摘要 |
The present invention is a soybean hull fiber from which polyphenolics or lignin has been removed, having cellulose and hemicellulose, wherein the improvement is that the cellulose and hemicellulose are dissociated as a delignified soybean hull fiber. A method of delignifying the soybean hull fiber, has the steps of: (a) exposing the soybean hull fiber to a liquid having water and oxidizer in a non-basic solution thereby delignifying the soybean hull fiber into a delignified soybean hull fiber; and (b) separating the delignified soybean hull fiber from the liquid. The delignified soybean hull fiber is useful for adding to cellulose in papermaking and for generating other food, biochemical, and enzyme products. The method of the present invention may be extended to add an enzyme to the delignified soybean hull fiber for making cellulose derived compounds. |