
Natural Polyphenols from Wood
Tannin and Lignin – An Industrial Perspective
Description
Key Features
- This book re-evaluates wood polyphenols from an industrial perspective, revealing the latest techniques and drawing on patent literature.
- It addresses fundamental issues of wood polyphenols, such as carbon cycle, wood fractionation, structure, and properties.
- It offers a comprehensive review of practical applications, including lignin depolymerization, wood reconstruction, fuels, chemicals, drugs, and food.
Readership
Researchers and advanced students in biopolymer science, biomass, wood chemistry, paper, wood adhesives, polymer materials, renewable resources, and biotechnology. Industrial R&D and scientists working with wood polyphenols or bio-based polymers.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: tree fractionation from old postulates to a new paradigm
C. Hagiopol
2. Trees: a sustainable source of lignin and tannin
C. Hagiopol
3. The tree fractionation: the extraction of natural polyphenols
C. Hagiopol
4. Wood tannins: structure, production, and analysis
K. Cheng
5. Industrial scale lignin recovery from pulping liquors
K. Cheng
6. Lignin characterization: structure, size, and stability
K. Cheng
7. Capitalizing on lignin and tannin value: their chemical reactivity and their potential
C. Hagiopol
8. Natural polyphenols applications
C. Hagiopol
9. Wood reconstruction
C. Hagiopol
Product details
- No. of pages: 338
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Elsevier 2021
- Published: March 24, 2021
- Imprint: Elsevier
- eBook ISBN: 9780128222065
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128222058