Research Article

High-Yield Alpha-Cellulose from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches by Optimizing Thermochemical Delignification Processes for Use as Microcrystalline Cellulose

Table 2

Experimental design for optimizing cellulose isolation from OPEFB.

StdRunFactor 1Factor 2
X 1: bleaching time (h)X 2: concentration of NaClO2 (%)

9123
623.413
10323
4434.50
8525.12
560.593
12723
3814.50
1911.50
71020.88
131123
111223
21331.5