“…5,040 *Elaborated from Smil 1999, (Smil 1999Kim and Dale 2004;FAOSTAT 2016, andLeal et al 2013) **Includes wheat, barley, triticale, oat, and rye ***Cotton stalk and sorghum stalk production values were published in Hurter (2015) Kraft lignin is a by-product of pulp mills generated during the kraft pulping of wood chips, which is the most common chemical pulping method. Currently, approximately 2% of the produced lignin is utilized in value-added and commercial products (paper industries, medical, agriculture, fuel, chemical, concrete and cement, carbon fibers/nanotubes, board binder, dust controller, battery, cosmetics, foams, plastics, and heat), while the rest is burned to generate energy and recover chemicals (Khitrin et al 2012). However, this trend is changing due to the increasing interest in developing lignin-based products.…”