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ENGINEERS INDIA RESEARCH INSTITUTE
4/54, Roop Nagar, Delhi-110007 (India)
Phone: 9289151047, 9811437895, 9811151047
E-mail:
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Website: www.eiriindia.org
BAGASSE PULP MANUFACTURING (CAP: 50
TONS/DAY)
[EIRI/EDPR/4716] J.C.: 2936INR, 2936US$
The sugarcane bagasse is the main residue product of the Indian agricultural
industry. Sugarcane bagasse pulp is considered a fine raw material for
manufacturing paper and sustainable tableware products. The bagasse is a
fibrous waste left after the juice is squeezed out from the sugarcane by pressing it.
Generally, sugarcane bagasse is yellowish-gray to lemon-colored consisting of
lignin and cellulose fibers. Sugarcane bagasse is a mixture of hard fibers and soft
parenchyma i.e. bagasse pith. Bagasse is rich in cellulose content. The chemical
composition of sugarcane bagasse is majorly 50% cellulose, about 25%
hemicellulose, and about 25% lignin.
Bagasse is the by- product of the sugar industry and is also one kind of
papermaking fiber material. As the foundation of paper and pulp industry, fiber
materials include wood fiber and straw fiber. Except for the sugarcane bagasse,
there are some other materials like wheat straw, reed, bamboo, and kenaf, etc.
Among all kinds of fiber materials, bagasse is low-cost and inexhaustible to make
paper pulp. The bleached bagasse pulp can be mixed to certain quantity of macro
fiber and used to manufacture various high-grade cultural paper and living paper,
such as bodystock paper, copy paper, two-side offset paper, sanitary tissue,
napkin and etc. With the proper manufacturing process, the bagasse pulp also
can be applied to make coated art base paper or newspaper.