Evaluation of Active Principles in Fiber Crops

• Grant number: 08/05384-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: November 01, 2008
• End date: October 31, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Engineering - Materials and Metallurgical Engineering - Nonmetallic Materials
• Principal Investigator: Alcides Lopes Leao
• Grantee: Joyce Suellen Coelho Pires
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agronômicas (FCA). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Botucatu. Botucatu , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The present research project aims evaluate the optimization utilizing crop fibers residues in the decortication process or even in the whole plant. The utilized methods will be efficient toward the extracction, identification, isolation, quantitative analysis, purification and commeecialization of active principles. WIth these results, it will be possible develop a methodology that result in a better income in the crop fiber producing producing chain, besides the fiber itself. The present project is part of a great effort of the LABORATORY toward the viability of the crop plants with a higher income not only in he fibers commercialization, which represents a small amount in relation to the total weight of the plant (about 4-6%), but in function of the active principles, eventually valuable that will allow the final price of the fibers be mor competitive in relation to the man-made competitors