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Changes of cellulose accessibility to cellulase due to fiber hornification and its impact on enzymatic viscosity control of dissolving pulp

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This study was to determine the effect of fiber hornification on the viscosity decrease of prehydrolysis kraft-based dissolving pulp using a commercial endoglucanase-rich cellulase. Three pulp samples, namely never-dried (ND), air-dried (AD) and oven-dried (OD), were used. The results showed that the enzymatic performance in the viscosity decrease was affected by the fiber history: the ND sample showed the strongest viscosity drop, followed by the AD sample, and the lowest was obtained from the OD sample. These results were explained by the concept of cellulose accessibility to cellulase (CAC), which decreased with the increasing degrees of hornification (DH) in the order of ND, AD and OD samples. The CAC of the samples and the cellulase adsorption on the samples were highly correlated to the DH, which consequently influenced the enzymatic treatment efficiency in viscosity control. The kinetics of the viscosity decrease during the cellulase treatment, showed an initial rapid phase, followed by a slow phase.

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The authors gratefully acknowledge the financial support from the Canada Research Chairs and NSERC CRD program, and the Tianjin Municipal Science and Technology Commission (Grant no. 12ZCZDGX01100). The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

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  1. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, Tianjin, 300457, China

    Chao Duan, Jianguo Li & Yonghao Ni

  2. Limerick Pulp and Paper Centre, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, E3B 5A3, Canada

    Chao Duan, Yunduo Long, Jianguo Li, Xiaojuan Ma & Yonghao Ni

  3. College of Material Engineering, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University, Fuzhou, 350002, China

    Xiaojuan Ma

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Duan, C., Long, Y., Li, J. et al. Changes of cellulose accessibility to cellulase due to fiber hornification and its impact on enzymatic viscosity control of dissolving pulp. Cellulose 22, 2729–2736 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-015-0636-9

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