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Pattern recognition and other chemometrical techniques are
important tools in interpreting environmental data. This volume
presents authoritatively state-of-the-art applications of measuring
and handling environmental data. The chapters are written by
leading experts.
The oil crisis during the 1970s turned interest towards the
utilization of renewable resources and towards lignocellulosics in
particular. The 1970s were also the cradle period of biotechnology,
and the years when biotechnical utilization of lignocellulosic
waste from agriculture and forestry gained priori ty. This was a
logical conclusion since one of nature's most important biologi cal
reactions is the conversion of wood and other lignocellulosic
materials to carbon dioxide, water and humic substances. However,
while biotechnology in other areas like medicine and pharmacology
concerned production of expen sive products on a small scale,
biotechnical utilization and conversion of ligno cellulosics meant
production of inexpensive products on a large scale. Biotechnical
utilization of lignocellulosic materials is therefore a very
difficult task, and the commercial utilization of this technology
has not progressed as rapidly as one would have desired. One reason
for this was the lack of basic knowledge of enzyme mechanisms
involved in the degradation and conversion of wood, other
lignocellulosics and their individual components. There are also
risks associated with initiating a technical development before a
stable platform of knowledge is available. Several of the projects
started with en thusiasm have therefore suffered some loss of
interest. Also contributing to this failing interest is the fact
that the oil crisis at the time was not a real one. At present,
nobody predicts a rapid exhaustion of the oil resources and fuel
production from lignocellulosics is no longer a high priority."
This collection of comprehensive reviews describes the present
knowledge of the enzyme mechanisms involved in the biodegradation
of wood and wood components, cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin
by both fungi and bacteria. The extensive knowledge, presented in
this volume, was developed in laboratories world-wide over the last
few decades and constitutes the foundation for present and future
biotechnology in the pulp and paper industry.
This collection of comprehensive reviews describes the present
knowledge of the enzyme mechanisms involved in the biodegradation
of wood and wood components, cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin
by both fungi and bacteria. The extensive knowledge, presented in
this volume, was developed in laboratories world-wide over the last
few decades and constitutes the foundation for present and future
biotechnology in the pulp and paper industry.
Pattern recognition and other chemometrical techniques are
important tools in interpreting environmental data. This volume
presents authoritatively state-of-the-art applications of measuring
and handling environmental data. The chapters are written by
leading experts.
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