In alkaline papermaking process, use of alkenyl succinic anhydride (ASA) for internal sizing of paper is continuously increasing. ASA imparts sizing to paper quicker than that imparted by alkyl ketene dimer (AKD). Cationic ...

The industrial solid waste generation and its stockpile disposal have major environmental consequences. These consequences could be minimized through the solid waste application as a raw material in other industries. The ...

It is predicted that fossil fuels which include oil, coal and natural gas reserves will deplete in next few decades. The world primary energy consumption fulfilled through fossil fuel is 79% and accounts 57.7% of volume ...

Cloud computing provides the services either in the form of software application or hardware infrastructure on the basis of pay per use over the internet. There are lots of challenges in the field of cloud computing due ...

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. ...