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Hydrolysis of Cellulose to Glucose Using Carbon Catalysts

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High-yielding one-pot production of glucose from cellulose has been achieved using an alkali-activated carbon K26 as a catalyst bearing weak acid sites. The hydrolysis of solid cellulose by solid catalyst is limited due to low physical contact between the substrate and catalyst, but a new ball-milling pretreatment, ball-milling cellulose and carbon together (named mix-milling), has drastically improved the hydrolysis rate. As a result, 90 % yield and 97 % selectivity of water-soluble glucans have been obtained by K26 at 453 K for 20 min. Model reactions and kinetic studies have shown that the mix-milling pretreatment selectively accelerates solid-solid reaction (cellulose to water-soluble oligosaccharides), but does not liquid-solid reaction (soluble oligosaccharides to glucose). Hence, a trace amount of HCl (0.012 wt%) is used to depolymerize oligosaccharides to glucose and as high as 88 % yield of glucose with 90 % selectivity has been achieved. This reaction system is also effective for the hydrolysis of cellulose/hemicellulose in bagasse kraft pulp to hexoses/pentoses.

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Yabushita, M. (2016). Hydrolysis of Cellulose to Glucose Using Carbon Catalysts. In: A Study on Catalytic Conversion of Non-Food Biomass into Chemicals. Springer Theses. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0332-5_2

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