Gluconic acid : Fructose
: Synthetic Zeolites : Cellulosic
waste fractionation : Other processes
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Chemically modified cellulose has a wide range of industrial and food applications from thickening and gelling in foods, to additives for high performance concrete.
To produce valuable components from waste biomass, fractionation and purification of the cellulose must take place first.
Australian BioRefining has demonstrated the potential for a feasible process for fractionating the bagasse waste from the sugar milling process, allowing recovery of several valuable products —
Typically cellulosic fractionation processes result in very impure product streams.
ABR's goal is to focus specifically on obtaining relatively pure xylose and cellulose, to allow the use of these as feedstocks for cellulose derivatisation, and xylitol production.