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Chemistry and Industry of Forest Products ›› 2014, Vol. 34 ›› Issue (2): 85-90.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0253-2417.2014.02.015

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Influences on the Effect of Pretreating Cellulose by Pretreatment Solvents

GUO Jing, XIE Piao, GUAN Fu-cheng, WANG Zhi-chao, ZHANG Cheng-jiao   

  1. Department of Textile and Materials Engineering, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian 116034, China
  • Received:2013-04-07 Online:2014-04-25 Published:2014-04-26

Abstract: Acetone(CH3COCH3)/NaOH, ethanol(EtOH)/NaOH and other chemical reagents systems were used for pre-treating cellulose. The R-10 value and water retention value (VWR) were measured to evaluate their impacts on polymerization degree and accessibility of cellulose. The cellulose pretreated under the optimal condition was analyzed by XRD and FT-IR to evaluate their impacts on the crystal structure, functional groups and hydrogen bonds. The results showed that NaOH/H2O2/H2O, ethylene glycol(EG)/H2O2/H2O, CH3COCH3/NaOH and EtOH/NaOH systems exhibited better performance on the cellulose than other chemical reagents systems. The crystallinities of the pretreated celluloses were decreased from 65.3% to 61.3%, 63.7% and 49.8% as treated by NaOH/H2O2/H2O, EG/H2O2/H2O and EtOH/NaOH systems, respectively. The percentages of intermolecular hydrogen bonds were declined to 58.7%, 58.2% and 50.3% from 61.5%, respectively, but no crystal form changes were observed. However, in contrast, the crystal type changed as the cellulose was treated by CH3COCH3/NaOH system, and its crystallinity and percentage of intermolecular hydrogen bonds were reduced by 18 percent point and 14.7 percent point, respectively.

Key words: cellulose, pretreatment, R-10 value, hydrogen bond, crystallinity

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