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Photohydrolysis of cotton cellulose for producing bioethanol
Author(s) -
Hong Kyung Hwa,
Sun Gang
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
journal of applied polymer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.575
H-Index - 166
eISSN - 1097-4628
pISSN - 0021-8995
DOI - 10.1002/app.39019
Subject(s) - cellulose , textile , hypochlorite , pulp and paper industry , glycosidic bond , sodium hypochlorite , chemistry , biomass (ecology) , materials science , chemical engineering , polymer chemistry , waste management , organic chemistry , composite material , engineering , enzyme , oceanography , geology
Almost one third of the waste textiles produced from manufacturing clothing and other textile products are made of cotton. Hence, a huge amount of waste cotton is produced every year. Therefore, we aimed to develop an efficient way for conversion of cotton from waste textile into some beneficial resource in an environmentally safe manner. In this study, it was suggested a novel way to break down cotton cellulose into source of biomass glucose through a mild hypochlorite oxidation process (ca., 0.5 wt % of NaClO and 0.0125 wt % NaBr) under UV‐irradiation. And, the UV light‐NaBr‐NaClO oxidation system was seen to induce exo‐cleavage on β(1 → 4)‐glycosidic bonds in cellulose polymer. © 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Appl. Polym. Sci., 2013