Harvesting and utilizing wood and wood by-products for chemicals

Conference · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1980 · AIChE Symp. Ser.; (United States)

OSTI ID:5427555

Nelson, A W

Wood has been a source of chemicals since the beginning of recorded history. Naval Stores, chestnut for tannic acid, and hardwood chemical wood for destructive distillation producing charcoal, methanol and acetic acid are a few examples. In recent years, wood for the production of pulp, paper and chemical cellulose is now the largest chemical feedstock component. Current awareness of the limitations on the supply of natural gas and petroleum available to us brings to mind the fact that many of the products derived from petroleum can also be derived from wood.

• Research Organization: Champion International Corp., Stamford, Connecticut
• OSTI ID: 5427555
• Journal Information: AIChE Symp. Ser.; (United States), Vol. 76:195; Conference: National Meeting of the American Inst. of Chemical Engineers. 85, Philadelphia, 1978
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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