TY - JOUR
TI - Microwave heating: A potential pretreating method for bamboo fiber extraction
AU - Fu Jia-Jia
AU - Shen Shen
AU - Duan Jun-Lu
AU - Tang Chen
AU - Du Xiao-Ying
AU - Wang Hong-Bo
AU - Gao Wei-Dong
JN - Thermal Science
PY - 2017
VL - 21
IS - 4
SP - 1695
EP - 1699
PT - Article
AB - Microwave heating is proposed as a kind of pretreating methods for bamboo  fiber extraction. Effect of various processing parameters, e.g. microwave  initial-setting power, reaction temperature, irradiation time and bath ratio  (bamboo to water) on bamboo powders was studied. Analysis of chemical  components indicates that microwave-assisted extraction is a mild treating  method without obvious change of main constitutes of bamboo. The removal of  polysaccharide by microwave treating resulted in loosening the structure and  thus benefits hydrolysis of bamboo in subsequent.