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Rheology of Different Corncob Biomass Slurries for Hydrodynamic Cavitation Based Biomass Pretreatment Process

Volume : 104
Issue: Jul-sep
Pages: 279 - 281
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Abstract


Rheology properties of biomass slurry are considered essential for designing a bioreactor to understand the flow behaviour of materials inside the reactor. The biochemical composition of raw corncob samples used in this study include: 36 % of cellulose, 27.38% of hemicellulose and 17.60 % of lignin. Rheological measurements of corncob biomass slurrires at loadings of 2.50, 3.75 and 5.00 % indicated a non Newtonian behaviour, showing yield stress and shear thinning. Based on the results, it is concluded that, corncob biomass slurry loaded up to 5% could be well suited for hydrodynamic cavitation reactor used for pretreatment process.

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279 - 281
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© The Author(s), 2026. Published by Madras Agricultural Students' Union in Madras Agricultural Journal (MAJ). This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited by the user.

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Corncob biomass Slurry Rheology Hydrodynamic cavitaion Pre-treatment
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