Enhanced fiber quality of black spruce (picea mariana) thermomechanical pulp fiber through selective enzyme application

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 5945-5951

  Sabourin, Marc J ^a   Hart, Peter W ^b  

^a ANDRITZ INC   (United States)

^b MWV Product Development   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APPLICATION METHOD; BLACK SPRUCE; CONTROL SAMPLES; ENERGY REQUIREMENTS; ENZYME ACTION; ENZYME REACTION; ENZYME TREATMENT; FIBER PULPS; FIBER QUALITY; FIBER SURFACE; FIBER WALL; IMAGE ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES; LOW ENERGIES; MONO-COMPONENT; MULTICOMPONENTS; NEW APPLICATIONS; PECTINASES; PICEA MARIANA; REFINING ENERGY; SEM; SURFACE DISRUPTION; TEAR INDEX; THERMOMECHANICAL PULPING; WOOD CHIP;

ENZYMES; FIBERS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PULP; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIFIC SURFACE AREA; SURFACES; THERMOMECHANICAL PULP; THERMOMECHANICAL PULPING PROCESS; WATER TREATMENT; WOOD PRODUCTS;

PULP REFINING;

ENZYMES; FIBRILLATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PULPS; REFINING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; SPECIFIC SURFACE; THERMOMECHANICAL PULPS; WATER TREATMENT; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 77953340677     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie100681e     Document Type: Article

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