Converting a kraft pulp mill into a multi-product biorefinery: Techno-economic analysis of a case mill

Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1411-1422

  Lundberg, Valeria ^a   Bood, Jon ^a   Nilsson, Linus ^a   Axelsson, Erik ^b   Berntsson, Thore ^a   Svensson, Elin ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b Profu   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Biorefinery; Debottlenecking; Dissolving pulp; Economic assessment; Kraft pulp mill; Pinch analysis

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; INTEGRATION; LIGNIN; PAPER AND PULP MILLS; PULP MANUFACTURE; REFINING;

BIOREFINERIES; DEBOTTLENECKING; DISSOLVING PULP; ECONOMIC ASSESSMENTS; PINCH ANALYSIS;

KRAFT PULP;

EID: 84921068849     PISSN: 1618954X     EISSN: 16189558     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10098-014-0741-8     Document Type: Article

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