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Published in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy 6/2013

01-12-2013 | Original Paper

Comparative study of toxic chlorophenolic compounds generated in various bleaching sequences of wheat straw pulp

Authors: Rachna Malhotra, Divya Prakash, Sudheer Kumar Shukla, Taesung Kim, Satish Kumar, N. J. Rao

Published in: Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy | Issue 6/2013

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Abstract

This study compared the chlorophenolic compounds generated during the bleaching of wheat straw pulp. The six different bleaching sequences used in present study were: (i) chlorine-extraction-hypo (CEH); (ii) persulphate-peroxide-chlorine-extraction-hypo (Px-P-CEH); (iii) oxygen-chlorine-extraction-hypo (OCEH); (iv) chlorine dioxide-extraction-chlorine dioxide (DED); (v) persulphate-peroxide-chlorine dioxide-extraction-chlorine dioxide (Px-P-DED); and (vi) oxygen-chlorine dioxide-extraction-chlorine dioxide (ODED) bleaching. The concentrations of a large number of identified chlorophenolic compounds often exceed their threshold concentrations in CEH effluent. Therefore, the untreated effluent generated from the CEH bleaching sequence of wheat straw pulp can be considered toxic. Prebleaching (PxP) reduces the generation of chlorophenolic compounds by 36 % in the (PxP)CEH sequence. Oxygen prebleaching reduces the generation of chlorophenolic compounds by 86 % in the OCEH bleaching effluent. The PxP also reduces the generation of chlorophenolic compounds by 46 % in the (PxP)DED bleaching sequence and oxygen delignification substantially reduces the generation of the compounds by 78 %.

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Title
Comparative study of toxic chlorophenolic compounds generated in various bleaching sequences of wheat straw pulp
Authors
Rachna Malhotra
Divya Prakash
Sudheer Kumar Shukla
Taesung Kim
Satish Kumar
N. J. Rao
Publication date
01-12-2013
Publisher
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in
Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy / Issue 6/2013
Print ISSN: 1618-954X
Electronic ISSN: 1618-9558
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10098-013-0578-6

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