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2011 TAPPI Introduction To Wet End Chemistry Course

Product code: 11IWEC
Date: 6/1/2011 to 6/3/2011
Venue: TAPPI Training Room
Location: Norcross, GA USA
Contact: memberconnection@tappi.org
1.800.332.8686 (US); 1.800.446.9431 (Canada); +1.770.446.1400
Fax: +1.770.209.7206

Complete – from Alum to Zeta Potential - TAPPI is offering an essential course for understanding the ways in which chemicals and additives affect your final product:

The TAPPI Introduction to Wet End Chemistry Course.
June 1-3, 2011
Norcross, Ga. USA

This course is designed to help papermakers and suppliers understand the principles of papermaking chemistry and to build a foundation for enhancing product quality and wet end chemistry troubleshooting. Participants will learn to:

• Better understand the effects that chemicals and other additives have on the papermaking process
• Address wet end issues with suppliers
• Make better judgments on selection and use of papermaking chemicals
• Determine viable approaches to problems or opportunities
• Contribute to troubleshooting projects on paper machines

Papermakers who are striving to improve product quality, increase machine productivity, and reduce costs and effective wet end chemistry practices can make a significant contribution toward these goals by attending this course.

Course Overview
The course includes a series of focused case studies, short subject matter presentations, question and answer opportunities, and in-class assignments of follow-up case analysis.

Each course participant will be assigned to a group comprised of six to eight people representing paper mills, suppliers, various experience levels and other backgrounds. Members of each group will be expected to spend up to two hours a day working on assigned case studies and problems. Each group will present their solution to the rest of the class. In addition, each group will develop questions to ask in the general Q&A sessions.

Learning Outcomes
After successfully completing this course, participants should be able to:

• Identify the properties of papermaking furnish and the process components and discuss how they interact to affect wet-end chemistry phenomena.
• Discuss possible solutions to paper machine process and paper quality problems associated with wet end additives and arising from chemical deposits.
• Identify additives that can be used to change the balance of charge for purposes of process control, trouble-shooting and optimization situations.
• Identify the most important factors affecting first-pass retention and the rate of drainage of water from the fiber mat during paper formation.
• Identify classes of wet-end chemical additives that can be used to achieve paper property objectives in various grades.

View the entire curriculum planned in the Proposed Course Schedule.

Meet the Instructor – Dr. Martin Hubbe
Martin A. Hubbe, Ph.D. is a TAPPI Fellow and currently serves as Professor in the Department of Wood and Paper Science at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, N.C., USA. Hubbe graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine, with a B.A. degree in Chemistry. He earned his M.S. from the Institute of Paper Chemistry in Appleton, Wisconsin, and received his Ph. D. from Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y. He began his post-college career with American Cyanamid Corp. as a research associate and continued his corporate work at International Paper Company as a research associate and later principal scientist.

Dr. Hubbe is a member of the American Chemical Society, TAPPI and is a frequent presenter. He wrote and published the TAPPI book Cost-Saving Strategies in Papermaking Chemistry with co-author Kasy King and wrote the introductory chapter of Jose Rodriguez’s TAPPI book Micro and Nano-particles in Papermaking. He has nearly 120 publications to his credit, including books and papers published in professional journals and courses at conferences. He holds five patents.

Who’ll Be Attending With You
This introductory- to intermediate-level course is designed for mill superintendents, development engineers, chemical and process engineers, chemists, process and quality control technicians, and sales and technical service representatives. Participants should have one to five years of paper industry experience and college-level chemistry and math courses are helpful.

What Past Participants Say
When asked in a survey offered after this course, past participants wrote that the TAPPI Introduction to Wet End Chemisty Course enabled them to:

“Improve sizing on high demand systems”
“Contribute to troubleshooting projects on paper machines”
“Improve runnability”
“Recommend chemicals to improve processes”
“Understand what happens upstream”
“Understand wet end chemistry interactions”

Register by May 4, 2011 for savings to reserve your seat.

Groups represent three registrants from the same company. If you have any questions, please contact Mary Beth Cornell at mcornell@tappi.org.

This course will sell out at 25 registrants. After a hiatus of a few years, this course is offered once again and is expected to sell out.

CEUs
TAPPI will award 1.7 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for completion of the curriculum.

The Education Project Center of TAPPI has been reviewed and approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 1620 I Street, NW, Suite 615, Washington, DC 20006. TAPPI will award CEUs to participants who attend and participate in at least 80% of the educational sessions and complete a final program evaluation.

Build Your Library of Knowledge
The following TAPPI Press publications are offered at a discount with your registration.

Cost Saving Strategies in Papermaking Chemistry
$115 – Special Offer
Product Code: 0101R325
Get your copy signed by the author at the course!

Making Pulp & Paper Series: The Paper Machine Wet End
$75 – Special Offer
Product Code: MPP-12

Making Pulp & Paper Series: Wet End Chemistry
$75 – Special Offer
Product Code: MPP-11

Course Venue
TAPPI Training Facility
15 Technology Parkway S.
Norcross, GA 30092 USA

Preferred Hotel
Hilton Atlanta Northeast
5993 Peachtree Industrial Blvd
Norcross, GA 30092
Telephone: 1-770-447-4747
Fax: 1-678-533-3333
Check-In: 3:00pm Check-Out: 12:00pm

Reservations
TAPPI- One Click URL
Hilton Hotel Direct: +1.770.447.4747 - Press 2
Hotel Toll-Free Direct: 1.800.678.4120

TAPPI Corporate Rate: $92/night
Includes: Complimentary internet, parking, and shuttle bus

Hotel Amenities Include: Business Center, ATM, Restaurant and Lounge, Coin Laundry, Gift Shop, Local Transportation, Multi-Lingual Staff, In-Room Safe, In-Room Coffee Maker, Hair Dryer, Ironing Board, Room Service, Fitness Room and Pool.

Directions to the Hilton Hotel

Traveling North on I-85 (From Airport)
Take I-85 North to I-285 West
Exit 31-B from I-285 (Peachtree Industrial Boulevard North)
Follow Peachtree Ind. Blvd. for 5 miles
Take RIGHT fork in highway toward Peachtree Ind. Blvd North
At second traffic light (Peachtree Corners E), make a U-turn
Hilton is on your right side

Traveling South on I-85
Exit I-85 at Jimmy Carter Blvd (exit 99)
Turn Right off of exit
Continue to Peachtree Ind. Blvd and turn right
At second traffic light (Peachtree Corners E), make a U-turn
Hilton is on your right side

Traveling South on I-75
Follow I-75 and take I-285 EAST
Take Exit 31-B from I-285 (Peachtree Industrial Boulevard North)
Follow Peachtree Ind. Blvd. for 5 miles
Take RIGHT fork in highway toward Peachtree Ind. Blvd North
At second traffic light (Peachtree Corners E), make a U-turn
Hilton is on your right side

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Cancellation Policy
If you find that you have to cancel, your full registration fee will be refunded if TAPPI’s Registration Department receives written notification (fax acceptable at 1-770-209-7206) by May 4, 2011. Please note, there will be a 50% refund for all written cancellations made after May 4, 2011, but no later than 5 business days prior to the start of the conference May 25, 2011. Understandably, after May 25, 2011, no refunds can be issued. Substitutions, however, will be accepted any time without a penalty.