List of Best Paper Award Winners
TAPPI JOURNAL Best Research Paper Award
Announcing the Honghi Tran TAPPI Journal Best Paper Prize
Beginning in 2021, the winning paper of the TAPPI Journal Best Research Paper of the Year will also receive the $2,000 Honghi Tran TAPPI Journal Best Paper Prize which will be presented at TAPPICon.
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2023 - RECOVERY CYCLE
Pilot scale black liquor concentration using pressure driven membrane separation
Sam Rae, Ella V. Richards, Max Kleiman-Lynch, Brent D. Keller, and Brandon I. Macdonald
April, p. 223
2022 NONWOVENS
Microbial load and proliferation associated with various face mask types and sources during the COVID-19 pandemic
S. Narasimhan, M. Balakrishnan, O. James Ayodeji, and S. S. Ramkumar
2022 PAPERBOARD
Review of coating cracking and barrier integrity on paperboard substrates
Joel C. Panek and Peter W. Hart
2021 FOAM ADDITIVES
Application of foamed additives to the surface of wet handsheets
Terry Bliss, Mingxiang Luo, and Matthew Nicholas
January, p. 9
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2020 PAPERBOARD
Creasing severity and reverse-side cracking
Joel C. Panek, Swan D. Smith, and Douglas W. Coffin
April, p.219
2020 RECOVERY CYCLE
Modeling of the energy of a smelt-water explosion in the recovery boiler dissolving tan
Eric Jin, Malcolm Mackenzie, Steve Osborne, and Honghi Tran
August, p.401
2019 KRAFT RECOVERY
The solubility of calcium carbonate in green liquor handling systems
Alisha Giglio, Vladimiros Papangelakis, and Honghi Tran
October, p.595
2018 PAPERMAKING
Rewet in wet pressing of paper
J. David “Dave” McDonald and Richard J. “Dick” Kerekes
September, p. 479
2017 RECYCLING TECHNOLOGY
New automated method for macrocontaminant analysis: Industrial applications
Sylvie Ossard, Patrick Huber, Pascal Borel, Davy Soysouvanh, and Thierry Delagoutte
November, p. 623
2016 PAPERMAKING
Leveraging mill-wide big data sets for process and quality improvement in paperboard production
JIANZHONG FU and PETER W. HART
May, p. 309
2015 NANOFILLLER-PAPER
Facile preparation of nanofiller-paper using mixed office paper without deinking
QIANQIAN WANG and J.Y. ZHU
March, p. 167
2014 DEINKING
Cavitation- jet deinking: A new technology for deinking of recovery papers
SHISEI GOTO, HIROMICHI TSUJI, ISAO ONODERA, KEIGO WATANABE, AND KATSUMASA ONO
September, p. 9
2013 PAPERMAKING
Influence of forming conditions on fiber tilt
David W. Vahey, John M. Considine, and Michael A. Macgregor
April, p. 33
2012 DELIGNIFICATION
Southern pine oxygen delignified pulps produced in a Berty throughflow reactor: How to obtain the highest degree of delignification while maintaining pulp yield and quality
ADRIAAN VAN HEININGEN and YUN JI
March, p. 9
2011 PAPERMAKING
The hyperbolic theory of light scattering, tensile strength, and density in paper
GERARD J.F. (GERRY) RING
November, p. 9
2006 PULP MANUFACTURE
GOPAL A. KRISHNAGOPALAN, HARRY CULLINAN, AND RUSSELL HODGES
November, p. 3