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Black Liquor Gasification

  • 1st Edition - March 6, 2014
  • Latest edition
  • Author: Pratima Bajpai
  • Language: English

Black Liquor Gasification (BLG) is a first of its kind to guide chemical engineers, students, operators of paper plants, technocrats, and entrepreneurs on practical guideline… Read more

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Description

Black Liquor Gasification (BLG) is a first of its kind to guide chemical engineers, students, operators of paper plants, technocrats, and entrepreneurs on practical guidelines and a holistic techno-enviro-economic perspective applicable to their future or existing projects based on the treatment of black liquor for energy production. BLG describes the gasification process as a more efficient alternative to current processes for the conversion of black liquor biomass into energy. BLG operates largely in sync with other methods to improve pulp-making efficiency. This book explains how BLG offers a way to generate electricity and to reclaim pulping chemicals from black liquor, and why BLG would replace the Tomlinson recovery boiler for the recovery of spent chemicals and energy.

Key features

  • Describes the utilization of black liquor as a source of energy
  • Provides a detailed account of black liquor gasification processes for the production of energy and chemicals from black liquor
  • Provides guidelines to chemical engineers for the treatment of black liquor

Readership

Chemists, chemical engineers, environmental engineers, forestry engineers, policy makers

Table of contents

Preface

Abbreviations

Chapter 1. General Background

1.1 The Pulp and Paper Industry

1.2 Pulp Making Process

1.3 Recovery Cycle

1.4 Modern Kraft Mills

References

Chapter 2. Black Liquor Gasification

2.1 BLG Technologies

2.2 Catalytic Hydrothermal Gasification of Black Liquor

References

Chapter 3. Market Opportunities

References

Chapter 4. Obstacles to Implementation of Black Liquor Gasification

4.1 Financial Risks

4.2 Protection of the Gasifier

4.3 Increase in the Causticizing Demand

4.4 Tar Condensation

4.5 Hot Gas Cleanup

4.6 Steam Deficit

References

Chapter 5. Environmental Impact of Black Liquor Gasification

References

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: March 6, 2014
  • Language: English

About the author

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Pratima Bajpai

Dr. Pratima Bajpai is a Pulp and Paper Consultant with a 40-year research career spanning institutions like the National Sugar Institute, University of Saskatchewan, and Thapar Research Centre. She has held visiting positions at the University of Waterloo and Kyushu University. Recognized among the World's Top 2% Scientists by Stanford University for five consecutive years, her expertise includes industrial biotechnology, environmental biotechnology, and pulp and paper. She has authored several advanced technical books and contributed to numerous publications, making significant contributions to her field. Dr. Bajpai is a leading expert in industrial biotechnology and environmental aspects of pulp and paper industries.
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant-Pulp and Paper, Kanpur, India

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