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Feng Shen1, Shuang Sun1, Jirui Yang1
1Agro-Environmental Protection Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, No. 31, Fukang Road, Nankai District, Tianjin 300191, China.
Abstract:
A key problem in the conversion of cellulose into chemicals and fuels is the low product yield from cellulose due to its robust structure. In this work, for the first time, cellulose was pretreated with coupling of liquid nitrogen and ball milling (LN-BM) for cellulose hydrolysis. After the LN-BM treatment, the glucose yield from cellulose by HCl in water increased by almost 2 times and yield of formic acid catalyzed by H2SO4-NaVO3 was more than 3-fold that obtained from untreated cellulose. The yields were also much higher than that from the individually ball-milled cellulose. The structure variation of cellulose indicated that reduction of both crystallinity index and molecular weight contributed to improving the conversion efficiency, but the former was the dominant factor. The combination of liquid nitrogen and ball milling developed in this work is an effective and environment-friendly approach for cellulose pretreatment.
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