Cellulose, hemi-cellulose and lignin contents were higher in DRFP (13.31%, 24.13% and 23.36%, respectively) than BEFB (8.3%, 21.23% and 19.06%, respectively) (Table 1.). Although the values are closer to the reports on other agro-wastes like silk cotton shell, oil palm fibre, oil palm nut shell and cashew nut shell (40-45% cellulose, 20-40% hemicellulose and 17-30% lignin, respectively) [43] the cellulose content observed in this study for the biomass samples were lower than in previous reports [54].
During the thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA) (Fig. 1), four weight loss stages were observed in BEFB and three stages in the DRFP. In the first stage (