The coffee industry uses large amount of water during various stages of coffee production. Coffee processed by wet method generates large volume of high strength wastewater rich in COD and nutrients hence to comply with stringent environmental regulations and for restoration of safe environment, it has become imperative to find less costly and easily adaptable treatment technology. Coffee pulpi...

The perspective of the article is to explore kraft cooking at the limits of delignification, i.e. what degree of delignification is needed to obtain fibre liberation and what is the maximum degree of delignification possible in the kraft pulping stage. The reasons for the quite narrow boundaries for sufficient and maximum delignification are explained, and the differences between the behaviour ...

The demand of tissue papers is increasing with the population increase. This will definitely increase need wood fibers as main raw material. However, due to shortages, there have been many attempts use non- substitutes for papermaking. In Indonesia, corn production has gradually increased last 5 years, hence it also an impact on raising in amount husk waste. Corn a high cellulose content which ...

We evaluated lignin profiles and pulping performances of 2-year-old transgenic poplar (Populus tremula x Populus alba) lines severely altered in the expression of caffeic acid/5-hydroxyferulic acid O-methyltransferase (COMT) or cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase (CAD). Transgenic poplars with CAD or COMT antisense constructs showed growth similar to control trees. CAD down-regulated poplars display...

Alkali ratios and cooking time of the alkaline sulfite anthraquinone (AQ) and methanol (ASAM) pulping process of bamboo (Gigantochloa scortechinii) were studied. Bamboo chips were cooked at three different levels of sodium hydroxide and cooking time, namely 14, 16, or 18% for 60, 90, or 120 minutes. Pulping parameters that remained constant were the use of 0.5% ethylene diamine tetraacetic acid...

Many researchers have performed various studies to discover the reasons for the impressive catalytic effect of anthraquinone. Discussions and experiments have been conducted on the chemistry, kinetics, and physical properties of anthraquinone (AQ). However, most of the previous research has neglected the role of mass transfer in AQ pulping. This paper describes our analysis and interpretation o...