Cellulose swollen

Several cellulose esters (qv) are prepared commercially. Cellulose xanthate [9032-37-5] is made by reaction of cellulose swollen in 8.5—12% sodium hydroxide solution (alkaU cellulose [9081-58-7J) with carbon disulfide and is soluble in the alkaline solution in which it is made. When such a solution, termed viscose, is introduced into an acid bath, the cellulose xanthate decomposes to regenerate cellulose as rayon fibers or cellophane sheets (see Fibers, REGENERATED CELLULOSICS). 

Is the hydration of guar gum a true hydration or is it similar to cellulose swollen in water ... 

Steeping. Sheet, roU, or suitably milled flock pulp is metered into a pulper along with vigorously stirred 18% sodium hydroxide solution at 50°C. The resulting slurry, containing about 5% finely dispersed pulp, passes to a buffer tank from which it is metered to a slurry press that sieves out the swollen fiber and returns the pressings soda for concentration correction and reuse. The cellulose reacts with the soda as a complex alcohol to form the sodium salt or alk-ceU. 

Of samples swollen with ethylene diamine, the graft yield at a 50 1 liquor ratio increases as the concentration of ethylene diamine increases. This is due to the increase of decrystallization of swollen samples, which helps the penetration velocity of the chemicals through the cellulosic chains. Graftability of the samples treated with 100% ethylene diamine is lower that of the sample treated with 75%. This is due to the dissolution of low DP chains and some of the hemicelluloses, which is detectable by the increase in DP of the sample teated with 100% ethylene diamine. 

Thus in this system, in addition to the usual requirements, the separator has the task of delaying penetration for as long as possible. A membrane would be regarded as perfect which lets hydroxyl ions pass, but not the larger zincate ions. This requirements is best met by regenerated cellulose ( cellophane ) [10,11], which in swollen condition shows such ion-selective properties but at the same time is also chemically very sensitive and allows only a limited number of cycles the protective effects of additional fleeces of polyamide or polypropylene have already been taken into account. 

A large number of SAHs described in the literature combine synthetic and natural macromolecules in the network structure. The natural components are usually starch, cellulose, and their derivatives. It is assumed that introduction of rigid chains can improve mechanical properties (strength, elasticity) of SAH in the swollen state. Radical graft polymerization is one of the ways to obtain such SAH. 

The membrane is critically important in osomometry. Selection of a membrane involves reconciliation of high permeability toward the solvent with virtual impermeability to the smallest polymer molecules present in the sample. Membranes of cellulose are most widely used. Commercially Regenerated cellulose film is a common source. The undried gel cellophane film is often preferred, but the dry film may be swollen in water (or in aqueous solutions of caustic or zinc chloride ) to satisfactory porosity. Useful cellulose membranes may also be prepared by denitration of nitrocellulose films/ and special advantages have been claimed for bacterial cellulose films. The water in the swollen membrane in any case may be replaced by a succession of miscible organic solvents ending with the one in which osmotic measurements are to be made. Membranes of varying porosity may be... 

With column B (1 = 66 cm, internal q> 2.8 cm filled with 135 g microcrystalline cellulose triacetate 43p-53n swollen in 95% ethanol dead volume V0 120 ml maximum allowed external pressure ca. 780Torr 250ml/h theoretical number of plates N = 320), racemic (67) could be partially resolved too 5S). It is interesting to note that a better resolution is obtained at lower temperatures (see Table 7). 

E Doelker. Water-swollen cellulose derivatives in pharmacy. In NA Peppas, ed. Hydrogels in Medicine and Pharmacy, Vol. II Polymers. Boca Raton, FL CRC Press, 1987, pp 115-160. 

Cotton linters or wood pulp, usually in the form of sheets, is steeped in strong alkali (18-50%). The swollen sheets are then pressed to force out most of the excess alkali solution. This alkali cellulose is then shredded, and aged if low viscosity is desired. The aging process is the one followed in the viscose industry and is fully explained in any discussion of that process. More alkali may be introduced during the shredding, either as a concentrated solution or as solid alkali.18 The alkali... 

HV Alginate/ 1% Cellulose Sulfate 3% Polymethylene-co-guanidine/ 1% Calcium Chloride NT Smooth and Swollen, Distinct Wall 1/1... 

Amorphous cellulose, so defined, was reported for two simple but noteworthy modifications of cotton linters. First, linters which had been swollen with cold 10% sodium hydroxide, washed, and dried by solvent exchange prior to thallation and methylation, showed an amorphous content as high as 27 %. Secondly, unswollen linters appeared to contain only 0.25 to 0.50% of amorphous cellulose. Similarly, swollen ramie appeared to contain 18% of amorphous cellulose unswollen ramie, 0.25%. 

Cellulosic fibers contain a partly crystalline cellulose phase as the main constituent. The grafting reactions can usually occur only with the amorphous or disordered cellulose. Only highly swollen cellulose with an expanded lattice may react throughout the ordered regions. 

Cellobiohydrolase I (CBH I, 1,4-jS-D-glucan-cellobiohydrolase, E.C. 3.2.1.91) is the main protein (ca. 60%) of the cellulase complex produced by T. reesei strains. CBH I hydrolyses crystalline cellulose, acid swollen cellulose and 4-methylumbelliferyl-cellodex-trins by cleaving off the terminal cellobiose unit from the non reducing end of the chain. It operates with retention of configuration in the reaction products 19,20. The abundance of this enzyme and its stability has facihtated its purification to homogeneity... 

When ions permeate through cellulose acetate their transport pathways will tend to follow the regions where water is most concentrated. Thus they will meet and interact with the dissociated, fixed carboxylate ions. The concentrations of ions absorbed from salt solutions by swollen cellulose acetate are small for reasons connected with the low dielectric constant of the latter (2). The electro-chemical potentials of ions undergoing transport may therefore be influenced significantly by the presence of the fixed charges. Such influences are familiar with normal ion-exchange membranes. 

On account of the relatively low water regain of cellulose acetate, the molal concentration of ionic groups in the swollen material exceeds Smmolal. This is comparable to the concentration of 300 ppm sodium chloride, a typical reverse osmosis product solution. Our homogeneous membranes are believed to be very similar to the active layer of an asymmetric membrane as developed by Loeb and Sourirajan. It is evident therefore that the concentration of fixed charges in the membrane is sufficient to exercise a significant Donnan exclusion of co-ions on the downstream side of the membranes in a reverse osmosis plant. 

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