 | 1914 - 646 pages
...general, of digesting sawdust or hogged and shredded wood with a dilute mineral acid at from 60 pounds and more of steam pressure. This converts part of the...and hexose sugars. The latter are then fermented, producing alcohol. The processes using concentrated sulphuric acid, in which the wood is really attacked... | |
 | Frederick William Kressman - 1922 - 116 pages
...acid (preferably mineral acid) as a catalyzer, and solution processes, in which the wood is dissolved in concentrated acid and the diluted solution is then...attention, notwithstanding the fact that Flechsig 8 many years ago showed that cotton cellulose could thereby be converted into dextrose and alcohol... | |
 | Frederick William Kressman - 1922 - 112 pages
...acid (preferably mineral acid) as a catalyzer, and solution processes, in which the wood is dissolved in concentrated acid and the diluted solution is then...commercial attention, notwithstanding the fact that Flechsig6 many years ago showed that cotton cellulose could thereby be converted into dextrose and... | |
 | Frederick William Kressman - 1922 - 116 pages
...acid (preferably mineral acid) as a catalyzer, and solution processes, in which the wood is dissolved in concentrated acid and the diluted solution is then...commercial attention, notwithstanding the fact that Flechsig8 many years ago showed that cotton cellulose could thereby be converted into dextrose and... | |
 | Eugene Hendricks Leslie - 1923 - 700 pages
...hydrolysis of part of the cellulose, by means of dilute acid under about 60 Ibs. steam pressure, to a mixture of pentose and hexose sugars. The latter are then fermented to alcohol. In practice 12 to 20 gallons of 95 per cent alcohol are obtained per ton of wood, although... | |
 | Paul William Allen - 1926 - 430 pages
...acid (preferably mineral acid) as a catalyzer, and solution processes, in which the wood is dissolved in concentrated acid and the diluted solution is then...actually dissolved by the acid, as in the Ekstrom process, have not received commercial attention, notwithstanding the fact that Flechsig many years... | |
 | Paul William Allen - 1926 - 436 pages
...general, of digesting sawdust or hogged and shredded wood with a dilute mineral acid at from 60 pounds and more, of steam pressure. This converts part of the...and hexose sugars. The latter are then fermented, producing alcohol. "The source of the fermentable sugar, that is, whether derived. from the cellulose... | |
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The processes used for the production of ethyl alcohol from wood may be grouped into two general classes: Hydrolysis of wood into fermentable sugars by the use of dilute acid (preferably mineral acid) as a catalyzer, and solution processes, in which the... 