Pilot-Scale Twin Screw Extrusion and Chemical Pretreatment as an Energy-Efficient Method for the Production of Nanofibrillated Cellulose at High Solid Content

ACS Sustainable Chemistry and Engineering

Volumn 5, Issue 8, 2017, Pages 6524-6531

  Rol, Fleur ^a   Karakashov, Blagoj ^a   Nechyporchuk, Oleksandr ^a   Terrien, Maxime ^a   Meyer, Valérie ^b   Dufresne, Alain ^a   Belgacem, Mohamed Naceur ^a   Bras, Julien ^a,c  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b CENTRE TECHNIQUE DU PAPIER   (France)

^c INSTITUT UNIVERSITAIRE DE FRANCE   (France)

Author keywords

Cellulose nanofibers (CNFs); Cellulose pretreatment; Energy; Enzymatic hydrolysis; Extrusion; Mechanical properties; TEMPO oxidation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026921830     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21680485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acssuschemeng.7b00630     Document Type: Article

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