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The potential of different hemicelluloses extraction methods in conversion of environmentally friendly ECF and TCF bleached paper-grade bagasse soda pulp to dissolving-grade pulp

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Dissolving pulp as a purified chemical pulp with high cellulose content, is an important raw material for many applications such as cellulose derivatives and regenerated cellulose, hence paper-grade bagasse pulp as a cheap alternative non-wood raw material can be used to produce dissolving-grade pulp. In this work, the potential of ECF and TCF bleached paper-grade soda bagasse pulp in the production of dissolving pulp was studied. To find an effective method, bleaching sequences followed by the different hemicellulose extraction processes including CCE, xylanase treatment, IONCELL-P, combination of xylanase treatment and IONCELL-P were investigated. The unbleached bagasse pulp was subjected to the IONCELL-P process using mixtures of 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium acetate/water for the extraction of xylan from an initial of 30.5 to 7.0%. The ECF (ODEpQP1.5%) sequence resulted in the optimum bleached pulp in terms of physical and chemical properties and the consumption of bleaching chemicals, which was selected for subsequent treatments to remove xylan to produce dissolving pulp. In the IONCELL-P treatment of bleached pulp, the xylan content could even be reduced to 5.9% (80% removal) and in X-IONCELL-P to 3.3% (90% removal). All the extraction methods investigated in this study removed xylan with differences in the selectivity and efficiency successfully.

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Abbreviations

CCE:

Cold caustic extraction

CED:

Cupriethylenediamine

DBNH:

1,5-Diazabicyclo[4.3.0]non-5-enium

DMAc:

N,N-dimethylacetamide

DTR:

Dissolution-base torque reactivity

ECF:

Elemental chlorine-free

emim:

1-Ethyl-3-methylimidazolium

GPC:

Gel permeation chromatography

HCE:

Hot caustic extraction

IDR:

Initial dissolution rate

IL:

Ionic liquid

IONCELL-P:

IONCELL-Pulp, an ionic liquid treatment for hemicellulose extraction from pulp.

MMD:

Molar mass distribution

PDI:

Poly dispersity index

TCF:

Totally chlorine-free

X:

Xylanase enzymatic treatment

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The authors would like to thank Dr. Leena Pitkänen for her advice in evaluating the results of pulp molar mass distribution obtained from GPC analyses.

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  1. Department of Wood Science & Technology, Faculty of Natural Resources, University of Tehran, Karaj, Iran

    Kajal Moradian Gilan & Ali Abdulkhani

  2. Department of Paper Sciences and Engineering, Faculty of Wood and Paper Engineering, Gorgan University of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, Gorgan, Iran

    Sahab Hedjazi

  3. Department of Bioproducts and Biosystems, School of Chemical Engineering, Aalto University, Box 16300, 00076, Aalto, PO, Finland

    Huy Quang Lê & Herbert Sixta

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Kajal Moradian Gilan: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis, investigation, writing—original draft.

Sahab Hedjazi: conceptualization, methodology, validation, writing—review and editing, supervision.

Huy Quang Lê: methodology, formal analysis, writing—review and editing.

Ali Abdulkhani: conceptualization, methodology, formal analysis.

Herbert Sixta: conceptualization, validation, resources, writing—review and editing, supervision.

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Gilan, K.M., Hedjazi, S., Lê, H.Q. et al. The potential of different hemicelluloses extraction methods in conversion of environmentally friendly ECF and TCF bleached paper-grade bagasse soda pulp to dissolving-grade pulp. Biomass Conv. Bioref. (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13399-023-04979-z

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