Wood Waste Turned Into Value Added Products: Thermal Plasticization by Benzylation Process

Machine Usage in Manufacturing Value-Added Wood Products

A study of equipment usage in the Louisiana secondary wood products industry was conducted in 1994. The objectives of this study were to determine types of machines used by the value-added industry sector and to identify commonalties of types of machines used between industry segments. For the purpose of this analysis, if a product was produced by more than 10 companies, it was considered a sep...

Microbial Conversion of Waste Glycerol from Biodiesel Production into Value-Added Products

Biodiesel has gained a significant amount of attention over the past decade as an environmentally friendly fuel that is capable of being utilized by a conventional diesel engine. However, the biodiesel production process generates glycerol-containing waste streams which have become a disposal issue for biodiesel plants and generated a surplus of glycerol. A value-added opportunity is needed in ...

Process Modifications for Wood Waste Feedstocks

Issue: Pulp and paper industry were originally designed and constructed to use virgin wood feedstocks as a raw material. Some of the virgin wood fiber used for the pulp and paper industry is from lower value roundwood logs that are chipped for pulping. The other major source is from the residuals from sawmill, veneer, and lumber plants. These solid wood production plants produce millions of ton...

Value Added Products from Oil Shale

Oil shale is more than an energy source. It is also a source for various valuable materials. These materials include pyridine, carbonate minerals, alumina, ammonium sulfate, phosphate, sulfur, uranium, vanadium, and zinc, to name a few, from which numerous value-added products can be manufactured. For example, catalysts are made from vanadium and zinc, while alumina is a widely used material fo...

Value added products from hemicellulose: Biotechnological perspective