Lynne Wong's PhD thesis

Figure 3.1. Glucose and fructose and their condensation product sucrose 69
(Chen and Chou, 1993).
Figure 3.2. Cane stalk (van Dillewijn, 1952). 71
Figure 3.3. Cross-section of stem (Van Dillewijn, 1952). 71
Figure 3.4. Four cane varieties chosen for fibre extraction. 74
Figure 3.5. Fibre-pith separator (Moodley, 1991). 77
Figure 3.6. Jeffco wet disintegrator. 78
Figure 3.7. Custom-built fibre-pith separator. 79
Figure 3.8. Industrial drying oven. 81
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Figure 3.9. Removal of cane nodes. 84
Figure 3.10. Dry leaf sample before and after cutter-grinding. 84
Figure 3.11.
Washing of green leaf sample after cutter-grinding and retting.
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Figure 3.12. Dry leaf cake washed free from Brix (top) and three fractions 84
after wet-sieving.
Figure 3.13. Removal of green leaves. 84
Figure 3.14. Green leaf sample before and after cutter-grinding. 84
Figure 3.15.
Green leaf cake washed free from Brix (top) and three fractions
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after wet-sieving.
Figure 3.16. Cane top sample cut into 10-cm lengths and then in thin strips 85
before being treated in a wet disintegrator.
Figure 3.17.
Cane stalk with rind (top), with rind removed and cut into thin85
sticks (left) and rind (right).
Figure 3.18. Stalk sample before and after cutter-grinding. 85
Figure 3.19.
Stalk cake washed free from Brix (top) and three fractions after
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wet-sieving.
Figure 3.20. Rind sample before and after cutter-grinding. 85
Figure 3.21.
Figure 3.22.
Rind cake washed free from Brix (top) and three fractions after
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wet-sieving.
Parr model 1241 adiabatic oxygen bomb calorimeter with pellet
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press on the left.
Figure 3.23. FTIR spectra of stalk fibre dried in oven at 70 °C for various 108
period of time.
Figure 3.24. Fibres of sugar cane components observed under scanning 109
electron microscope.
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