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OPTIMIZATION OF PROCESS CONDITIONS FOR THE CATALYTIC CONVERSION OF MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE INTO SUGAR ALCOHOLS
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The scale of annual reproduction of cellulose-containing biomass in nature allows us to draw an unambiguous conclusion that cellulose is the only source of raw materials for the chemical and fuel industries, representing a real alternative to fossil resources and, first of all, oil. Cellulose is the main component of plant biomass. According to some estimates, almost half of the organic carbon in the biosphere is contained in cellulose. Hydrolytic hydrogenation is a special case of carbohydrate hydrogenation. With regard to cellulose, the essence of the process is to combine the processes of its hydrolysis and hydrogenation of the resulting glucose. Cellulose is a difficult-to-process substrate, which determines the -harsh- reaction conditions for its hydrolytic hydrogenation. In this regard, it is important to optimize the reaction conditions in order to increase the yield of the target products - sorbitol and mannitol. In this study, the reaction conditions for the conversion of microcrystalline cellulose in the presence of Ru-containing polymeric catalysts (temperature, pressure H2, time, substrate/catalyst ratio, reactor volume) were optimized. As a result, the maximum selectivity for sorbitol was 43.5 %, mannitol - 3.7 % with a cellulose conversion of 64 %. Also, based on the results of the study, a mathematical model was proposed to formally describe the kinetics of hydrogenation/hydrogenolysis of glucose.
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