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Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quarterly, Vol. 29 No. 3, 2015.

Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15255/CABEQ.2015.2176

Chemical and Thermal Properties of Cellulose Acetate Prepared from White Willow (Salix alba) and Black Alder (Alnus glutinosa) as a Potential Polymeric Base of Biocomposite Materials

N. Španić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-0484-0125 ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry, Wood Technology Section, Department for Material Technologies, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10 002 Zagreb, Croatia
V. Jambreković ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry, Wood Technology Section, Department for Material Technologies, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10 002 Zagreb, Croatia
S. Medved ; University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Wood Science and Technology, Rožna dolina, C. VIII/34, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
A. Antonović ; University of Zagreb, Faculty of Forestry, Wood Technology Section, Department for Material Technologies, Svetošimunska cesta 25, 10 002 Zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

Natural polymeric materials are an interesting alternative to petrochemical products with potential application in almost all areas of human activity. Wishing to expand the field of cellulose acetate application to the biocomposite wood materials, the possibilities
of cellulose isolation and its acetylation from two domestic, commercially meagrely used, wood species was investigated in this paper. Cellulose isolated from white willow (Salix alba) and black alder (Alnus glutinosa) was acetylated using acetic anhydride and
perchloric acid catalyst, by treatment at room temperature for 45 minutes. Analysis of the laboratory acetylation process, beside chemical analysis of the gained product by infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), indicated the impact of hemicelluloses, present both in cellulose
and cellulose acetate structure, on values of mass increase, number of acetyl groups and the degree of substitution. Results of thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) later confirmed the statement that thermal properties of cellulose acetate were also dependant on hemicelluloses.

Keywords

wood; cellulose; acetylation; bio composite materials; FT-IR; TGA

Hrčak ID:

147001

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/147001

Publication date:

14.10.2015.

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