Waste-to-Wealth Applications of Cassava–A Review Study of Industrial and Agricultural Applications
A. R. Adetunji
Department of Engineering, Prototype Engineering Development Institute (PEDI), Ilesa, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, (NASENI), Nigeria and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria
D. A. Isadare
Department of Engineering, Prototype Engineering Development Institute (PEDI), Ilesa, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, (NASENI), Nigeria and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria
K. J. Akinluwade *
Department of Engineering, Prototype Engineering Development Institute (PEDI), Ilesa, National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure, (NASENI), Nigeria and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU), Ile-Ife, Nigeria
O. O. Adewoye
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja, Nigeria
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
Cassava plant and its products have long been used as food and feed but lately as industrial ingredients. The present study unveils various agricultural and industrial applications of cassava especially the waste cyanogenic component which hitherto has constituted a huge agricultural waste. The study reviewed current engineering values which cassava cyanide has created in the industrial sector. Some very exciting ongoing research studies on engineering applications of the cassava cyanogenic glucoside are also highlighted.
Keywords: Cyanogenic glucoside, cassava, cyanide, pack-cyaniding, linamarin, waste