3.2. Microwave assisted hydrolysis
Table 1 shows the effect of different pretreatment methods on
the efficiency of a-cellulose hydrolysis under microwave irradiation.
This process lasted 10 min at 160 C. For the origin cellulose
without any pretreatment (Entry 1), the hydrolysis efficiency with
0.06 M HCl achieved the cellulose conversion and glucose yield of
9.65% and 5.96%, respectively. In the presence of both NaCl and
HCl, the conversion and yield increased to 17.9% and 14.2%
(Entry 2), respectively.The enhancement could be attributed the
breaking of hydrogen bonds among cellulose fibers by the salt ions