Biorefinery in a pulp mill: simultaneous production of cellulosic fibers from Eucalyptus globulus by soda-anthraquinone cooking and surface-active agents
Abstract
Industrial Eucalyptus globulus wood chips were submitted to different autohydrolysis conditions followed by kraft cooking and soda-anthraquinone cooking. The autohydrolyzed wood chips were much easier to delignify than the control wood chips. Soda-anthraquinone cooking could be performed at a cooking temperature that was 20°C lower than that for the kraft cooking on control wood chips. Furthermore, the active alkali could be reduced. The resulting unbleached pulps reacted as well to oxygen delignification as the control pulps and could be further bleached to 90% ISO brightness with a D(EP)D sequence. The autohydrolysis liquors were investigated for their suitability as a source for the synthesis of alkylpolyxylosides (APX). These surface-active agents are synthesized through the reaction between the saccharides of the autohydrolysates and a fatty alcohol, with the former being the hydrophilic and the latter being the hydrophobic part of the molecule. The impact of the substances detected in autohydrolysates on the APX synthesis was studied. It was demonstrated that lignin dissolved during autohydrolysis should at least partially be removed before the production of APX.
The authors would like to thank Marie-José Villette (Fibre Excellence), Sébastien Kerverdo, André Benattar, Jérôme Guilbot, and Stéphane Dessilla (SEPPIC) for their collaboration and precious advices during the project. The French Research Agency (ANR) is also thanked for the funding of the SUCROL project. The funding for this project was also provided by a grant from la Region Rhône-Alpes.
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Articles in the same Issue
- Masthead
- Masthead
- Original Articles
- Biorefinery in a pulp mill: simultaneous production of cellulosic fibers from Eucalyptus globulus by soda-anthraquinone cooking and surface-active agents
- Thermomechanical pulping of novel Brazilian Eucalyptus hybrids
- Contribution of xylan to the brightness development and stability in the final ECF bleaching of eucalypt (Eucalyptus globulus Labill.) kraft pulp
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- Optimization of sulfuric acid-assisted glycerol pretreatment of sugarcane bagasse
- Laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) of lignin and lignin model compounds in Raman spectroscopy
- Polyoxometalate (POM)-aided modification of lignin from wheat straw biorefinery
- Salting-out and salting-in experiments with lignosulfonates (LSs)
- Determination of the diffusion of monovalent cations into wood under isothermal conditions based on LiCl impregnation of Norway spruce
- Modification of hemicelluloses with polycarboxylic acids
- Tailoring the effect of antibacterial polyelectrolyte multilayers by choice of cellulosic fiber substrate
- Elaboration of multilayered thin films based on cellulose nanocrystals and cationic xylans: application to xylanase activity detection
- Characterization of the pore structure of nanoporous activated carbons produced from wood waste
- Sorption properties of hydrothermally modified wood and data evaluation based on the concept of Hansen solubility parameter (HSP)
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