BTBioTwin/Clone

Water hyacinth fibre pipeline

Eichhornia crassipes harvested from infested waterways, retted enzymatically and refined into technical fibre plus a nanocellulose side stream.

Technical fibre

975.14 kg

per 14-day cycle

Tensile strength

271.6 MPa

crystallinity 64%

Young's modulus

6.04 GPa

derived from tensile model

Water remediated

1040 m³

invasive biomass removal

Gross margin

$-377.06

revenue $3022.94

Nanocellulose

214.53 kg

high-value side stream

Mass balance

  1. 01Mechanical harvest
    40,000 kg wet

    40 t / cycle

  2. 02Solar drying
    3,200 kg DM

    92% moisture removed

  3. 03Enzymatic retting
    2,272 kg

    71% yield

  4. 04Cellulose fraction
    1,317.76 kg

    58% of DM

  5. 05Alkali extraction & combing
    975.14 kg fibre

    74% recovery

  6. 06Nanocellulose side stream
    214.53 kg CNF

    22% of technical fibre

Model notes

  • Tensile model: 3.4·cellulose% + 2.1·crystallinity − 60 (MPa), calibrated against bast-type lignocellulosic fibre.
  • Nanocellulose side stream fixed at 22% of technical fibre via TEMPO oxidation route.
  • Remediation credit: 26 m³ of waterway cleared per tonne of wet biomass removed.