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When old corrugated cardboard (OCC) is returned to the paper mill for repulping and reuse, the starch, which is added to the paper surface as a reinforcement agent, is dissolved into the pulping wastewater. Most of the OCC pulping wastewater is recycled to save precious water resources; however, during the water recycling process, the accumulation of dissolved starch stimulates microbial reproduction, which causes poor water quality and putrid odor. This problem seriously affects the stability of the papermaking process and product quality. In this study, phosphomolybdic acid (H3PMo12O40, abbreviated as PMo12) was utilized to catalyze the waste starch present in papermaking wastewater to monosaccharides, realizing the resource utilization of waste starch. The results showed that the optimized yield of total reducing sugar (78.68 wt%) and glycolic acid (12.83 wt%) was achieved at 145 °C with 30 wt% PMo12 at pH 2, which is equivalent to 91.51 wt% starch recovered from wastewater for resource utilization. In addition, the regeneration of the reduced PMo12 was realized by applying a potential of 1 V for 2 h. Overall, this study has theoretical significance and potential application value for resource utilization of waste starch in OCC pulping process and cleaner management of OCC waste paper.
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The authors thank Zhina Lian (Nanjing Forestry University) for the HPLC tests and Rui Liu (Nanjing IPE Institute of Green Manufacturing Industry) for the linguistic assistance.
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This study received support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.3177030417) and the Major Science and Technology Plan Project of Jiangsu Province (BE2018129).
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Yongzhen Qiao: conceptualization, formal analysis, methodology, validation, investigation, writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. Weisheng Yang: investigation, methodology, and formal analysis. Xiu Wang: language. Liang Jiao: resources. Huiyang Bian: language, resources. Yiqin Yang: methodology, resources. Shumei Wang: resources. Hongqi Dai: conceptualization, supervision, funding acquisition.
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Qiao, Y., Yang, W., Wang, X. et al. Phosphomolybdic acid-catalyzed oxidation of waste starch: a new strategy for handling the OCC pulping wastewater. Environ Sci Pollut Res 29, 39702–39711 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-18940-6
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