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Impact of modifying conventional chlorine dioxide stage to hot chlorine dioxide during rice straw pulp bleaching on pulp, paper and effluent characteristics

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Paper industry being a mature mega-scale industry is focusing on process oriented technical modifications to reduce dependency on wood fibers and resource utilization. In this research study, conventional chlorine dioxide (D0) bleaching method was modified to hot chlorine dioxide (DHT) with an aim of reducing the effluent load with special concern to chlorolignin compounds. These compounds were measured by gas chromatograph equipped with ECD detector. The chlorophenols, chlorocatechols, chloroguaiacols, chlorovanillins, chlorosyringols and bromophenols were reduced by 9%, 50%, 34%, 47%, 17% and 31%, respectively under DHT based sequence at same dose of chemicals. The general environmental parameters i.e. COD, BOD, TS, colour, lignin and AOX also got reduced in DHT based sequence. The modification of D0 to DHT was found to be effective as effluent quality was enhanced without compromising the optical and strength properties of cellulosic paper even at low dose of chlorine dioxide.

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The authors acknowledge the Ministry of Minority Affairs (India) and University Grants Commission (India) (Grant No. F-17.1/2013-14/MANF/2013-14/SIK/HAR/22981) for providing the financial support under Maulana Azad National Fellowship for Minority Students to first author. The first author is highly thankful to Director, Avantha Centre for Industrial Research and Development for allowing to carry out research work and also to the Department of Environmental Science and Engg, Guru Jambeshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar (India).

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    Daljeet Kaur

  2. Department of Environmental Science and Engineering, Guru Jambheshwar University of Science and Technology, Hisar, Haryana, India

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Kaur, D., Bhardwaj, N.K. & Lohchab, R.K. Impact of modifying conventional chlorine dioxide stage to hot chlorine dioxide during rice straw pulp bleaching on pulp, paper and effluent characteristics. Cellulose 26, 7469–7482 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-019-02616-5

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