Everything about Deinking

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: DeinkingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Understanding the complexity of deinking plastic waste: An assessment of the efficiency of different treatments to remove ink resins from printed plastic filmInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Deinking of paperThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Biochar from pyrolysis of deinking paper sludge and its use in the treatment of a nickel polluted soilCited 110 times
5. Go sideways: Stickies (papermaking)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Froth flotationA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Biochar from pyrolysis of deinking paper sludge and its use in the treatment of a nickel polluted soil

  A. Méndez, J. Paz-Ferreiro, F. Araujo · 2014 · Journal of Analytical and Applied Pyrolysis · 110 citations

• Production of thermo-alkali-stable laccase and xylanase by co-culturing of Bacillus sp. and B. halodurans for biobleaching of kraft pulp and deinking of waste paper

  Vijaya Gupta, Shruti Garg, Neena Capalash · 2014 · Bioprocess and Biosystems Engineering · 108 citations

• Production of cellulolytic enzymes by Aspergillus fumigatus ABK9 in wheat bran-rice straw mixed substrate and use of cocktail enzymes for deinking of waste office paper pulp

  Arpan Das, Tanmay Paul, Suman K. Halder · 2013 · Bioresource Technology · 85 citations

• Role of various enzymes for deinking paper: a review

  Arunika Saxena, Prakram Singh Chauhan · 2016 · Critical Reviews in Biotechnology · 82 citations

• Column Flotation Deinking: State-of-the-art and opportunities

  Subhashini Vashisth, Chad P.J. Bennington, John R. Grace · 2011 · Resources, Conservation and Recycling · 79 citations

• Heavy metal fractionation during the co-composting of biosolids, deinking paper fibre and green waste

  S. Tandy, J.R. Healey, M.A. Nason · 2009 · Bioresource Technology · 77 citations

• Energy and resource utilization of deinking sludge pyrolysis

  Rui Lou, Shubin Wu, Gaojin Lv · 2012 · Applied Energy · 75 citations

• Sustainable utilization of deinking paper mill sludge for the manufacture of building bricks

  S.K. Singh, Shilpa Kulkarni, Vivek Kumar · 2018 · Journal of Cleaner Production · 74 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Understanding the complexity of deinking plastic waste: An assessment of the efficiency of different treatments to remove ink resins from printed plastic film

  Sibel Ügdüler, Tine Van Laere, Tobias De Somer · 2023 · Journal of Hazardous Materials · 33 citations

• Biological approach in deinking of waste paper using bacterial cellulase as an effective enzyme catalyst

  T. Indumathi, Rita Jayaraj, P. Senthil Kumar · 2022 · Chemosphere · 30 citations

• Optimization of endoglucanase-lipase-amylase enzyme consortium from Thermomyces lanuginosus VAPS25 using Multi-Objective genetic algorithm and their bio-deinking applications

  Mandeep Dixit, Deepak Chhabra, Pratyoosh Shukla · 2023 · Bioresource Technology · 26 citations

• Energy Recovery from Waste Paper and Deinking Sludge to Support the Demand of the Paper Industry: A Numerical Analysis

  Simona Di Fraia, M. Rakib Uddin · 2022 · Sustainability · 26 citations

• Improved deinking and biobleaching efficiency of enzyme consortium from Thermomyces lanuginosus VAPS25 using genetic Algorithm-Artificial neural network based tools

  Mandeep Dixit, Guddu Kumar Gupta, Monika Yadav · 2022 · Bioresource Technology · 24 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• 📕Deinking of paperClarence J. West · 1943
• Recycled fiber and deinking · 2000
• 📕Deinking of waste paperTechnical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. · 1956
• 📕Deinking of wastepaperTechnical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industry. Deinking Committee. · 1967
• Recycled Fiber DecontaminationSteve Paraskevas · 2006
• 📕1993 Deinking Short CourseDeinking Short Course (1993 Indianapolis, Ind.) · 1993

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