Chemistry, Vol 9, No 2 (2016)

The influence of conditions of birch wood peroxide catalytic delignification on the yield and composition of cellulosic products

Olga Yatsenkova, Irina Sudakova, Andrei Skripnikov, Boris Kuznetsov

Abstract


 

The yield and composition of cellulosic products obtained from birch wood by peroxide catalytic delignification, integrated with an acidic prehydrolysis of wood and alkali treatment of cellulosic product were compared. Catalysts H2SO4 and TiO2 were used in peroxide delignification of birch wood.

The maximum yield of cellulosic product (66% mass.) was obtained by wood delignification in the medium "hydrogen peroxide – acetic acid – water – catalyst TiO2" at 100°C. This cellulosic product contains 72.3% mass. of cellulose, 20.2% mass. of hemicelluloses and 2.9% mass. of lignin. Cellulosic products, containing 93,1–95,5 % mass. of cellulose,  1.7-2.5 % mass. of hemicelluloses and less than 1% mass. of lignin are obtained in two ways. One of them includes the additional treatment of cellulosic product with 18% NaOH at 100°C, and the other – prehydrolysis of wood with 3% H2SO4 at 100°C and alkali treatment of the cellulosic product. From cellulosic products with the low content of lignin and hemicelluloses the glucose hydrolysates with a low concentration of impurities, inhibiting the enzymatic synthesis of bioethanol can be obtained.