Study of the chemical composition of different pipeline varieties of jute fibres

Chemical composition of different pipeline varieties of jute (Corchorus capsularis and C. olitorius) fibres has been studied. The promising varieties which have been taken were C-718, C-2005, C- 2193, C-2035 and OM-1 and experiment was carried out to know their moisture content (%), cellulose content (%), hemicellulose content (%), lignin content (%), ash content (%) and fat content (%) in three different parts of plant- top, middle and bottom. Moisture content was found highest (12.6855 %) in bottom part of C-2035 variety and lowest (8.24 %) in top part of C-2005 variety. In bottom part of C-718, cellulose content was found lowest (58.24 %) and highest was found in the top part of C-2035 variety. Hemicellulose was found highest (23.73 %) in top part of OM-1 and lowest (16.39 %) in middle part of C-718. In case of lignin content, it was observed that 17.98 % was found in bottom part of C-718 which seem to be highest and lowest (13.61 %) was found in top part of C-2193 variety. In the top and bottom part of C-2005, ash content was found lowest (0.112 %) and highest (0.995 %) respectively. Fat content was highest (2.172 %) in OM-1 variety and lowest (1.099 %) in C-2193.