Integrated paperboard manufacturing consists of a number of unit processes that continuously generate large amounts of process data. Manufacturing is energy-intensive and variations must be taken into ...

The expensive, energy-intensive process of turning wood into paper costs the pulp and paper industries more than $6 billion a year. Much of that expense involves separating wood's cellulose from ...

One of the problems with paper recycling is that the fibers stiffen during the dewatering and drying processes, also known as hornification. The same thing happens to dishcloths, for example; they ...

Xylanases are hydrolytic enzymes that cleave the β-1,4 linkages of xylan, the major hemicellulosic component of plant cell walls. In the pulp and paper industry, these enzymes have been deployed to ...