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Biomechanical pulping with phlebiopsis gigantea reduced energy, TAPPI JOURNAL, September 2000, Vol. 83(9)
Biomechanical pulping with phlebiopsis gigantea reduced energy, TAPPI JOURNAL, September 2000, Vol. 83(9)
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Design and operation of a woodwaste cogeneration plant, TAPPI JOURNAL, September 2000, Vol. 83(9)
Design and operation of a woodwaste cogeneration plant, TAPPI JOURNAL, September 2000, Vol. 83(9)
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Impulse drying of board grades; pilot production trials, TAPPI JOURNAL, September 2000, Vol. 83(9)
Impulse drying of board grades; pilot production trials, TAPPI JOURNAL, September 2000, Vol. 83(9)
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Control and optimization of mechanical pulping systems, TAPPI JOURNAL, September 2000, Vol. 83(9)
Control and optimization of mechanical pulping systems, TAPPI JOURNAL, September 2000, Vol. 83(9)
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Computational modelling of paper drying machines, TAPPI JOURNAL, September 2000, Vol. 83(9)
Computational modelling of paper drying machines, TAPPI JOURNAL, September 2000, Vol. 83(9)
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Improved deinking and stickies removal
Improved deinking and stickies removal, TAPPI JOURNAL November 2017
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Editorial: Innovative oxygen delignification: Conversations with the TAPPI Journal 2012 Best Research Paper Award-winning authors, TAPPI JOURNAL June 2013
Editorial: Innovative oxygen delignification: Conversations with the TAPPI Journal 2012 Best Research Paper Award-winning authors, TAPPI JOURNAL June 2013
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Temperature profile measurement applications of moving webs and roll structures with intelligent roll embedded sensor technology
ABSTRACT: An intelligent roll for sheet and roll cover temperature profiles is a mechatronic system consisting of a roll in a web handling machine that is also used as a transducer for sensing cross-machine direction (CD) profiles. The embedded temperature sensor strips are mounted under or inside the roll cover, covering the full width of the roll’s cross-dimensional length. The sensor system offers new opportunities for online temperature measurement through exceptional sensitivity and resolution, without adding external measurement devices. The measurement is contacting, making it free from various disturbances affecting non-contacting temperature measurements, and it can show the roll cover’s internal temperatures. This helps create applications that have been impossible with traditional technology, with opportunities for process control and condition monitoring. An application used for process analysis services without adding a roll cover is made with “iRoll Portable Temperature” by mounting the sensor on the shell in a helical arrangement with special taping. The iRoll Temperature sensors are used for various purposes, depending on the application. The two main targets are the online temperature profile measurement of the moving web and the monitoring of the roll covers’ internal temperatures. The online sheet temperature profile has its main utilization in optimizing moisture profiles and drying processes. This enables the removal of speed and runnability bottlenecks by detecting inadequate drying capacity across the sheet CD width, the monitoring condition of the drying equipment, the optimization of drying energy consumption, the prevention of unnecessary over-drying, the optimization of the float drying of coating colors, and the detection of reasons for moisture profile errors. This paper describes this novel technology and its use cases in the paper, board, and tissue industry, but the application can be extended to pulp drying and industries outside pulp and paper, such as the converting and manufacture of plastic films.
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Kraft recovery boiler operation with splash plate and/or beer can nozzles — a case study, TAPPI Journal October 2021
ABSTRACT: In this work, we study a boiler experiencing upper furnace plugging and availability issues. To improve the situation and increase boiler availability, the liquor spray system was tuned/modified by testing different combinations of splash plate and beer can nozzles. While beer cans are typically used in smaller furnaces, in this work, we considered a furnace with a large floor area for the study. The tested cases included: 1) all splash plate nozzles (original operation), 2) all beer can nozzles, and 3) splash plate nozzles on front and back wall and beer cans nozzles on side walls. We found that operating according to Case 3 resulted in improved overall boiler operation as compared to the original condition of using splash plates only. Additionally, we carried out computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modeling of the three liquor spray cases to better understand the furnace behavior in detail for the tested cases. Model predictions show details of furnace combus-tion characteristics such as temperature, turbulence, gas flow pattern, carryover, and char bed behavior. Simulation using only the beer can nozzles resulted in a clear reduction of carryover. However, at the same time, the predicted lower furnace temperatures close to the char bed were in some locations very low, indicating unstable bed burning. Compared to the first two cases, the model predictions using a mixed setup of splash plate and beer can nozzles showed lower carryover, but without the excessive lowering of gas temperatures close to the char bed.
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Corrosion damage and in-service inspection of retractable sootblower lances in recovery boilers, TAPPI Journal October 2021
ABSTRACT: Several reports of accidents involving serious mechanical failures of sootblower lances in chemical recovery boilers are known in the pulp and paper industry. These accidents mainly consisted of detachment and ejection of the lance tip, or even of the entire lance, to the inside of the furnace, towards the opposite wall. At least one of these cases known to the author resulted in a smelt-water explosion in the boiler.In other events, appreciable damage or near-miss conditions have already been experienced. The risk of catastrophic consequences of the eventual detachment of the lance tip or the complete lance of a recovery boiler soot-blower has caught the attention of manufacturers, who have adjusted their quality procedures, but this risk also needs to be carefully considered by the technical staff at pulp mills and in industry committees.This paper briefly describes the failure mechanisms that prevailed in past accidents, while recommending inspection and quality control policies to be applied in order to prevent further occurrences of these dangerous and costly component failures. Digital radiography, in conjunction with other well known inspection techniques, appears to be an effective means to ensure the integrity of sootblower lances in chemical recovery boilers used in the pulp and paper industry.