Research Article
Potential of Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Classification of Different Delignificant Pre-Treatments on Banana Rachis
Elena Tamburini1*, Christian Fabricio Larenas Uria2, Giovanni Dedenaro1, Stefania Costa1, Maria Gabriella Marchetti1 and Paola Pedrini11Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, University of Ferrara, Italy
2Universidad Politécnica Salesiana, Quito, Ecuador
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- Elena Tamburini
Department of Life Science and Biotechnology
University of Ferrara, Italy
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Received: March 02, 2016; Accepted: March 18, 2016; Published: March 25, 2016
Citation: Tamburini E, Uria CFL, Dedenaro G, Costa S, Marchetti G, et al. (2016) Potential of Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Classification of Different Delignificant Pre-Treatments on Banana Rachis. J Anal Bioanal Tech 7:311. doi:10.4172/analytical-bioanalytical-techniques.1000311
Copyright: © 2016 Tamburini E, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Delignificant pretreatments are fundamental in lignocellulosic materials preprocessing to remove lignin from biomass. Current wet chemical methods are time-consuming, labor-intensive and use hazardous reagents. Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS) provides rapid and non-destructive analysis, and has shown promising results. Spectra collection (8000-4000 cm-1), combined with chemometric analysis based on Cluster Analysis and Principal Component Analysis, has allowed to perform qualitative study of banana rachis, a lignocellulosic residue of agricultural production.
