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@Copyright 1990by The Humana Press Inc. All rights of any nature whatsoever reserved. 座机电话号码2425--0001502.80 Pretreatment-Catalyst Effects and the Combined Severity Parameter HELENA L. CHUM, DAVID K. J O H N S O N , STUART K. BLACK, AND RALPH P. O V E R E N D 1 Chemical Conversion Research Branch, Solar Energy Research Institute, 161 7 Cole Blvd., Golden, CO 80401; and 1Division of Biological Sciences, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Canada K IA OR6 A ~ T ~ C T Fractionation of lignocellulosic materials into high-yield cellulosic solid components can be accomplished with acid-catalyzed aqueous and mixed aqueous and nonaqueous media, with the latter leading to high lignin and xyland removal. Concepts combining only time and temperature pulping profile with catalyst concentration are presented to correlate these two types of fractionation methods with pulping variables. Severity concepts combining time and temperature only are often used in the pulp and paper industry. The present extension of this concept produces phenomenologicaldescriptions that permit com- parisons of different proceses and yield some pseudokinetic param- eters for aspen Populustremuloides acid-catalyzed fractionation. Index Entries: Catalyst effects; severity parameters; lignin; xylan; lignocellulosics. INTRODUCTION Organosolv delignification of wood was originally studied by Kleinert and Tayenthal 1 and Kleinert 2,3 as a high-yield process to replace kraft pulping. More recently, both acid and base as well as non-catalyzed ethanol and methanol organosolv processes have been studied at the labor- atory and pilot plant levels 4-10 . One of these, the ALCELL TM process, is now being demonstrated at the 36 t/d level at REPAPs New Brunswick mill 7 . *Author to whom all correspondence and reprint requests should be addressed. Applied Blochernistry and Biotec