Reaction Kinetics and Catalysis Letters, Vol.97, No.2, 295-300, 2009
Influence of UV pretreatment on the abies wood catalytic delignification in the medium "acetic acid-hydrogen peroxide-TiO2"
Some regularities of abies-wood oxidative delignification by acetic acid-hydrogen peroxide mixture under the action of suspended TiO2 catalyst and UV pretreatment of wood pulp were studied. The combined action of TiO2 catalyst and of UV-pretreatment of abies-wood allow to produce at optimal conditions of the delignification process the chemically pure cellulose containing no residual lignin. The major characteristics of cellulose product obtained from abies-wood correspond to the characteristics of microcrystalline cellulose.