Management of Pulp and Paper Mill Waste

Management of Pulp and Paper Mill Waste
Author: Pratima Bajpai
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2014-11-07
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3319117882

Pulp and paper mill industries are always associated with the disposal problem of highly contaminated sludge or bio-solids. The development of innovative systems to maximize recovery of useful materials and/or energy in a sustainable way has become necessary. The management of wastes, in particular of industrial waste, in an economically and environmentally acceptable manner is one of the most critical issues facing modern industry, mainly due to the increased difficulties in properly locating disposal works and complying with even more stringent environmental quality requirements imposed by legislation. This book presents a general Introduction on waste management in the pulp and paper industry and contains topics on the generation of waste in pulp and paper mills, waste composition, methods of sludge pre-treatment, processes and technologies for conversion of pulp and paper mill waste into valuable products, waste reduction techniques employed in the pulp and paper Industry worldwide and future trends.

Elsevier's Dictionary of Acronyms, Initialisms, Abbreviations and Symbols

Elsevier's Dictionary of Acronyms, Initialisms, Abbreviations and Symbols
Author: Fioretta. Benedetto Mattia
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 742
Release: 2003-09-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0080544134

The dictionary contains an alphabetical listing of approximately 30,000 (thirty thousand) acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations and symbols covering approximately 2,000 fields and subfields ranging from Pelagic Ecology to Anthrax Disease, Artificial Organs to Alternative Cancer Therapies, Age-related Disorders to Auditory Brainstem Implants, Educational Web Sites to Biodefense, Biomedical Gerontology to Brain Development, Cochlear Implants to Cellular Phones, Constructed Viruses to Copper Metabolism, Drug Discovery Programs to Drug-resistant Strains, Eugenics to Epigenetics, Epilepsy Drugs to Fertility Research, Genetically Modified Foods/Crops to Futuristic Cars, Genetic Therapies to Glycobiology, Herbicide-tolerant Crops to Heritable Disorders, Human Chronobiology to Human gene Therapies, Immunization Programs to Lunar Research, Liver Transplantation to Microchip Technology, Mitochondrial Aging to Molecular Gerontology, Neurodegenerative Diseases to Neuropsychology of Aging, Neurosurgery to Next Generation Programs, Obesity Research to Prion Diseases, Quantum Cryptography to Reemerging Diseases, Retinal Degeneration to Rice Genome Research, Social Anthropology to Software Development, Synchrotron Research to Vaccine Developments, Remote Ultrasound Diagnostics to Water Protection, Entomology to Chemical Terrorism and hundreds of others, as well as abbreviations/acronyms/initialisms relating to European Community and U.S., Japanese and International Programs/Projects/Initiatives from year 2000 up to 2010 as well as World Bank Programs.

European Union R & D Acronyms

European Union R & D Acronyms
Author: Commission of the European Communities. Directorate-General Telecommunications, Information Market, and Exploitation of Research
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1995
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Energy and Sustainable Development

Energy and Sustainable Development
Author: United Nations. Division for Sustainable Development
Publisher: United Nations Publications
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9789211045178

Energy issues pose a challenge for efforts aimed at achieving sustainable development in that its use is necessary for economic and social development, yet it is also a major cause of environmental degradation, especially atmospheric pollution. Despite the growth in commercial energy use, two billion people remain without access to modern energy sources, and improving this situation is crucial to realising the Millennium Declaration goal of halving the number of people living in poverty by 2015. This publication contains a number of case studies to illustrate best practice and lessons learned regarding sustainable energy use, including: energy market reform, energy efficiency, conventional and renewable energy technologies.

Recycling and Deinking of Recovered Paper

Recycling and Deinking of Recovered Paper
Author: Pratima Bajpai
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2013-11-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0124171699

Paper recycling in an increasingly environmentally conscious world is gaining importance. Increased recycling activities are being driven by robust overseas markets as well as domestic demand. Recycled fibers play a very important role today in the global paper industry as a substitute for virgin pulps. Paper recovery rates continue to increase year after year Recycling technologies have been improved in recent years by advances in pulping, flotation deinking and cleaning/screening, resulting in the quality of paper made from secondary fibres approaching that of virgin paper. The process is a lot more eco-friendly than the virgin-papermaking process, using less energy and natural resources, produce less solid waste and fewer atmospheric emissions, and helps to preserve natural resources and landfill space. Currently more than half of the paper is produced from recovered papers. Most of them are used to produce brown grades paper and board but for the last two decades, there is a substantial increase in the use of recovered papers to produce, through deinking, white grades such as newsprint, tissue, market pulp. By using recycled paper, companies can take a significant step toward reducing their overall environmental impacts. This study deals with the scientific and technical advances in recycling and deinking including new developments. Covers in great depth all the aspects of recycling technologies Covers the latest science and technology in recycling Provides up-to-date, authoritative information and cites many mills experiences and pertinent research Includes the use of biotech methods for deinking, refining. and improving drainage

Eco-Friendly Adhesives for Wood and Natural Fiber Composites

Eco-Friendly Adhesives for Wood and Natural Fiber Composites
Author: Mohammad Jawaid
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-01-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 981334749X

This book provides an overview of eco-friendly resins and their composite materials covering their synthesis, sources, structures and properties for different industrial applications to support the ongoing research and development in eco-friendly and renewable commercial products. It provides comparative discussions on the properties of eco-friendly resins with other polymer composites. It is a useful reference on bio-based eco-friendly polymer resins, wood-based composites, natural fibers and biomass materials for the polymer scientists, engineers and material scientists.

Directions in Tropical Agroforestry Research

Directions in Tropical Agroforestry Research
Author: P. K. Ramachandran Nair
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2013-04-18
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9401590087

Large areas of the warm, humid tropics in Southeast Asia, the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa are hilly or mountainous. Jackson and Scherr (1995) estimate that these tropical hillside areas are inhabited by 500 million people, or one-tenth of the current world population, many of whom practice subsistence agriculture. The region most affected is Asia which has the lowest area of arable land per capita. Aside from limited areas of irrigated terraces, most of the sloping land, which constitutes 60% to 90% of the land resources in many Southeast Asian countries, has been by-passed in the economic development of the region (Maglinao and Hashim, 1993). Poverty in these areas is often high, in contrast to the relative wealth of irri gated rice farms in lowland areas that benefited from the green revolution. Rapid population growth in some countries is also exacerbating the problems of hillside areas. Increasingly, people are migrating from high-potential lowland areas where land is scarce to more remote hillside areas. Such migra tion, together with inherent high population growth, is forcing a transforma tion in land use from subsistence to permanent agriculture on fragile slopes, and is creating a new suite of social, economic, and environmental problems (Garrity, 1993; Maglinao and Hashim, 1993).