Environmentally Friendly Technologies for the Pulp and Paper Industry

by Raymond A. Young (Editor), Masood Akhtar (Editor)

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780471157700
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	11/19/1997
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.57(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

The late Raymond A. Young started his lifelong career with the Missouri Farmers Association in 1933 as an accountant for the Producers Produce Company in Springfield. Masood Akhtar is the editor of Environmentally Friendly Technologies for the Pulp and Paper Industry, published by Wiley.

Table of Contents

Partial table of contents:

The Need for New Technologies in the Pulp and Paper Industry (M.Akhtar & R. Young) CHEMICAL APPLICATIONS TO PULP AND PAPERPROCESSING.

Developments in Organosolv Pulping--An Overview (H. Hergert).

Catalyzed Alcohol Organosolv Pulping (L. Paszner).

Steam Explosion Pulping (B. Kokta & A. Ahmed).

BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS TO PULP AND PAPER PROCESSING.

Taxonomy of Industrially Important White-Rot Fungi (H.Burdsall).

Engineering, Scale-Up, and Economic Aspects of Fungal Pretreatmentof Wood Chips (G. Scott, et al.).

Fungal Pretreatment for Organosolv Pulping Dissolving PulpProduction (A. Ferraz, et al.).

Biological Approach for Pulping and Bleaching of Nonwoody Plants(H. Sabharwal).

Bleaching Kraft Pulps with White-Rot Fungi (I. Reid).

Fungal Treatment of Wood Chips to Remove Extractives (C. Breuil, etal.).

Index.

Editorial Reviews

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.

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