Pretreatment of water soaked Oil Palm Frond (OPF) by electron beam irradiation and ionic liquid: article

Various methods such as physical, chemical, physicochemical and biology have been done for the pretreatment process of biomass to produce biofuel. This research is conducted to investigate the effect of combining the electron beam irradiation and ionic liquid pretreatment and to determine the composition of lignin, cellulose and hemicellulose. The method used in this research was referred to the Kappa number and Tappi method. For the lignin degradation, when the dose of the irradiation increases, the value of lignin degradation also increases. For the alpha cellulose, when the irradiation dose increases, the percentages of alpha cellulose also increases. It can be concluded that this research achieve the findings.