Vol. 11, Special Issue 8 (2022)

Author(s):
Nikitha Modupalli and Dr. Venkatachalapathy Natarajan

Abstract:
The increase in the concept of circular economy in agricultural and allied processing fields has increase by several folds in recent years. Use of agricultural by-products to produce beneficial materials for practical bio-valorisation applications has been sought by several researchers. Rice bran wax, a secondary metabolite from rice processing, is a subsidiary product separated from rice bran oil during refining. Rice bran wax is a very beneficial product, and has good phytochemical composition that exerts antimicrobial effect. Rice bran wax is an abundantly available by-product, due to large production and processing of paddy and rice in south-Asia. The chemical characterization of rice bran wax using FT-IR has revealed its chemical composition and orientation of the compounds. The FT-IR spectrum revealed the chemical orientations like O-H, C-O, C=C, CO-O-CO, N-H etc. corresponding to the chemical constituents present in the wax. The information about these chemical constituents can help in expanding the valorisation methods foe utilizing rice bran wax to its full potential.