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Chemometric investigation on structural changes in pine kraft lignin during pulping

Petteri MalkavaaraRaimo AlénP HarjulaJuha Knuutinen

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Kraft ligninbiologyChemistryProcess Chemistry and TechnologyfungiScots pinefood and beveragesKappa numberPulp and paper industrybiology.organism_classificationcomplex mixturesComputer Science ApplicationsAnalytical ChemistryPinus <genus>chemistry.chemical_compoundKraft processPrincipal component analysisPrincipal component regressionLigninSpectroscopySoftware

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Abstract Various structural changes which take place in dissolved lignin during the laboratory-scale kraft pulping of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris) were studied. Lignin samples were subjected to the alkaline cupric oxide oxidation and the analytical data further processed by various multivariate chemometric techniques (principal component analysis, PCA; principal component regression, PCR; and projection to latent structures, PLS). Several models applicable to the indirect measurement of common pine kraft pulp properties (i.e., total cooking yield, kappa number and ISO brightness) were produced.

https://doi.org/10.1016/s0169-7439(00)00090-3