Effects of Particle Size, Stem Component and Genotype on Absorbency of Kenaf (Hibiscus Cannabinus L.) Grown in Nigeria for Oil-Spill Clean-Up - Agricultural Sciences

AS > Vol.7 No.9, September 2016

Volume 7, Issue 9 (September 2016)

ISSN Print: 2156-8553 ISSN Online: 2156-8561

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Effects of Particle Size, Stem Component and Genotype on Absorbency of Kenaf (Hibiscus Cannabinus L.) Grown in Nigeria for Oil-Spill Clean-Up ()

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DOI: 10.4236/as.2016.79058 1,610 Downloads 2,946 Views Citations

Author(s)

Morufat Oloruntoyin Balogun¹, AbdulGaniy Olayinka Raji^2*

Affiliation(s)

¹Department of Crop Protection and Environmental Biology, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.
²Department of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering, University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria.

ABSTRACT

The efficacies of different products made from different parts of the stem of different varieties of kenaf grown in Nigeria as oil absorbents were tested. Particle sizes, genotypes and whether mixed or sole stem core or bast differed among the treatments. The fibre component sank in water, and so was not buoyant; the core was partially buoyant while the mixed fibre and core was completely buoyant. Sorption capacity was the highest in the ground whole stem (8.16 g oil/g sorbent), which also retained (6.31 g oil/g sorbent) the highest quantity of oil. Sorption and retention of oil were the lowest in the fibre (1.66 and 0.69 g oil/g sorbent, respectively). After the first use, only the ground stem can be used to re-absorb up to 1.97 g oil/g sorbent of used sorbent. A mixture of genotypes was more absorbent than a single genotype. The implications of these findings in absorbency research are discussed.

KEYWORDS

Kenaf, Absorbent, Fibre, Genotype, Bast, Sorption

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Oloruntoyin Balogun, M. and Olayinka Raji, A. (2016) Effects of Particle Size, Stem Component and Genotype on Absorbency of Kenaf (Hibiscus Cannabinus L.) Grown in Nigeria for Oil-Spill Clean-Up. Agricultural Sciences, 7, 621-629. doi: 10.4236/as.2016.79058.

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