Table 1 Characteristics of rice straw, wheat straw and bagasse12.

From: Feasibility of substituting old corrugated carton pulp with thermal alkali and enzyme pretreated semichemical mechanical rice straw pulp

Materials

Fiber length (mm)

Fiber wide (μm)

Cellulose (%)

Hemicellulose (%)

Lignin (%)

Ash (%)

Silica (%)

Rice straw

1.41

8

28–36

23–28

12–16

15–20

9–14

Wheat straw

1.48

13

29–35

26–32

16–21

4–9

3–7

Bagasse

1.70

20

32–44

27–32

19–24

1.5–5

0.7–3

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