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J.F. Kadla, H.-m. Chang, H. Jameel

The Reactions of Lignins with High Temperature Hydrogen Peroxide Part 2. The Oxidation of Kraft Lignin

A technical pine kraft lignin was subjected to alkaline hydrogen peroxide oxidation in the presence of DTMPA and molecular oxygen at various temperatures. In the presence of DTMPA the lignin was found to undergo increasing levels of oxidation and degradation with increasing temperature. At 110°C over 80% of the kraft lignin was degraded. Analyses of the degraded lignins indicated that both phenolic and nonphenolic lignin moieties were degraded. At 90°C the addition of molecular oxygen resulted in further lignin demethoxylation, but did not decrease the amount of phenolic hydroxyl groups or hydrogen peroxide consumed. In the absence of DTMPA the hydrogen peroxide was rapidly degraded, and accompanied by only minimal lignin oxidation.

Holzforschung, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0018-3830
Volume: 53, 05/1999
Pages: 277 - 284

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