This four volume set covers the entire spectrum of pulp and paper chemistry and technology from
starting material to processes and products including market demands. This work is essential
for all students of wood science and a useful reference for those working in the pulp and paper
industry or on the chemistry of renewable resources. Volume 1 provides a survey of the
biological and chemical structure of wood as well as an introduction to the chemical reactions
used during pulp production processes. The work presents the different raw materials used for
pulp production the macroscopic and morphological construction of wood and related
characterization methods the chemical structure and arrangement of the wood polymers and
extractives biosynthesis of wood polymers carbohydrate and lignin analysis reactions of wood
polymers in mechanical and chemical pulping and bleaching processes biotechnical processes of
relevance for the pulp and paper industry different types of microorganisms and their modes of
interaction with wood the impact of chemical and microbiological processes on the hierarchical
structure of wood and pulp.
