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Enhanced hydrolysis of mechanically pretreated cellulose in water/CO2 system

The aim of this work was to study promotion of ball milling and CO2 assistance on cellulose hydrolysis kinetics in water medium. Kinetic behaviors were analyzed based on first-order and shrinking core models. The results showed that cellulose hydrolysis is enhanced by ball milling and CO2 assistance. Ball milling reduced crystallinity and particle size of cellulose, resulting in high cellulose conversion, while hydrolysis promoted by CO2 assistance was weaker. Double-layer hydrolysis was observed for ball-milled cellulose, and rate constant in active layer is higher. Based on double-layer shrinking core model (DL-SCM), activation energy of cellulose conversion decreased from 73.6 to 39.8?kJ/mol when ball milling and CO2 assistance were applied. Hydrolysis active layer was about 0.9??m, representing activated thickness of ball-milled cellulose. Hydrolysis promotion by crystallinity and particle size reduction was distinguished via DL-SCM, and crystal evolution possesses greater improvement than particle size decrease on hydrolysis of ball-milled cellulose.

» Author: Kejing Wu, Guangrong Feng, Yingying Liu, Changjun Liu, Xingyilong Zhang, Shijie Liu, Bin Liang, Houfang Lu

» Reference: Bioresource Technology, Volume 261

» Publication Date: 01/08/2018

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