The pulp and paper industry (PPI) is well known for the consumption of tremendous volume of fresh water and subsequent generation of large volume of wastewater. The wastewater consists of significant amount of degraded ...

Rapid industrial expansion along with urbanization and intensive agriculture without adequate environmental management strategies leads to a significant enrichment of contaminants in the ecological system. Heavy metal ...

Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) is an emerging platform for most of the humancentered applications, ranging from sports to medical performance monitoring. The ubiquitous and scalable nature of cloud makes it the most ...

The present thesis envisages the biotechnological approach for the reduction in refining energy requirement during papermaking process. Refining, one of the crucial step for development of paper strength properties, ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate, decolourisation (removal of rhodamine-b, irgalite blue and reactive blue-4 dyes) and detoxification (removal of 2-CP, 4-CP, 2,4-DCP and phenol) of wastewater by simple adsorption, ...

The world production of paper and paperboard in 2012 was 399 million tonnes. Currently, the production of paper, paperboard and newsprint in India is 10.11 million tonnes. The annual consumption of paper, paperboard and ...

There is an increasing need for recycling. However, for recycling of paper, conventional method of chemical deinking is used but it needs further improvements to make the quality of recycled fibres reach up to that of ...

The pulp and paper industry is among one of the largest sources, which discharge enormous quantity of pollutants including gaseous, liquid, and solid waste into the environment. Despite these, it is also the third largest ...

Bagasse and wheat straw are important raw materials for the Indian paper industry, with a potential of high growth. The recycled paper available to the Indian paper industry will have increasing proportions of these fibers ...

The thesis starts with introducing the process of paper making in general and discussing the process conditions with a view to have an idea about the corrosivity of the liquors and possible candidate materials of construction. ...