Hemicellulose in Dissolving Pulp and its Behaviour during its Processing to Viscose

Abstract The amount of “hemicellulose” in pulps varies according to wood species, and the pulping processes including their bleaching agents. Making viscose cellulosic and non‐cellulosic material is removed during mercerisation which is the first processing step. Low molecular weight material is also formed during the reduction of the degree of polymerisation in order to fit the alkali cellulose for xanthation and dissolving, respectively. In this work commercially available dissolving pulps with respect to their behaviour during the preparation of viscose fibres shall be discussed. For these investigations a Eucalyptus sulphite and a Eucalyptus pre‐ hydrolysed sulphate pulps were selected.