Cellulose, hydrolysis products

Figure 4 Comparative analysis of glucose and gluconic acid production from cellulose demonstrating inhibition of cellulolytic enzymes by cellulose hydrolysis products...

Processes for Triacetate. There are both batch and continuous process for triacetate. Many of the considerations and support faciUties for producing acetate apply to triacetate however, no acetyl hydrolysis is required. In the batch triacetate sulfuric acid process, however, a sulfate hydrolysis step (or desulfonation) is necessary. This is carried out by slow addition of a dilute aqueous acetic acid solution containing sodium or magnesium acetate (44,45) or triethanolamine (46) to neutrali2e the Hberated sulfuric acid. The cellulose triacetate product has a combined acetic acid content of 61.5%. 

With respect to the action of the enzyme itself, a loss of weight on account of cellulose hydrolysis, as well as loss in strength properties, occurs. Therefore, control of concentrations, temperature, and other processing conditions is important to achieve a product having the proper balance of properties. 

When you hydrolyze cellulose, what are the hydrolysis products ... 

The acid-oxidant method is based on the idea that the hydrolysis of cellulose might be continuously determined from the rate of carbon dioxide evolution. Since, under controlled conditions, the rate of evolution of carbon dioxide is proportional to glucose concentration, it should be possible to follow the course of cellulose hydrolysis by means of the rate of carbon dioxide evolution provided that the sole final product of hydrolysis of cellulose is glucose. The latter assumption appears to be justified where the sample is reasonably pure. 

Hydrolytic Degradation of Cellulose and Separation of the Hydrolysis Products by Chromatography... 

Conversion of polymers and biomass to chemical intermediates and monomers by using subcritical and supercritical water as the reaction solvent is probable. Reactions of cellulose in supercritical water are rapid (< 50 ms) and proceed to 100% conversion with no char formation. This shows a remarkable increase in hydrolysis products and lower pyrolysis products when compared with reactions in subcritical water. There is a jump in the reaction rate of cellulose at the critical temperature of water. If the methods used for cellulose are applied to synthetic polymers, such as PET, nylon or others, high liquid yields can be achieved although the reactions require about 10 min for complete conversion. The reason is the heterogeneous nature of the reaction system (Arai, 1998). 

In addition to the variations in the LHC composition that occur from species to species, each species has its extractives, which include resins and waxes. These constituents are capable of interfering with cellulose hydrolysis because of their hydrophobic nature. Tannins and other highly reactive materials are constituents of some woody species. When LHC is obtained from nonwoody (herbaceous) species, the range of interfering constituents increases greatly. Sugars, starches, dextran, carotenoids, and many isoprenoids are to be found. Operators of a cellulose hydrolysis process that uses municipal solid waste as its biomass resource may experience seasonal variations in composition and chance inclusion of crankcase oil and other products that inhibit enzymes or kill yeast. 

Cellulose hydrolysis and its product, glucose, play a central role in the conversion of renewable resources to foods, fuel, and chemical feedstocks. This is illustrated in Figure 1. Cheap glucose would not only find a demand in the food sweetener market but could serve as a substrate... 

Both pilot-plant and plant-scale processes for cellulose hydrolysis or digestion by acids, enzymes, and microorganisms have been built (I, 7,15,27). Acid and enzyme processes usually have as their objective the production of a sugar syrup, while the microbial process usually results in microbial protein for animal feed. Figure 10 is illustrative of a microbial process (29) that has been developed to convert the unused cellulosic material in manure to recycle feed. Similar processes have been developed... 

As further evidence, we demonstrated by paper chromatography that hydrolysis products from cellooligosaccharides by Ex-1 are Gi and G2 from G3, and Gi, G2, and G3 from G5, but only G2 from G4, Ge, CMC, cellodextrine, and insoluble cellulose such as Avicel, swollen cellulose, absorbent cotton, and filter paper (Figures 13 and 14). However, G3 was formed from G6 when Ex-1 was incubated with a mixture of G6 and Gi. There is no indication that G6 was split by this cellulase into G3 plus G3, but rather that G2 produced from G6 was transferred immediately to Gi to form G3. The results are shown in Figure 15. 

Figure 14. Paper chromatogram of the hydrolysis products from higher cellulose substrates by Ex-1. Developed by the descending technique for 96 hr at room temperature on Whatman No. 1 paper, using 1-butanol pyridine water (6 4 3, v/v) as a solvent (S) standard, (Gt) glucose, (Gz) cellobiose, (Gs) cellotriose, (Gu) cellotetraose, (G5) cellopentaose, (G6) cellohexaose final enzyme concentration 2.82 X 10 2%.

Specific hydrolysis products obtained from both cellulose and cello-dextrins by cellobiohydrolase and endoglucanases were analyzed by low pressure liquid chromatography using water as the sole eluent (25,40). 

The following gives a brief compilation of procedures to determine hexenuronic acids in cellulosic pulp samples. The common methods are based on hydrolysis of HexA moieties from pulp, either enzymatically or chemically, with subsequent quantification of the hydrolysis products either directly or after chemical conversion into UV active compounds. A comparison of these three methods is given by Tenkanen et al. [136]. For comparison rather than exact determination of HexA, e.g., during bleaching stages, the diffuse reflection UV VIS method can be applied [137]. A photoacoustic FTIR procedure based on chemometric analysis has been described as well [138]. In Table 3, the available methods to analyze HexA moieties in cellulosic material are summarized. 

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