The Components Of Sugar Beet

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One of the main sources of global sugar production and one third of the world sugar production is based on sugar beet. After the extraction of sucrose, about 50 kg sugar beet pulp (on a dry weight basis) per tonne sugar beet processed is left as a by-product [77]. SBP is composed mainly of cellulose (20–30%), pectin (26–40%), pentozan (24%), protein (5%), and lignin (10%) [78]. The major components of SBP is the pectic substances which are complex heteropoly saccharides containing galacturonic acid, arabinose, galactose and rhamnose as the major sugar constituents [79]. Chemically, pectins appear as poly uronides, i.e. straight chains of a few hundred molecules of a-D-galacturonic acid linked by 1–4-glycosidic bounds. Pectins are not pure polyuronides, however; the polysaccharide also contains 1–2 linked a-L- rhamnose molecules (1–4%). Rhamnose residues are covalently bound to L- arabinose and o-galactose molecules (10–15%). In most pectin, some of the galacturonic acids are methyl esterified [80, 81]. Pectic substances contain poly galacturonic acids that carry carboxyl functions and they are known to strongly bind metal cations in aqueous solution and consequently exhibit good capacities to retain metal ions. Because this residue is very sheep …show more content…

Batch study was conducted in order to determine the optimal initial pH and it was selected to be 4. It was found that the Langmuir isotherm model presented satisfactory fit with the experimental data. The maximum adsorption capacity onto SSBP-PA after 6 hour at 25oC could reach 204 and 192 mg/g for RB21 and RB5, respectively. The adsorption process of RB21 and RB5 onto SSBP-PA were

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