Mior Ahmad Khushairi, Mohd Zahari and Nur Falia Syazana Manja, Farid and Hidayah, Ariffin and Mohd Rahimi, Zakaria Mamat and Mohd Ali, Hassan (2015) Non-Solvent Pretreatment of Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) for Improved Bio-Based Crotonic Acid Production. RSC Advances, 5 (42). pp. 33546-33553. ISSN 2046-2069. (Published)
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Abstract
In this study, high purity bio-based crotonic acid was obtained by non-solvent pretreatment of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate), PHB prior to pyrolysis. PHB was produced by Cupriavidus necator KCTC 2649 utilizing heat-treated oil palm frond juice followed by mild alkaline treatment with 0.05 M NaOH. It was found that NaOH-treated PHB was highly converted to its dehydrated monomer to give bio-based crotonic acid with 89% purity; 16% higher than that produced from chloroform-treated PHB. It is believed that pretreatment of PHB with low concentration NaOH assisted in high thermal conversion of PHB into crotonic acid by producing crotonyl chain-end and Na-binding carboxyl terminal end, of which both are the accelerator for ß-chain scission of PHB into biocrotonic acid. Initial molar mass of PHB also played a role in biocrotonic acid production. Overall, improved biocrotonic acid production with high purity biocrotonic acid is an advantage for industrial production of crotonic acid from renewable resource.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | T Technology > TP Chemical technology |
| Faculty/Division: | Faculty of Chemical & Natural Resources Engineering |
| Depositing User: | Mrs. Neng Sury Sulaiman |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Apr 2015 03:54 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Feb 2018 05:21 |
| URI: | http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/8967 |
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