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Preparation of Pure Cellulose Substrate from Low-Grade Woods by Autohydrolysis  

Cho, Nam-Seok (School of Forest Resources, Chungbuk National University)
Kim, Byoung-Ro (School of Forest Resources, Chungbuk National University)
Paik, Ki-Hyon (College of Natural Resources, Korea University)
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Journal of the Korean Wood Science and Technology / v.30, no.4, 2002 , pp. 8-16 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study was performed to produce the high reactive lignin zero substrates from autohydrolyzed wood resources. In chemical compositions of used raw-materials, there were significant differences between two species, Japanese larch (Larix leptolepis) and oak (Quercus mongolica) woods. Japanese larch contained 25 to 3.5 times higher amounts of extractives than oak wood, which is mainly derived from high content of arabinogalactan in Japanese larch wood. Oak wood has 5% lower lignin content and 3% higher holocellulose and pentosans than larch wood. Concerned to changes in wood components during autohydrolysis pretreatment at 22 kg/cm2 steaming pressure for 5~60 min, glucose content was constant during pretreatment, while hemicellulose and lignin were abruptly changed. Hemicellulose fraction was decreased significantly and lignin contents increased because of its condensation reaction with hemicellulose degradation products. The pH of hydrolyzates during pretreatment was decreased, reached upto pH 3 and since then leveled off. In the case of oak wood, same tendency was observed as in Japanese larch. Autohydrolysis followed by sodium chlorite and sulfite or bisulfite pretreatment was very effective in delignification of the substrates. In particular, two-stage delignification of autohydrolyzed woods with alkali and O2-alkali resulted in very low lignin content substrates, such as 0~0.2% lignin substrate.
Keywords
Autohydrolysis; High reactive substrate; Japanese larch; Oak; Delignification; Lignin-zero material;
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