Biomechanical pulping

Another pulping method that has reached the pilot plant stage, and will probably be commercialized in the near future, is biomechanical pulping. This approach involves the use of... 

Akhtar, M., Blanchette, R., Myers, G., and Kirk, T., An overview of Biomechanical Pulping, in Environmentally Friendly Technologies for the Pulp and Paper Industry, R. A. Young and M. Akhtar (Eds.), John Wiley Sons, New York, 1998. 

UP Agarwal and M Akhtar. Understanding Fungus-Induced Brightness Loss of Biomechanical Pulps. TAPPI Pulping/Process and Product Quality Conference, Boston, 2000, pp. 1229-1240. 

M Akhtar, RA Blanchette, TK Kirk. Fungal delignification and biomechanical pulping of wood. In Special Issue Biotechnology in the Pulp and Paper Industry. K.-E.L Eriksson, Ed. Adv. Biochem. Eng./BiotechnoL, Springer Verlag, 1997, pp. 159-196. 

Biochemical pulping has received much less attention than biomechanical pulping. The available information has been comprehensively summarized in two book chapters [20,85]. 

GF Leatham, GC Myers, TH Wegner. Biomechanical pulping of aspen chips Energy savings resulting from different fungal treatments. Tappi J 73(5) 197-200, 1990. 

M Akhtar, MC Attridge, GC Myers, RA Blanchette. Biomechanical pulping of loblolly pine chips with selected white-rot fungi. Holrforschung 47 36 0, 1993. 

M Akhtar, RA Blanchette, TK Kirk. Fungal delignification and biomechanical pulping of wood. Adv Biochem Eng/Biotechnol 57 159-195, 1997. 

M Akhtar, RA Blanchette, G Myers, TK Kirk. An overview of biomechanical pulping research. In RA Young, M Akhtar, eds. Environmentally Friendly Technologies for the Pulp and Paper Industry. New York John Wiley Sons, Inc., 1998, pp. 309-340. 

EC Setliff, R Marton, SG Granzow, KL Eriksson. Biomechanical pulping with white-rot fungi. Tapp 7 73(8) 141-147, 1990. 

RN Patel, KK Rao. Potential use of the white-rot fungus Antrodiella sp. (RKl) in the process of biomechanical pulping and bioremediation. Proceedings of Eifth International Conference on Biotechnology in the Pulp and Paper Industry, Kyoto, 1992, p. 65. 

M Akhtar. Biomechanical pulping of aspen wood chips with three strains of Ceriporiopsis subvermispora. Holzforschung 48 199-202, 1994. 

RA Blanchette, GF Leatham, M Attridge, M Akhtar, GC Myers. Biomechanical pulping with C. subvermispora. US Patent 5,055,159, 1991. 

S Iverson, R Blanchette, C Behrendt, MB Wall, D Williams. Phlebiopsis gigantea, a white rot fungus for biomechanical pulping. Proceedings of TAPPI Biological Sciences Symposium, San Francisco, 1997, pp. 25-28. 

HS Sabharwal, M Akhtar, RA Blanchette, R A Young. Biomechanical pulping of kenaf. 7app//77(12) 105-112, 1994. 

P Bustamante, J Ramos, V Zuniga, HS Sabharwal, RA Young. Biomechanical pulping of bagasse with the white rot fungi Ceriporiopsis subvermispora and Pleurotus ostrea-tus. 7app/7 82(6) 123-128, 1999. 

GF Leatham, GC Myers. A PIT mill can be used to predict biomechanical pulp strength properties. Tappi J 73 4) 192-197, 1990. 

Y Kashino, T Nishida, Y Takahara, K Fujita, R Kondo, K Sakai. Biomechanical pulping using white-rot fungus IZU-154. Tappi J 76(12) 167-171, 1993. 

M Sykes. Bleaching and brightness stability of aspen biomechanical pulps. Tappi J 76(11) 121-126, 1993. 

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