Optimization of Microwave Pretreatment of Sugarcane Baggase

Lignocellulosic materials are plant materials such as agricultural residues forest products (hard and soft wood) and crops (switch grass Salix). The materials are not only cheap but are also readily available all year with little or no interference with food production chain. However strict policies need to be developed for the management agricultural produce. This will reduce competition between biofuels (biodiesel bioethanol and biogas) chemicals and food (Kumar Barrett Delwiche and Stroeve 2009; Guo Fang Xu and Smith 2012). Over the years biomass derived fuels has been inadequately investigated due to factors that affect pretreatments and hydrolysis of biomass industrially. Pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass play major process in the production of bioethanol. It involves the breakdown of the rigid structure of lignocellulose for the release of lignin hemicelluloses and cellulosic polymers within the biomass.