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Hemicellulose transportation from different tissues of corn stalk to alkaline hydrogen peroxide solution

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During hemicellulose alkali extraction from corn stalk (CS), focus has historically been on describing the effect of some key process parameters whereas less attention has been paid to the composition and structure differences of the CS raw material. This paper aimed to analyze the composition and structure of the different parts of CS and provide models of hemicellulose transportation. The results showed that the dissolution of hemicellulose was mainly influenced by not only the alkali-soluble hemicellulose content but also the density of tissue. In addition, the modelling results strongly reflected that all the dissolution processes of hemicellulose from the three parts belonged to physical mass transfer-dominated process.

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Acknowledgments

This work is co-supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.21967014, 21767015 and 21808209) and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (Grant Nos. 2018YFC1902105, 2018YFC1902102 and 2018YFC1902101).

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  1. BiomassChem Group, Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China

    Liang He, Shibo Yang, Dong Chen, Lincai Peng & Yuxin Liu

  2. The Higher Educational Key Laboratory for Phosphorus Chemical Engineering of Yunnan Province, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China

    Liang He

  3. Faculty of Environmental Science and Engineering, Kunming University of Science and Technology, Kunming, 650500, Yunnan, China

    Qingqing Guan

  4. School of Environmental and Natural Resources, Zhejiang University of Science and Technology, Hangzhou, 310023, Zhejiang, China

    Jing Li

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He, L., Yang, S., Chen, D. et al. Hemicellulose transportation from different tissues of corn stalk to alkaline hydrogen peroxide solution. Cellulose 27, 4255–4269 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-020-03088-8

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