Valorisation of hardwood hemicelluloses in the kraft pulping process by using an integrated biorefinery concept

Food and Bioproducts Processing

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 197-207

  Mendes, C V T ^a,b   Carvalho, M G V S ^a   Baptista, C M S G ^a   Rocha, J M S ^a   Soares, B I G ^b   Sousa, G D A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b RAIZ Instituto de Investigacao da Floresta e Papel   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Bioethanol; Biorefinery; Eucalyptus globulus; Hemicelluloses; Hydrolysis; Pulp and paper

Indexed keywords

ACID HYDROLYSIS; BIOREFINERY; BIOREFINERY CONCEPT; BRIGHTNESS REVERSION; ETHANOL CONCENTRATIONS; ETHANOL PRODUCTION; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; HEMICELLULOSES; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; KRAFT COOKING; KRAFT PULPING; PICHIA STIPITIS; PULP AND PAPER; PULP PRODUCTION; PULP QUALITIES; PULP VISCOSITY; PULP YIELDS; TWO STEP METHOD; VALORISATION; YIELD VALUE;

ACIDS; BIOCONVERSION; BIOETHANOL; CALCIUM; CATALYSIS; CELLULOSE; DISSOLUTION; ETHANOL; GLUCOSE; HARDWOODS; HYDROLYSIS; KRAFT PROCESS; KRAFT PULP; LEACHING;

PULP COOKING;

CALCIUM; DISSOLVING; ETHANOL; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; HARDWOODS; HEATING; HEMICELLULOSES; HYDROLYSIS; LEACHING; PAPER; PULPS;

EUCALYPTUS; EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS; PICHIA STIPITIS;

EID: 70349567475     PISSN: 09603085     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fbp.2009.06.004     Document Type: Article

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