Abstract
Degumming is the dominant method to isolate cellulosic fibers in the textile industry. High content of lignin is the principle obstacle in bast-fibers degumming. In order to remove lignin efficiently, the treatment using steam explosion coupled with Fenton oxidation was conducted on kenaf bast in this study. The influence and mechanism of the combined treatment of steam explosion and Fenton oxidation were studied. Fiber microstructure, composition proportion and distribution, cellulose Segal crystallinity and polymerization as well as residual lignin structure were analyzed. The results showed that the pretreatment of steam explosion could sufficiently extract most of the hemicellulose from kenaf bast. Also, the Fenton oxidation followed by alkaline boiling could effectively remove the lignin from the fiber, especially from the fiber surface. The refined dry fibers produced only remained 8.82% of hemicellulose and 9.36% of lignin. And the whole treatment process didn’t change the cellulose crystalline structure but could gradually degrade hemicellulose, lignin and other amorphous gummy matter as well as disordered areas in cellulose, leading to the increase of fiber Segal crystallinity from 62.02 to 70.12%. Part of cellulose was damaged with the increase of degumming intensity, resulting in the decrease of the polymerization degree of cellulose. Meanwhile, the structure of residual lignin changed during the degumming stages of steam explosion, Fenton oxidation and alkaline boiling. All the results revealed that the treatment of combined steam explosion and Fenton oxidation is significantly effectual for isolating bast-fibers.
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This work was supported by the key research and development program of the Shandong Province (2016ZDJS08A04 and 2016GSF117008), the Program for Scientific Research Innovation Team in the Colleges,Universities of the Shandong Province and the Research on Application program for Postdoctoral of Qingdao (2016011), the National Science Foundation of China (51706044), the Natural Science Foundation of the Jiangsu of China (BK20170666), and the Recruitment Program for Young Professionals in China.
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Song, Y., Jiang, W., Zhang, Y. et al. Isolation and characterization of cellulosic fibers from kenaf bast using steam explosion and Fenton oxidation treatment. Cellulose 25, 4979–4992 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-018-1916-y
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