Environmental performance assessment for pulp and paper enterprises: promising waste utilization options

Lichutina, T. F.; Боголицын, К. Г.

doi:10.1134/s1070363212050398

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“…Compounds such as hydrogen sulfide, dimethyl sulfide, and dimethyl disulfide are emitted naturally from the ocean, soil, plants as well as in geothermal and volcanic activity . VSCs are also released in industrial processes, including pulp and paper , textile, refinery and petrochemical , tanning , biotechnology and pharmaceutical , brewing, biogas and food industries. Industrial effluents rich in organosulfur compounds pose a significant problem to the environment.…”

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New procedure for the control of the treatment of industrial effluents to remove volatile organosulfur compounds

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We present a new procedure for the determination of volatile organosulfur compounds in samples of industrial effluents using dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction and gas chromatography with flame photometric detection. Initially, the extraction parameters were optimized. These included: type and volume of extraction solvent, volume of disperser solvent, salting out effect, pH, time and speed of centrifugation as well as extraction time. The procedure was validated for 30 compounds. The developed procedure has low detection limits of 0.0071-0.49 μg/L and a good precision (relative standard deviation values of 1.2-5.0 and 0.6-4.1% at concentrations of 1 and 10 μg/L, respectively). The procedure was used to determine the content of volatile organosulfur compounds in samples of effluents from the production of bitumens before and after chemical treatment, in which six compounds were identified, including 2-mercaptoethanol, thiophenol, thioanisole, dipropyl disulfide, 1-decanethiol, and phenyl isothiocyanate at concentrations ranging from 0.47 to 8.89 μg/L. Problems in the determination of organosulfur compounds related to considerable changes in composition of the effluents, increase in concentration of individual compounds and appearance of secondary pollutants during effluent treatment processes are also discussed.

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New procedure for the control of the treatment of industrial effluents to remove volatile organosulfur compounds

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“…Other compounds such as 3‐methyl pyrazine are also attractive to several species (Nevitt et al, 2004). Dimethyl sulfide and other volatile sulfur compounds that are potentially attractive to seabirds (Nevitt, 2008) are also produced by pulp and paper mills (both aerosolized and in wastewater effluent; Lichutina et al, 2012; Giri et al, 2014), sewage and sewage treatment plants (Giri et al, 2014; Glindemann et al, 2006), biomass burning (Meinardi et al, 2003), marine microplastics (Savoca et al, 2016), and other sources (Guo et al, 2010). Many procellariiforms are also unsurprisingly highly attracted to fish offal and oils (e.g., Hutchison & Wenzel, 1980; Nevitt et al, 1995; Nevitt et al, 2004), which can be suspended and discharged in wastewater of fish processing plants if it is not adequately treated (Chowdhury et al, 2010; de Melo Ribeiro & Naval, 2019; Islam et al, 2004).…”

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A path forward in the investigation of seabird strandings attributed to light attraction

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A variety of anthropogenic threats cause mortality and population declines of procellariiform seabirds. Globally, fledglings of many colonial procellariiforms become stranded in towns and cities during their first flights from the nest, which occur at night. Since the 1960s, when the phenomenon became widely known, these strandings have been largely attributed to attraction toward artificial lights at night (ALAN). Artificial light attraction has been blamed due to the predictable, annual nature of strandings; the large numbers of birds found in lighted areas during stranding events; and the inexperience of fledglings in interpreting sensory stimuli. However, up‐to‐date, few alternative hypotheses to that of light attraction have been suggested, and few if any have been explored experimentally. In this paper, we do not seek to refute the light attraction hypothesis. Instead, our objectives are threefold. We wish to (1) highlight the current evidence for light attraction in procellariiforms; (2) identify where evidence may be lacking or subject to confirmation bias; and (3) suggest alternative hypotheses and possible experimental approaches to study them. Given the imperiled nature of many of the affected species and the need to explore and address this source of mortality, our goal in this review is to accelerate and diversify research efforts on this topic.

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“…An environmental performance evaluation system specially designed for this industry is needed, but relevant research still has much room left for further development on index selection. A large quantity of waste gas and water is produced in the pulp and paper process (Wu & Zhang, 2020), so air and water pollutants discharge indexes such as the emission of carbon oxides, nitrogen oxides, Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), and so forth are usually considered in the previous research (Hermann et al, 2007; Lichutina et al, 2012). Water consumption as an input index is always taken into account when studying the eco‐efficiency of this industry (Chang et al, 2016).…”

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The differential impacts of coercive pressure from environmental law and proactive environmental strategy on corporate environmental performance: The case study of a pulp and paper company

Xie

2022

Corp Soc Responsibility Env

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Pulp and paper companies are characterized by high-energy consumption and high-emission in production, placing a heavy burden on the environment. Exploring ways to improve their environmental performance is urgently needed. External coercive pressure from environmental law and internal proactive environmental strategy both enable companies to perform better, but little is known about the difference between them. To close this knowledge gap, our analysis is conducted on a case company in pulp and paper industry to compare the differential impacts of the New Environmental Protection Law of China and the proactive environmental strategy on its environmental performance. In addition, accurately evaluating the environmental performance of pulp and paper companies is essential while research on this topic is scant. Therefore, a novel environmental performance evaluation system for pulp and paper companies (EPESPP) is constructed, including not only internal but also external evaluation indexes based on news reports of various media measured by SNOWNLP sentiment analysis. According to the system, the environmental performance of the case company from 2010 to 2018 is evaluated by the entropy-weight-based catastrophe progression method (EWCPM). The results of our case study show that the implementation of a proactive environmental strategy is more conducive to comprehensively improving corporate environmental performance. In other words, the driving effect of the New Environmental Protection Law is not as strong as that of the proactive environmental strategy.

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Environmental performance assessment for pulp and paper enterprises: promising waste utilization options

Cited by 6 publications

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New procedure for the control of the treatment of industrial effluents to remove volatile organosulfur compounds

New procedure for the control of the treatment of industrial effluents to remove volatile organosulfur compounds

A path forward in the investigation of seabird strandings attributed to light attraction

The differential impacts of coercive pressure from environmental law and proactive environmental strategy on corporate environmental performance: The case study of a pulp and paper company

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