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Comparison of hot-water extraction and steam treatment for production of high purity-grade dissolving pulp from green bamboo

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The performance of hot-water extraction (HWE) and steam treatment (ST), followed by kraft pulping were compared for production of high purity-grade dissolving pulp from green bamboo. With the same prehydrolysis intensity (represented by the P-factor), the fractionation efficiency of HWE is far lower than that of ST. Because of lower removal of non-cellulosic components, the solid residue from HWE (even at approximately double the prehydrolysis intensity, P-factor = 1,379) required more active alkali (AA) during kraft pulping to obtain a cellulose purity equivalent to that achieved by the ST (P-factor = 756)-kraft process. To reach equivalent hemicellulose removal, HWE required more severe intensity than ST. However, FTIR and SEM characterizations of solid residue confirmed that intensified HWE resulted in significant lignin condensation. Antagonistic effects of hemicellulose removal and lignin condensation extent on subsequent kraft pulping were therefore more apparent in HWE than that in ST. Under the same kraft pulping conditions, lignin condensation from a severely intensified HWE process (P-factor = 2,020) caused greater cellulose yield and viscosity loss than that found for ST. Finally, at a given residual pentosan or lignin content, the cellulose yields from all HWE-kraft pulps were about 3 % lower than those from ST-kraft pulps. Consequently, based on an optimally setup chlorine dioxide bleaching stage, a cellulosic pulp with alpha-cellulose content of 97.6 % and viscosity of 927 mL/g was successfully produced from a ST-kraft pulp (P-factor = 756, AA = 19 %).

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Funding from National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31300495), Ministry of Education of China (No. 20123515120018), Fujian Provincial Department of Education (No. JK2012015) and Department of Science and Technology (No. 2013J05041) are gratefully acknowledged. The authors also thank Key Laboratory of biofuels at Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy, Chinese Academy of Sciences for sample characterization based on Open Fundations (No. CASKLB201308). We sincerely appreciate the input from Dr. Q. Yang (University of Wisconsin-Madison, UW) and Dr. S. Li (UW, present at KDN Biotech Group, China), who offered valuable suggestions regarding the revision of this paper.

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    Xiaolin Luo, Jing Liu, Liulian Huang & Lihui Chen

  2. Key Laboratory of Biofuel, Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Qingdao, 266101, China

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Luo, X., Liu, J., Wang, H. et al. Comparison of hot-water extraction and steam treatment for production of high purity-grade dissolving pulp from green bamboo. Cellulose 21, 1445–1457 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-014-0234-2

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