Author(s)

Tchotang Theodore¹, Carlos Mozer^1,2, Pondi Joseph^1,2, Jeme Njie², Nfor Clins^1,2, Ze Eric Parfait^1,2, Souck Joseph Loic^1,2

¹Laboratory of Engineering Civil and Mechanical, Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, University of Yaoundé I, Ya-oundé, Cameroon.
²Local Materials Promotion Authority (MIPROMALO), Yaoundé, Cameroon.

The paper reported a comparative study of the methods of extraction of vegetable fibres encountered in the literature; three main ones was chose, namely: combing, retting with pre-treatment of the bagasse in salt and distilled water, and Chemical extraction at three concentration levels of soda (2N, 1N, 0.1N) with pre-treatment of bagasse with salt water and distilled water. After extracting the fibres using these methods, it appeared that the natural methods (retting and combing) have a higher yield of around 70% compared to the chemical method which has a low yield of around 40%. The fibres obtained by the chemical extraction method (1N-BPD) had the best characteristics.

Bagasse, Characterization, Elaboration, Extraction, Fibre

Theodore, T. , Mozer, C. , Joseph, P. , Njie, J. , Clins, N. , Parfait, Z. and Joseph Loic, S. (2020) Extraction and Characterization of Bagasse Fibres from Sugar Cane (Saccharum officinarum) for Incorporation into a Mortar. Open Journal of Applied Sciences, 10, 521-533. doi: 10.4236/ojapps.2020.108036.