This book provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive information on the state-of-the-art
techniques and aspects involved in environment-friendly pulping technologies. Traditional
chemical and semi-chemical pulping processes are not environmentally friendly. Therefore it
has become important to look for alternative approaches to mitigate wastewater emissions in the
paper industry by making more stringent regulations to improve environmental conservation. In
response to this problem new raw materials need to be explored to replace traditional choices
and also new pulping processes need to be developed based on less polluting more easily
recovered reagents. This book presents new and emerging deep eutectic solvents for
lignocellulosic biomass pretreatment and discusses the effects of deep eutectic solvents on
biomass pretreatment and the production of value-added products. It also introduces
biotechnological methods of pulping. Biotechnological processes help to make manufacturing
processes cleaner and more efficient by reducing toxic chemical pollution and greenhouse gas
emissions. Given its scope this book is of interest to applied chemists foresters chemical
engineers wood scientists along with engineers and researchers involved in the pulp and paper
industry as a valuable reference.
