CPC C10G 1/047 (2013.01) [C08H 8/00 (2013.01); C10G 3/50 (2013.01); C10G 2300/1014 (2013.01); C10G 2300/4006 (2013.01); C10G 2300/44 (2013.01); C10G 2400/04 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A process for at least partly dissolving bark containing a suberin component in a solvent system and for at least partly depolymerizing the suberin component, the process comprising the following steps:
providing bark;
providing a solvent system comprising water and a base selected from tertiary aliphatic amines;
treating the bark with the solvent system by subjecting the bark to the solvent system at a temperature of at least 160° C., thereby obtaining a composition containing at least partly dissolved substances of bark, of which substances the suberin component is at least partly depolymerized.
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