Industrial kraft lignin

a waste produced by kraftpulping process in the pulp and paper industry

was usually burnt off.Lignin is of aromatic and aliphatic characters and could be used to produce some chemicals.In this paper

phenols were prepared using kraft lignin as material

FeS as catalyst and glycerol as solvent

and the feasibility and technological parameters of chemical conversion of industrial kraft lignin were studied.The results from response surface methodology(RSM)experiments showed that the optimal reaction conditions were catalyst dosage 4%

heating time 1 h

heating temperature 270℃

liquorsolid ratio 5 ml·g-1.Total yield of phenols

obtained from GCMS quantitative analysis

was up to 55.18%.The main phenols were 2-methoxyphenol

4-methyl-2-methoxyphenol and 2

6-dimethoxyphenol.The test results also indicated that hydrogen free radical provided by hydrogendonor solvent such as phenol and tetralin could effectively promote the thermal conversion of industrial kraft lignin.In summary

this chemical conversion method of industrial kraft lignin to phenols was feasible and effective.The results of kinetic study showed that the thermal conversion followed first order reaction kinetics

and reaction rate constant was 0.0212 min-1and activation energy was 35.7251 kJ·mol-1.