Progress of Research in Cashew Industry

✍ Scribed by Ramaiah, M. Sundara

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1976
• Weight: 563 KB
• Volume: 78
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0931-5985
• DOI: 10.1002/lipi.19760781204

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Cashewnut shell liquid and its distillation products cardanol and CNSL‐residue have become very important raw materials because of their versatile uses in surface coatings, plastics, rubber, synthetic chemicals and drugs, synthetic wood and other fields. The multisided applications of CNSL are due to the presence of the phenolic group in its structure, combined with an unsaturated long side chain. Research work is being conducted in various countries on this naturally occurring raw material since the middle of the 19th century. An attempt is made herein to review the progress of research work conducted till to‐day on these products.