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Beneficial Effects Of Fungal Treatment Before Pulping And Bleaching Of Acacia Mangium And Eucalyptus Camaldulensis, Md. Nazrul Islam, Md. Rezaul Karim, Raimo O. Malinen
Beneficial Effects Of Fungal Treatment Before Pulping And Bleaching Of Acacia Mangium And Eucalyptus Camaldulensis, Md. Nazrul Islam, Md. Rezaul Karim, Raimo O. Malinen
Turkish Journal of Agriculture and Forestry
Three white-rot fungi (Ceriporiopsis subvermispora (Pilát) Gilb. & Ryvarden, Phanerochate chrysosporium Burds, and Trametes (Coriolus) versicolor (L.) Lloyd) were tested for their ability to modify/degrade lignin in cooking and bleaching. Both chips and pulps of Acacia mangium Willd. and Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehn. were pretreated with these white-rot fungi for different time periods (8, 12, and 16 days for chips; and 4, 8, and 12 days for pulps). For chip pretreatment, Kappa number decreased with the increase of fungal treatment time, and the maximum reduction in Kappa number was 28% and 25% for acacia and eucalyptus, respectively, after 16 days of …