Biocarbon from peanut hulls and their green composites with biobased poly(trimethylene terephthalate) (PTT).

ABSTRACT: There are millions of tons of post-food processing residues discarded annually. Currently, these waste materials are discarded to landfill, used as animal feed or incinerated. This suggests that there are potential uses for these materials in value-added applications. This work focuses on the characterization and valorization of peanut hulls through the generation of green composites. Peanut hulls were pyrolyzed at 500 °C and analyzed to discover their unique surface morphology and relatively low ash content. Raman spectral analysis determined I_D/I_G values of 0.74 for the samples, suggesting greater graphitic content than disordered carbon content. Such results were confirmed in X-ray diffraction analysis by the presence of (002) and (100) planes. Partially biobased e

SUBMITTER: Picard M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7039894 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature