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@article{189434,
        author = {Rounak R. Atram and Shaikh Shaista Sharmuddin and Nainika Rajesh Dedhia},
        title = {Torrefaction: Transforming Sugarcane Biomass into High-Quality Carbon for Supercapacitor},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2025},
        volume = {12},
        number = {7},
        pages = {6421-6426},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=189434},
        abstract = {India is one of the largest sugarcane cultivators, with an estimated production of 419.25 million tonnes. With more than 500 sugar mills, India generates 91 million tons of sugarcane bagasse (SB) annually. Therefore, sugarcane waste can be recycled as valuable products. It is rich in organic carbon, making it a potential raw material for carbon production. Biomass-derived carbon has a wide range of applications in energy storage devices. In our research, sugarcane bagasse was procured from vendors, cleaned, and dried to remove any moisture. At higher temperatures, the material was torrefied in a controlled oxygen environment, resulting in the formation of carbon in the form of Sugarcane Bagasse Carbon (SBC). The torrefied carbon was further subjected to polymerization processes to form a binary composite of Sugarcane Bagasse Carbon/PANI (SBC/PANI), which increased its specific capacitance and energy density, making it more suitable for wide applications such as supercapacitors, photodegradation, metal adsorbents, and solar cells. The morphology of the composite material was studied by SEM. Electrochemical results revealed SBC/PANI achieved highest specific capacitance of 188 Fg-1 at current density of 0.5 Ag-1 resulting in higher energy density of 7.89 Wh Kg-1 at power density of 69 W kg-1.},
        keywords = {Biomass, Carbonization, Lignocellulosic, Polymerization, Sugarcane, Torrefaction.},
        month = {December},
        }