A know-how for producing paper from cotton stalks has been developed on the Northern Arctic Federal College (NAFU) in Arkhangelsk, Russia, the college introduced. The event was carried out by a graduate scholar from Uzbekistan, Ismoil Sodikov, who introduced the uncooked supplies (cotton vegetation) from his homeland, which is a former Soviet republic.
“Pulp could be produced from any fibrous uncooked materials. That’s how I got here up with the thought of creating for my nation (Uzbekistan) a paper manufacturing system from cotton stalks utilizing know-how that might not require the development of enormous factories,” the scientist defined how he got here to this profitable realization.
He defined that “in Uzbekistan the pulp and paper business can’t exist on the identical scale as in Arkhangelsk and in Russia as an entire, as a result of there aren’t any forests there, however cotton is not any much less precious uncooked materials (for paper manufacturing) than many kinds of wooden. It’s doable to provide paper by acquiring fibers “polyfabricated from cotton stems and on this approach, the mandatory paper in Uzbekistan could be partially ensured,” explains Sodikov, who has simply began engaged on it.
The manufacturing of paper from cotton stems presently solves the issue of the utilization of cotton stems and the scarcity of uncooked supplies for the paper business in international locations with a developed agricultural economic system.
Cotton stems look considerably like willow branches – in winter they’re utilized by native residents for heating or for fodder for home animals, however many of the stems are left within the subject in the summertime. Uzbekistan is a textile nation, and it is usually one of many leaders in cotton provides to different international locations.
The present analysis of the scientific collaborator is a part of the larger-scale efforts of the Innovation and Expertise Middle “Trendy Applied sciences for Processing Bioresources of the North” on the College of Agricultural Sciences to search out new kinds of uncooked supplies and develop applied sciences for acquiring supplies for the manufacturing of paper and cardboard.
On this regard, Hatalia Shcherbak, head of the Division of Pulp and Paper and Chemical Manufacturing on the Former Faculty of Pure Sources and Applied sciences of the State Agricultural College, feedback that “in Astrakhan throughout the Soviet period there was a plant that produced wood-fiber boards from reeds, and this constructing materials was in demand on the native market.” In keeping with her, “outdated concepts are actually being revived, reworked for brand spanking new circumstances, as a result of there are new kinds of tools, chemical compounds, stricter environmental necessities, and there’s a nice demand for contemporary kinds of supplies.”
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