Environmentally Friendly Technologies for the Pulp and Paper Industry
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Overview
Solving the pulp and paper industries' environmental problems is essential to maintaining the forest industry and accommodating the changing economic needs of forest communities. This book explores the construction of new mills—operating on new technology that does not produce pollutants—which are vital to the pulp and paper industry.
Synopsis
Solving the pulp and paper industries' environmental problems is essential to maintaining the forest industry and accommodating the changing economic needs of forest communities. This book explores the construction of new mills—operating on new technology that does not produce pollutants—which are vital to the pulp and paper industry.
Booknews
Each chapter author in this collection has developed a new process for the production of pulp and paper, representing a shift to more environmentally friendly techniques in the industry. In their introduction, the editors claim that the contributors' approaches generally represent revolutionary, rather than evolutionary change. Eighteen contributions are grouped in sections on chemical and on biological applications to pulp and paper processing. Among the topics: organosolv, acetic acid-based, and steam explosion pulping; chlorine-free bleaching of pulps; industrially important white-rot fungi; biomechanical pulping; and engineering, scale-up, and economic aspects of fungal pretreatment of wood chips. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.