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PROGRAMME FOR ENVIROCELL TRAINING SEMINAR CARBON CHARACTERISATION AND PROFILING FOR PAPERMAKERS It would have been
difficult to envisage a few years ago that a chemical element would be making
headlines around the world for its claimed negative environmental impacts
when that same element is also the basis of life on earth. The element is
carbon and the current obsession is with the impacts of one of its compounds,
namely carbon dioxide, but there are also impacts associated with the myriad
of inorganic and organic carbon compounds, some natural and some man-made, a
large number of which are used in the pulp and paper sector. The aim of this
one day seminar is to put in perspective the issues surrounding carbon
dioxide with those to do with the many other forms of carbon revolving in the
paper cycle. PROGRAMME §
Forms and character of carbon and its compounds -
carbon the element -
carbon combined in organic and inorganic molecules -
environmental impacts from carbon compounds, “good” and “bad” carbon -
carbon embedded in raw materials and products - life cycle carbon profiling and
management. §
Carbon and energy supply -
carbon-containing fuels derived from current and ancient biomass -
renewable and non-renewable energy -
transportation of raw materials and products - zero carbon energy sources. §
Carbon and pulp manufacture -
forms of wood and pulp carbon -
energy use in pulping -
mechanical wood pulps -
chemical wood pulps -
non-wood pulps -
recycled pulps. §
Carbon and non-fibrous papermaking raw materials -
fresh water -
mineral fillers and pigments -
organic additives for product
enhancement -
organic additives
for process control. §
Carbon and papermaking -
energy use -
closing up water systems -
treatment and disposal of wastewaters - treatment and disposal of solid wastes. §
Carbon in paper products -
measuring total carbon footprints -
material recovery of used papers -
energy recovery from used papers - landfill of used
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