@article{anantharamaiah_verenich_pourdeyhimi_2009, title={Durable nonwoven fabrics via fracturing bicomponent Islands-in-the-Sea filaments}, volume={9}, number={2}, journal={AATCC Review}, author={Anantharamaiah, N. and Verenich, S. and Pourdeyhimi, B.}, year={2009}, pages={41–47} } @article{paul_verenich_pourdeyhimi_2008, title={Blending polypropylene with glycidyl methacrylate-containing polymer to improve adhesion to elastomers}, volume={57}, ISSN={["0959-8103"]}, DOI={10.1002/pi.2434}, abstractNote={Abstract}, number={8}, journal={POLYMER INTERNATIONAL}, author={Paul, Shreya and Verenich, Svetlana and Pourdeyhimi, Behnam}, year={2008}, month={Aug}, pages={975–981} } @article{arumugam_verenich_shim_pourdeyhimi_2007, title={Pretreatment of bleached cotton fibers with whole and Monocomponent cellulases for nonwoven applications}, volume={77}, DOI={10.1177/0040517507078807}, abstractNote={ Enzymatic treatment of fabrics has been carried out in the past to enhance the aesthetic properties, which has often resulted in the reduction of fabric strength. The objective of the current investigation was to develop process recipes for the production of soft and strong nonwoven fabric from enzymatically treated cotton fibers. Two different enzymatic solutions, the whole cellulase and Cellulose Binding Domain (CBD)-free monocomponent endoglucanase, were selected for this purpose. The latter was used as potential enzyme solution that could reduce the fiber strength loss during hydrolysis. This paper discusses the changes in reducing power, protein adsorption, surface properties and single fiber tenacity of bleached cotton fibers and compares with those obtained with raw cotton treated at identical conditions. The results observed in this study showed that bleached cotton was less susceptible to damage and weakening than raw cotton fibers. Thus, the aggressive whole cellulase is more suitable for treatment of bleached cotton fibers, whereas CBDfree endoglucanase is sufficient for treatment of raw cotton fibers. }, number={10}, journal={Textile Research Journal}, author={Arumugam, K. and Verenich, S. and Shim, Eunkyoung and Pourdeyhimi, B.}, year={2007}, pages={734–742} } @article{fedorova_verenich_pourdeyhimi_2007, title={Strength optimization of thermally bonded spunbond nonwovens}, volume={2}, number={1}, journal={Journal of Engineered Fibers and Fabrics}, author={Fedorova, N. and Verenich, S. and Pourdeyhimi, B.}, year={2007}, pages={38–48} } @article{verenich_roosalu_hautaniemi_laari_kallas_2005, title={Kinetic modeling of the promoted and unpromoted wet oxidation of debarking evaporation concentrates}, volume={108}, ISSN={["1873-3212"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.cej.2005.01.003}, abstractNote={In the present study, the wet oxidation (WO) of a debarking evaporation concentrate was studied at a temperature range of 383–473 K. To improve the oxidative process, the pH level of the wastewater was in some experiments set to 13 using a sodium hydroxide solution. Additionally, in some experiments H2O2, in amounts of 0.2 g per 1 g of COD was introduced into the reaction system as a promoter. All three cases, unpromoted WO, hydrogen peroxide promoted WO and WO in alkaline media, were modeled. In order to explain the experimental data, the model by Verenich and Kallas [S. Verenich, J. Kallas, Wet oxidation of concentrated wastewaters: the kinetic modelling, in: Proceedings of the IWA 2nd International Conference on Oxidation Technologies for Water and Wastewater Treatment, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany, 2000] was modified and the kinetic parameters, the activation energies and frequency factors, were estimated along with the sensitivity analysis, a study on the cross-correlation and identification of the parameters. The recast model explains the experimental data well. The addition of hydrogen peroxide reduced the activation energies of the oxidative reactions.}, number={1-2}, journal={CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL}, author={Verenich, S and Roosalu, K and Hautaniemi, M and Laari, A and Kallas, J}, year={2005}, month={Apr}, pages={101–108} }