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Functional Materials from Paper Wastes: I. From Waste Newsprint Paper and Cardboard to High-Grade Cellulose Fibers

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Utilization of paper wastes as renewable resource of lignocellulosic constituents has the opportunity to promote a cleaner environment and to prepare valuable materials. This paper describes our study on an isolation of low-fiber powder cellulose from two grades of wastes as feedstocks: waste newsprint paper and cardboard wrapper through recycling including a thermal defibration, an alkali treatment with a solution of NaOH with a concentration from 0.03 to 1.00 М, bleaching with a solution of Н2О2 with a concentration from 0.8 to 2.6 М followed with an acid hydrolysis of the pretreated species with a solution of HNO3 of 1.5 and 3.0 M. The impact of the pretreatment on sizes of fibers was evaluated with stereoscopic microscopy. The powder celluloses obtained as a result of the acid hydrolysis exhibited the structure of cellulose I revealed with a WAXS method and were of a high-grade purity, according to EDXA. Sorption capacities of the powder celluloses from the waste cardboard and newsprint towards a dye methylene blue were 6.67 and 8.75 mg g–1, respectively.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors would like to thank V.M. Bel’kovich (postgraduate, St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, St. Petersburg) for participation in experiments and N.N. Saprykina (senior research associate, Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, St. Petersburg) for providing the results of the EDXA.

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  1. St. Petersburg State University of Industrial Technologies and Design, 191186, St. Petersburg, Russia

    A. M. Mikhailidi

  2. Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, FI-00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Sh. Karim Saurov

  3. Altai State University, 656049, Barnaul, Russia

    V. I. Markin

  4. Institute of Macromolecular Compounds, Russian Academy of Sciences, 199004, St. Petersburg, Russia

    N. E. Kotelnikova

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Mikhailidi, A.M., Saurov, S.K., Markin, V.I. et al. Functional Materials from Paper Wastes: I. From Waste Newsprint Paper and Cardboard to High-Grade Cellulose Fibers. Russ J Bioorg Chem 45, 888–894 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1068162019070069

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