Affiliation:
1. Laboratory of Bioproduct Chemistry, Center of Innovative and Applied Bioprocessing (CIAB), Sector-81 (Knowledge City), Mohali-140306, Punjab, India
Abstract
Carbonaceous materials are proven to be vital in day-to-day life as well as in advanced science
and technology applications. Rice straw, a secondary agricultural lignocellulosic biomass, has
drawn great attention for the production of value-added carbonaceous material. Because, it can provide
an alternative economic, greener and sustainable resource of carbon to non-renewable fossil fuelbased
precursors while controlling the worsening situation of environmental pollution due to improper
disposal and stubble burning. In this review, recent developments in the production of carbonaceous
materials from rice straw are presented. Biochar and activated carbon were reported to be the prime
carbonaceous materials prepared from the rice straw. Thus, pyrogenic preparation of biochar and the
influence of its pyrolysis temperature to the yield, composition, surface area, porosity and morphology
are preliminarily discussed. This is followed by a detailed discussion on the preparation of activated
carbon with an emphasis on the influencing reaction factors for improving the characteristic properties
of the activated carbons. Additionally, the major characterization techniques dealing with determining
the surface area and porosity (BET analyzer) and microstructure (secondary electron microscope
(SEM) and transmission electron microscope (TEM)) for both the carbonaceous materials are also discussed.
Finally, major applications of both the carbonaceous materials are briefly reviewed. Thus, the
present review clearly highlights the usefulness of agricultural lignocellulosic waste rice straw for the
conversion of waste to value-added carbonaceous materials.
Publisher
Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.
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