Carboxylic acids are one of the most important building blocks and feedstocks for fine
chemicals, flavors and polymers, yet their production largely relies on petrochemical …

Membranes can significantly reduce energy consumption during concentration of black
liquor (BL) in the Kraft papermaking process, but the harsh conditions (pH~ 12, 80° C–95° …

Biomass pretreatment generally aims to increase accessibility to plant cell wall
polysaccharides for carbohydrate-active enzymes to produce sugars for biological or …

The pulp and paper industry is facing major challenges and will need to find more versatile
products to remain competitive. Large amounts of both solid and liquid residues are formed …

As a mandatory first step to assess the implementation of wet oxidation in the current
approach of paper mills as biorefineries, this paper discusses for the first time ever the effect …

This paper describes two effective ion exchange chromatography processes to separate and
recover monosaccharides, organic acids and phenolic compounds from two kinds of …

Soda black liquors from the Specel® process, which used wheat straw as the raw material,
were subjected to an acid precipitation process to recover the lignin. Lignin was isolated by …

The C1–C6 organic acid fraction of kraft black liquor has potential as a valuable and high-
volume biomass-derived molecular feedstock for the production of chemicals and materials …

The black liquor from the kraft pulping process is a potential source of organic acids (eg
hydroxy acids) which could have applications as a raw material for biodegradable polymers …

Kraft black liquor (BL) is a toxic residue from paper manufacture that can be revalorized to
obtain high value-added products. In this study, different integrated processes, consisting of …