The invention discloses a
xylose production process. The
xylose production process comprises the following steps: adding pretreated pentosan-enriched
plant fiber into a 1.0%-1.5%
sulfuric acid solution to generate
hydrolysis reaction, and filtering liquid to obtain
hydrolysate; decoloring the
hydrolysate by virtue of
activated carbon or decoloring resin until the transparency of the
hydrolysate is 20%-80%, and filtering to remove impurities by virtue of
membrane filter equipment; concentrating the filtered hydrolysate by virtue of membrane concentration equipment, and decoloring the hydrolysate until the transparency of the hydrolysate is 60%-90% to obtain feed liquid, wherein
leachate of the membrane concentration equipment is used as inflow water of an electroosmosis concentrated water chamber; desalting the feed liquid by virtue of electroosmosis and
ion exchange resin, wherein electroosmosis concentrated water is circularly applied to a
hydrolysis step; concentrating the feed liquid until the
refractive index is 80%, crystallizing in a
crystallization tank, and centrifuging to separate mother liquid, so as to obtain
xylose crystals. According to the xylose production process, the problem that the costs for
sewage treatments including
neutralization and
ion exchange in the prior art are high is solved, and the problems of short service life, low desalting efficiency, poor stability and high
power consumption of an electroosmosis manner in the production of xylose are solved.