Microwave assisted treatment of carpentry waste wood flour with natural deep eutectic solvents for nanocellulose production and removal of organic pollutants

Row carpentry waste wood flour, constituted of poplar (∼60 %) and fir (∼30 %) biomass, was subjected for the first time to microwave-assisted deep eutectic solvent (DES) treatment, with the purposes of solubilizing lignin and hemicellulose, leaving cellulose as solid residue, thus performing a biore...

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Main Authors: Giovanni Cisternino, Francesca Baldassarre, Giuseppe Ciccarella, Piero Mastrorilli, Maria Michela Dell'Anna
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Francesca Baldassarre
Giuseppe Ciccarella
Piero Mastrorilli
Maria Michela Dell'Anna
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description Row carpentry waste wood flour, constituted of poplar (∼60 %) and fir (∼30 %) biomass, was subjected for the first time to microwave-assisted deep eutectic solvent (DES) treatment, with the purposes of solubilizing lignin and hemicellulose, leaving cellulose as solid residue, thus performing a biorefinery. Several acidic (choline chloride/oxalic acid; choline chloride/citric acid; betaine hydrochloride/oxalic acid) and alkaline (urea/choline chloride; glycerol/K2CO3) DESs were employed under the same reaction conditions. Since the highest extraction yield was obtained by using choline chloride/oxalic acid DES, the use of the latter was investigated by varying some parameters (temperature, manner of microwave irradiation, addition of water) aiming at increasing the solubilization yield, which in fact in some cases reached satisfying values (60 %) under mild conditions. The solid residues (SRs) recovered after all treatments with all tested DESs were characterized by Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Tranform Infrared Spectroscopy, Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy, and titration of surface acid groups. All SRs were also ultrasonicated to produce cellulose nanoparticles which were in turn characterised by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) analyses. In addition, the solid residues recovered from acidic DESs were able to decontaminate water from organic pollutants, such as p-nitrophenol, by an adsorption process. Thus, the proposed DES treatment efficiently converted carpentry waste wood flour into a valuable biomaterial useful for environmental decontamination.
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spelling doaj-art-ee3f15cec3b6464db1e2d98c25774c572025-08-20T01:59:39ZengElsevierCarbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications2666-89392024-12-01810057210.1016/j.carpta.2024.100572Microwave assisted treatment of carpentry waste wood flour with natural deep eutectic solvents for nanocellulose production and removal of organic pollutantsGiovanni Cisternino0Francesca Baldassarre1Giuseppe Ciccarella2Piero Mastrorilli3Maria Michela Dell'Anna4DICATECh, Politecnico di Bari, via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali, Università del Salento, Via Monteroni s.n.c. 73100 Lecce, Italy; Istituto di Nanotecnologia CNR-Nanotec, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, ItalyDipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biologiche e Ambientali, Università del Salento, Via Monteroni s.n.c. 73100 Lecce, Italy; Istituto di Nanotecnologia CNR-Nanotec, Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche, via Monteroni, 73100 Lecce, ItalyDICATECh, Politecnico di Bari, via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, ItalyDICATECh, Politecnico di Bari, via Orabona, 4 70125 Bari, Italy; Corresponding author.Row carpentry waste wood flour, constituted of poplar (∼60 %) and fir (∼30 %) biomass, was subjected for the first time to microwave-assisted deep eutectic solvent (DES) treatment, with the purposes of solubilizing lignin and hemicellulose, leaving cellulose as solid residue, thus performing a biorefinery. Several acidic (choline chloride/oxalic acid; choline chloride/citric acid; betaine hydrochloride/oxalic acid) and alkaline (urea/choline chloride; glycerol/K2CO3) DESs were employed under the same reaction conditions. Since the highest extraction yield was obtained by using choline chloride/oxalic acid DES, the use of the latter was investigated by varying some parameters (temperature, manner of microwave irradiation, addition of water) aiming at increasing the solubilization yield, which in fact in some cases reached satisfying values (60 %) under mild conditions. The solid residues (SRs) recovered after all treatments with all tested DESs were characterized by Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA), Attenuated Total Reflectance-Fourier Tranform Infrared Spectroscopy, Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy, and titration of surface acid groups. All SRs were also ultrasonicated to produce cellulose nanoparticles which were in turn characterised by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) analyses. In addition, the solid residues recovered from acidic DESs were able to decontaminate water from organic pollutants, such as p-nitrophenol, by an adsorption process. Thus, the proposed DES treatment efficiently converted carpentry waste wood flour into a valuable biomaterial useful for environmental decontamination.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266689392400152XCarpentry waste wood flourDeep eutectic solventsNanocelluloseWater remediationOrganic pollutant
spellingShingle Giovanni Cisternino
Francesca Baldassarre
Giuseppe Ciccarella
Piero Mastrorilli
Maria Michela Dell'Anna
Microwave assisted treatment of carpentry waste wood flour with natural deep eutectic solvents for nanocellulose production and removal of organic pollutants
Carbohydrate Polymer Technologies and Applications
Carpentry waste wood flour
Deep eutectic solvents
Nanocellulose
Water remediation
Organic pollutant
title Microwave assisted treatment of carpentry waste wood flour with natural deep eutectic solvents for nanocellulose production and removal of organic pollutants
title_full Microwave assisted treatment of carpentry waste wood flour with natural deep eutectic solvents for nanocellulose production and removal of organic pollutants
title_fullStr Microwave assisted treatment of carpentry waste wood flour with natural deep eutectic solvents for nanocellulose production and removal of organic pollutants
title_full_unstemmed Microwave assisted treatment of carpentry waste wood flour with natural deep eutectic solvents for nanocellulose production and removal of organic pollutants
title_short Microwave assisted treatment of carpentry waste wood flour with natural deep eutectic solvents for nanocellulose production and removal of organic pollutants
title_sort microwave assisted treatment of carpentry waste wood flour with natural deep eutectic solvents for nanocellulose production and removal of organic pollutants
topic Carpentry waste wood flour
Deep eutectic solvents
Nanocellulose
Water remediation
Organic pollutant
url http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266689392400152X
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