The chemical kinetics of the sulfuric acid hydrolysis

The chemical kinetics of the sulfuric acid hydrolysis of softwood was determined by J.F.Seaman in 1945 as follows:

• a 100% increase in acid concentration causes an increase of 153% in the k1 cellulose-hydrolysis-rate kinetics constant, but that increase only caused the k2-sugar product-degradation kinetics constant to increase 103%.
• a 10 degree rise in C temperature causes an increase of approximately 190% in the k1- cellulose-hydrolysis-rate kinetics constant, but then k2-sugar-product-degredation kinetics constant increased only 130%.