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Biofiltration of Exhaust Gases

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Biotechnology for Environmental Protection in the Pulp and Paper Industry

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People living in or near a kraft pulp mill often complain of the odor nuisance associated with the mill’s operations. These complaints are directly related to the production of odorous compounds during the cooking of wood chips with white liquor and subsequent points of gaseous release to the atmosphere. Even when pure sodium hydroxide is used to treat wood and straw, odors are produced. The cause of these odors is to be found in the residual sulfurcontaining protoplasm which reacts with the alkali to form mercaptans and organic sulfides during the digestion phase. It was found that the mercaptans are formed by the saponification of lignin methoxyl groups by sulfide ions.

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    Dr. Pratima Bajpai & Dr. Pramod K. Bajpai

  2. Department of Forest Products, Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University, Hakozaki, Higashi-ku, 812-8581, Fukuoka, Japan

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Bajpai, P., Bajpai, P.K., Kondo, R. (1999). Biofiltration of Exhaust Gases. In: Biotechnology for Environmental Protection in the Pulp and Paper Industry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60136-1_11

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