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

Table 3

Content of water-extractive material, hemicellulose, cellulose, holocellulose, and lignin in OPEFB cellulose.

Treatments	Water extractive material (%)	Hemicellulose (%)	Cellulose (%)	Holocellulose (%)	Lignin (%)
C3T2	5.48	11.30	80.43	91.73	2.78
C3T0.59	6.20	7.32	84.79	92.11	1.69
C3T2	7.12	9.97	81.20	91.17	1.71
C3T3.41	8.24	14.20	75.85	90.05	1.70
C3T2	6.46	7.58	83.71	91.29	2.25
C4.5T1	7.41	10.83	80.06	90.89	1.71
C1.5T1	7.48	7.76	79.50	87.26	5.26
C5.12T2	8.20	11.67	78.86	88.53	1.26
C0.88T2	6.76	15.77	68.17	83.94	9.30
C4.5T3	8.45	8.17	81.69	89.86	1.69
C1.5T3	8.19	11.58	74.01	85.59	6.21
C3T2	9.40	10.54	77.78	88.32	2.28
C3T2	8.78	9.92	78.47	88.39	2.83