Obtaining of Oxycellulose from Cotton Fibers by Action of Various Oxidants

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20535/1810-0546.2016.3.65694

Keywords:

Cotton fiber, Hydrogen peroxide, Oxone, PINO, Oxycellulose, Carboxyl group

Abstract

Background. Development of production technologies of materials for various purposes of alternatives to crude oil and natural gas sources of raw material, in particular cellulose.

Objective. To determine the optimal values of technological parameters of cotton fiber oxidation by action of various oxidants – hydrogen peroxide, Oxone, PINO – on quality of oxycellulose.

Methods. Oxidation of mechanically chopped cotton fibers by solution of hydrogen peroxide, Oxone and PINO was performed with air bubbling  by the compressor through solution of cellulose in round-bottomed flask immersed in a water bath of the required temperature. The methods of experiment planning and optimization were used to determine the optimum process parameters.

Results. Studied oxidants for oxycellulose of cotton fibers to increase efficiency are in the following order: hydrogen peroxide – Oxone – PINO. The method of full factorial experiment was used to determine the adequate regression equations that describe the process of oxycellulose obtaining by action of Oxone and PINO, and the Gauss-Seidel method was used to determine the optimal values of technological parameters of oxycellulose obtaining. It is shown that oxidation of cotton fibers for optimal values of technological parameters allows getting oxycellulose with the content of carboxyl groups to 3 %.

Conclusions. The obtained oxycellulose can be used in medicine as a component of non-toxic, hemostatic, antimicrobial materials.

Author Biographies

Валерій Анатолійович Барбаш, NTUU KPI

Valerii A. Barbash,

PhD, associate professor, deputy prorector for research

Юлія Ярославівна Нікітюк, NTUU KPI

Yuliya Ya. Nikitiuk,

graduate student

Ірина Михайлівна Дейкун, NTUU KPI

Irina M. Deykun,

PhD, associete professor at the Department of ecology and technology of plant polimers

References

D. Klemm et al., “Nanocelluloses: a new family of nature-based materials”, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed., vol. 50, рр. 5438–5466, 2011.

M. Floor et al., “Preparation and calcium complexation of oxidized polysaccharides. II: Hydrogen peroxide as co-reactant in the chlorite oxidation of dialdehyde glucans”, Recueil des Travaux Chimiques des Pays-Bas, vol. 108, no. 10, pp. 323–394, 1989.

R.L. Stilwell et al., “Oxidized cellulose: chemistry, processing and medical applications”, Drug Target. Recov. HandbookBiodegr. Polym., vol. 7, pp. 291–306, 1997.

D.S. Zimnitsky et al., “Synthesis and characterization of oxidized cellulose”, J. Polymer Sc. Part A: Polymer Chem., vol. 42, no. 19, pp. 4785−4791, 2004.

DuPont™ Oxone® Monopersulfate Compound, General Technical Atributes, 2008, рр. 1–4.

L. Zhou et al., “Selective oxidation of cellulose catalyzed by NHPI/Co(OAc)2 using air as oxidant”, Cellulose, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 4059–4065, 2014.

G. Biliuta et al., “Mild oxidation of cellulose fibers using dioxygen as ultimate oxidizing agent”, Digest J. Nanomat. Biostructures, vol. 6, no. 1, pр. 291–297, 2011.

TAPPI Test Methods.Atlanta: Tappi Press, 2004.

J. Milanovich et al., “Strucrure and properties of TEMPO-oxidized cotton fibers”, Chem. Industry Chem. Eng. Quarterly, vol. 18, no. 3, pр. 473–481, 2012.

A.G. Bondar, An Experiment in the Optimization of the Processes of Chemical Technology. Kyiv, USSR: Vyshcha Shkola, 1980 (in Russian).

Published

2016-06-30