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## Abstract The effect of particle size, alkali concentration, and temperature on the rate of extraction of pentosans and on the amount of pentosans extractable from birch wood meal has been studied. In general, a very rapid extraction of accessible pentosans is followed by a slow, almost negligible, diffusion of inaccessible pentosans. There is, therefore, almost a limiting amount of pentosans not extractable under each given set of conditions. The effect of decreasing particle size is to increase the amount of pentosan extractable under any given set of conditions. The optimum sodium hydroxide concentrations at 0, 20, 40, 60 and 80 degrees are about 2, 4, 7, 10 and 12%, and under the last of these conditions at least 80% of the pentosans can be extracted rapidly from the wood meal. Pentosan is made more accessible by increasing the alkali concentration up to these levels, but thereafter the amount of accessible pentosan is decreased by an increase in alkali concentration. The decrease in extractability has the same concentration and temperature dependence as the increase in cellulose swelling under the same conditions. Therefore, pentosan removal is inhibited by excessive swellin

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Author

Russell Nelson; Conrad Schuerch

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Wiley (ISSN 0022-3832)

Published

1956

Language

EN

Field

Materials Science (Physical Sciences)