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WO/2005/024125A1
A process for removing silica from nonwood plant materials involving both chemical and mechanical action is described. The silica-rich epidermal cells are liberated mechanically by a pre-pulping and low-consistency refining step and subs...  
WO/2005/021714A2
The invention provides laccases, polynucleotides encoding these enzymes, the use of such polynucleotides and polypeptides. In one aspect, the invention relates to the enzymatic production of nootkatone by way of the conversion of valence...  
WO/2005/018435A2
A thermally modified microbial-derived cellulose material is described for use as an implantable material in general surgery, plastic surgery and neurosurgery.  
WO/2005/012632A1
High-quality recycled pulp of high whiteness with reduced ink residue is produced by, in the process for recycling waste paper, detaching ink by the use of force selectively acting on fiber surface while inhibiting damaging of fibers. Fu...  
WO/2005/010273A1
A method of providing papermaking fibers with durable curl comprising: a) introducing papermaking fiber into a rotatable drum adapted for operation at elevated pressure; b) rotating the drum containing the papermaking fiber while maintai...  
WO/2005/007968A1
A method of recovering a constituent of a board material comprised of a matrix of adhesively bonded lignocellulosic elements, the method comprising subjecting the material to a combination of (i) electromagnetic radiation and (ii) soakin...  
WO/2005/001195A1
A new method for making pulp out of agricultural residue includes harvesting certain portion of plant stalk. The harvested plant stalk is bailed, transported and stored. At the mill, the plant stalk is chopped and goes through pulping pr...  
WO/2004/101889A2
Methods for reducing energy required for a pulp refining processes by treating a mechanical pulp with a hemicellulase composition are presented. The enzymatic treatment can be carried out at a temperature of from about 10 degree C to abo...  
WO/2004/094718A1
A deinking agent which comprises a compound having a C7-23 aliphatic hydrocarbon group, an oxyethylene group, and an oxypropylene group and/or oxybutylene group and having a degree of biodegradation of 60% or higher and an average molecu...  
WO/2004/094624A1
The invention relates to methods for the isolation and development of fungi useful in the enhancement of wood or wood products quality and/or wood or wood products processing, and the decay fungi so developed. Compositions comprising or ...  
WO/2004/092479A2
The invention relates to processes for treating a pulp, and for making a paper material such as paper, cardboard, linerboard, corrugated paperboard, tissue, towels, corrugated containers, boxes etc., these processes comprising an alkalin...  
WO/2004/092478A1
The invention concerns a method for the pretreatment of chips that are fed to a sulphate cooking process. Through acidification of the chips in an acidic treatment fluid with a subsequent draining of free treatment fluid before subsequen...  
WO/2004/085735A1
Methods for bleaching cellulosic material such as cotton and wood pulp involve contacting the cellulosic material with a peroxide, oxygen or ozone bleaching agent, in the presence of a substituted guanadine-based additive. The substitute...  
WO/2004/083520A1
The present invention relates to an environment friendly, safe, and efficient four-step method of bio-bleaching Kraft pulp using bacterial strains of accession no. MTCC 5096, MTCC 5094, MTCC 5095, and MTCC 5098, a microbial consortium co...  
WO/2004/061224A1
A paper pulp is produced from a non-woodlike lignocellulose-containing biomass and has the following characteristics: the proportion of holocellulose is greater than 90 percent by mass with regard to the dry mass of the paper pulp; the p...  
WO/2004/050985A1
The present invention concerns a method for decreasing the amount of wood extractives in wood chips. According to the method, nitrogen is added to the wood chips in a form suitable for the micro-organisms occuring naturally in the wood c...  
WO/2004/050986A1
Said process used to obtain, in industrial scale, wet sheets and membranes of bacterial cellulose of high purity and specific physical and chemical properties, using the appropriate culture medium that is prepared in a mechanical mixer f...  
WO/2004/048680A2
Continuous flotation deinking of waste paper under alkaline conditions may not satisfactorily remove hydrophilic and water-soluble printing inks. The invention solves that problem by a two-stage flotation method. An alkaline flotation st...  
WO/2004/041995A1
According to one embodiment of the invention, a system (100) for processing biomass includes a water-impermeable bottom liner, a gravel layer (104) supported by the bottom liner (102), a drain pipe (106) disposed within the gravel layer ...  
WO/2004/040060A1
Environmental friendliness and biodegradability are important considerations of disposable materials, be it packaging or paper, in order to minimize environmental damage. The present invention relates to a method of producing environment...  
WO/2004/039969A1
A novel cellulase having an amino acid sequence derived from the amino acid sequence of cellulase NCE5 by substitution of the amino acid residues at the 162- and/or 166-positions by amino acids different from those of cellulase NCE5; a p...  
WO/2004/034765A2
A method of increasing the conductivity of water by mixing sodium benzoate with tap water at various concentrations. A sodium benzoate solution, in low doses is not toxic and can be consumed by humans and animals. Some embodiments of thi...  
WO/2004/027033A2
The present invention provides lentiviral vectors that are useful in human gene therapy for inherited or acquired proliferative ocular disease. It furnishes methods to exploit the ability of lentiviral vectors to transduce both mitotical...  
WO/2004/022842A1
A method of producing mechanical pulp, comprising impregn ation of fiber material with an enzyme-containing aqueous liquid prior to defibration and refining of the fiber material to produce a mechanical pulp. According to the invention, ...  
WO/2004/020617A1
It is intended to provide means of efficiently, economically and conveniently dyeing fibers or hair, bleaching pulp or fibers, removing phenol compounds from liquid wastes, degrading endocrine disruptors, producing phenolic resins, produ...  
WO/2004/020733A1
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for automatically defibering and extracting kraft pulp from old corrugated cardboards. The apparatus includes a) a pulper (1) for crushing, separating and defibering old corrugated...  
WO/2004/011717A1
A method of deinking printed paper comprises pulping the paper to form an aqueous slurry, adding a deinking additive to the paper, and removing detached ink by flotation, wherein the additive comprises an organo-modified siloxane compris...  
WO/2004/003289A1
The invention provides a process for producing mechanical pulp from vegetative matter. The process comprises using high pressure fluid jets to break apart the vegetative matter into small particles and to further reduce the size of the p...  
WO/2003/102296A1
The invention concerns a method for the production of cellulose pulp, in which wood raw material that principally comprises softwood, preferably in the form of cut wood chips, is treated in several stages in various treatment steps, wher...  
WO/2003/095737A1
A method of producing a high quality paper pulp slurry from high silica content agricultural waste material. The method includes combining the agricultural waste materials with a chemical composition to form a mixture, cooking (21) the m...  
WO/2003/085191A1
The invention relates to de-inking agents which contain a homopolymer or a copolymer which is based on acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, maleic acid and/or the ester, nitrile, or amide derivatives thereof in a partially or fully neutralise...  
WO/2003/083208A1
The present invention refers to a process for bleaching lignocellulose-containing pulp comprising pulp obtainable from lignocellulose-containing materials selected from the group consisting of non-wood with a peroxide-containing compound...  
WO/2003/074780A1
The present invention discloses methods of bleaching chemical pulp that use xylanase enzymes after chemical bleaching. The method comprises the steps of carrying out a chlorine dioxide stage to produce a partially bleached pulp, treating...  
WO/2003/071024A2
The invention concerns a novel method for ozone treatment of used paper which consists in transforming used paper into pulp in an aqueous medium, screening then de-inking said paper by liquid flotation, the method further comprising an o...  
WO/2003/070940A1
A method of treating woodchips which comprises: the step of preparing a DNA encoding an antisense RNA which is substantially complementary to the whole transcription product of a basidiomycete-origin cellulose digesting enzyme gene or a ...  
WO/2003/070939A1
It is intended to provide a promoter for highly producing ligninase in a bacidiomycetous host, a host-vector system containing this promoter, a process for highly producing ligninase with the use of this system, and a method of processin...  
WO/2003/061550A2
An oxidation and/or bleaching system is disclosed, comprising: a) oxidoreductases such as laccases and/or peroxidases applied individually or in combination, in the presence of the corresponding co-substrate 02, H202, organic peroxides, ...  
WO/2003/056103A1
A high strength material or formed product comprising 65 to 100 wt % of a cellulose micro-fibril; and a high strength product comprising the above material and/or formed product. The above material, which is lightweight and also exhibits...  
WO/2003/052105A1
Cellulase preparations containing endoglucanase originating in Zygomycetes, proteins lacking the cellulose-binding domain thereof, modified proteins thereof or homologs thereof together with a reducing agent. A method of processing a cel...  
WO/2003/052201A1
The invention relates to a method of bleaching high-quality paper pulps, which are obtained from herbaceous or shrub plants (flax, hemp and kenaf, among others), using a lacasse-type ligninolytic enzyme in the presence of redox mediators...  
WO/2003/048449A1
The present invention discloses methods of bleaching chemical pulp that combine xylanase enzymes with hydrogen peroxide, peracids, or a mixture. The method comprises the steps of carrying out a chemical pulping operation, optionally foll...  
WO/2003/047826A1
A method of manufacturing a fiberboard or a similar wood-based product. The method comprises providing a lignocellulosic material, contacting the lignocellulosic material with an activating agent to produce a modified lignocellulosic mat...  
WO/2003/046169A2
The present invention provides a xylanase, or a modified xylanase enzyme comprising at least one substituted amino acid residue at a position selected from the group consisting of amino acid 11, 116, 118, 144 and 161, the position determ...  
WO/2003/040462A1
A method of producing pulp for use in making paper products using microwave radiation to pretreat the source of pulp prior to further processing. Practising the method of the invention results in substantial energy savings while decreasi...  
WO/2003/035972A1
The use of fatty acid oxidizing enzymes in the manufacture of paper materials, such as paper, linerboard, corrugated paperboard, tissue, towels, corrugated containers and boxes. Examples of fatty acid oxidizing enzymes are oxygenases cla...  
WO/2003/035970A1
A method for treating diverse pulp and paper materials, including such products contained in municipal solid waste and biohazardous wastes, to produce a homogenous cellulosic product comprises the steps of feeding diverse pulp and paper ...  
WO/2003/031717A1
The invention relates to a method of separating colouring agents, particularly printing ink, from recycled fibre material, in which method the recycled fibre material is defibered using a liquid, so that colouring agent is separated from...  
WO/2003/023133A1
A process of oxidizing a substrate is disclosed. The process comprising the step of treating the substrate with an oxidizing enzyme, a mediator that enhances the oxidative activity of the enzyme, and a chain transfer agent. In one exampl...  
WO/2003/023142A1
A two-component mediator system is disclosed, wherein one component serves as a pro-oxidant and the other component serves as a pro-degradant and booster. When used in combination with a laccase, the two-component mediators enhance the b...  
WO/2003/023043A1
New mediators for use in laccase-mediator systems (LMS) are disclosed. The mediators enhance the activity of enzymes exhibiting laccase activity and can be used, for example, to bleach a dye in solution, to oxidize an appropriate compoun...  

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