Identification of Efficient Bioprocessing of Banana Pseudostem Waste Biomass for Sustainable Fibers in the Textile Industry

Modernization and urbanization impulse the thirst for sustainable and biodegradable fibers for textile applications. The desire for sustainable natural fibers could be gruntled by practising banana fibers in textile industries. The pseudostem linchpin of banana fibers is renowned for incredible durability, biodegradability, spinning quality, fineness, and tensile strength. Textile processing of banana fiber necessitates the removal of the hemicellulosic substance. Neglect of hemicellulosic substances is usually done by chemical degumming, which is hazardous. The major concern of the research is the degumming of banana fibers by an eco-friendly enzymatic method. In this investigation, the degumming of banana fibers has experimented with hemicellulose degrading enzymes such as pectinases, xylanases, and laccases to understand the practical difficulties of biological degumming technology. The enzymatic degummed banana fibers are compared with chemical and microbial degumming. The characterization and quality analysis of degummed fibers infer that banana fibers could be efficiently degummed by the combination of xylanase and pectinase enzyme. The tensile strength, crystallinity and surface morphology studies provokes the efficiency of enzymatic degumming. The degummed banana fiber has special applications in the fabrication, cutlery application, and textile industries.