(1)Kinetics of glucose epimerization and decomposition in subcritical and supercritical water外文学习材料.pdfVIP

1552 Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 1997, 36, 1552 1558 Kinetics of Glucose Epimerization and Decomposition in Subcritical and Supercritical Water Bernard M. Kabyemela,* Tadafumi Adschiri, Roberto M. Malaluan, and Kunio Arai Department of Chemical Engineering, Tohoku University, Aza, Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-77, Japan Glucose decomposition kinetics in subcritical and supercritical water were studied for the temperatures 573, 623, and 673 K, pressures between 25 and 40 MPa, and residence times between 0.02 and 2 s. Glucose decomposition products were fructose, saccharinic acids, erythrose, glyceraldehyde, 1,6-anhydroglucose, dihydroxyacetone, pyruvaldehyde, and small amounts of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural. Fructose was also studied and found to decompose to products similar to those of glucose, except that its epimerization to glucose was negligibly low and no formation of 1,6-anhydroglucose was detected. We concluded that only the forward epimerization of glucose to fructose was important. The glucose decomposition pathway could be described in terms of a forward epimerization rate, r , a fructose to decomposition products rate, r , and a glucose to gf f decomposition products rate, rg. A kinetic model based on this pathway gave good correlation of the experimental data. In the subcritical region, r , r , and r showed only small changes g f gf