absorption broad band in range between 1300 and 1700 cm-1 may be assigned to B – O stretching vibration in two groups BO3 and BO4; also it may be assigned to B – O – Si [15-19]. The broad band in range from 760 to 1160 cm-1was due to stretching vibration of Si–O–Si; also it may be attributed to the contribution of B–O–B stretching vibrations [18]. The band at 1241 cm-1 can be overlap with the components of the doubly degenerate antisymmetric stretching vibrations ν3 of the O-B-O bonds [17, 20, 21]. The bending vibration of Si–O–Si species appears at 440 cm-1 [22]. The band at 700 cm-1 may be also due to B–O–B bond-bending between two trigonal boron atoms vibration groups [21, 23, 24] or is assigned to bending vibrations of Si-O-B bridges as well as to the metaborate [17, 25]. The fact that all the mentioned bands are broad confirms the vitreous nature of the studied