date:Dec 11, 2019
in extracting cellulose to test its suitability as a packaging alternative.
The pseudostem is 90% water, so the solid material ends up reducing down to about 10%, Arcot said. We bring the pseudostem into the lab and chop it into pieces, dry it at very low temperatures in a drying oven, and then mill it into a very fine powder.
Stenzel added: We then take this powder and wash it with a very soft chemical treatment. This isolates what we call nano-cellulose which is a material of high value wit