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Great northern paper revitalizes millinocket mill, TAPPI JOURNAL, December 2000, Vol. 83(12)

Great northern paper revitalizes millinocket mill, TAPPI JOURNAL, December 2000, Vol. 83(12)

Pulping of aspen wood in acetic acid media: effect of operating conditions on yield and pulp properties, TAPPI JOURNAL, December 2000, Vol. 83(12)

Pulping of aspen wood in acetic acid media: effect of operating conditions on yield and pulp properties, TAPPI JOURNAL, December 2000, Vol. 83(12)

The business of research: strategies for the future, TAPPI JOURNAL, December 2000, Vol. 83(12)

The business of research: strategies for the future, TAPPI JOURNAL, December 2000, Vol. 83(12)

The forest products industry: a sustainable industry, TAPPI JOURNAL, December 2000, Vol. 83(12)

The forest products industry: a sustainable industry, TAPPI JOURNAL, December 2000, Vol. 83(12)

Influence of voids on the engineering constants of paper part 2: void modeling, TAPPI JOURNAL, December 1994, Vol. 77(12)

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MD microstriations in paper: a two-sided shrinkage phenomenon?, TAPPI JOURNAL April 1989

Wheat straw as an alternative pulp fiber, TAPPI Journal December 2024

Author: Peter W. Hart | TAPPI J. 19(1): 41(2020) - ABSTRACT: The desire to market sustainable packaging materials has led to an interest in the use of various fiber types as a raw material. It has been suggested that the use of annual crops for partial replacement of wood fiber would result in more sustainable products. Several life cycle analyses (LCA) have been performed to evaluate these claims. These LCAs provided conflicting and contradictory results because of the local conditions and the specific pulping processes investigated. Selected LCAs are reviewed and the underlying reasons for these conflicting results are analyzed.

Review of coating cracking and barrier integrity on paperboard substrates, TAPPI JournalDecember 2024

Authors: Joel C. Panek and Peter W. Hart | TAPPI J. 21(11): 589(2022) - ABSTRACT: Barrier packaging formats are major growth areas for the pulp and paper industry. It is technically challenging to maintain barrier properties during converting and end-use applications. Improved manufacturing capabilities and coating formulation knowledge will help maintain barrier integrity and enable growth of barrier products in challenging applications. These improvements will accelerate product development and commercialization, and allow faster response to product performance issues such as cracking. The literature on coating cracking provides knowledge mostly on the effects of coating formulations and to a lesser extent on substrate effects. Despite a large number of publications dedicated to coating failures, the approach to improve coating cracking remains empirical, and the transferability between studies and to real life applications has not been well established. Model development that successfully predicts commercial performance is in its infancy. However, some of these simplified models do a fairly good job predicting experimental data. The current work reviews the state of understanding as regards coating and barrier cracking and highlights the need for more research on cracking and barrier integrity.

Editoral: Investing in the future: Writing and peer-reviewing for TAPPI Journal, TAPPI Journal July 2024

ABSTRACT: Those who actively participate in TAPPI realize how much there is to gain from the networking, educational resources, career development, and other opportunities that come with this involvement. One important opportunity is the ability to share your work and expertise with others in your field, and an excellent way to do this is by taking part in the TAPPI Journal peer-review process, either as an author or a reviewer or both.

Modeling the dynamics of evaporator wash cycles, TAPPI Journal July 2024

ABSTRACT: Kraft pulping is a process that utilizes white liquor, composed of sodium sulfide (Na2S) and sodium hydroxide (NaOH), for wood delignification and pulp production. This process involves washing the dissolved organics and spent chemicals from the pulp, resulting in the generation of black liquor. Prior to its use as fuel in the recovery boiler, the black liquor is concentrated in multiple-effect evaporators. During the evaporation process, the inorganic salts present in the liquor become supersaturated and undergo crystallization. Fluctuations in sodium, carbonate, sulfate, and oxalate can give rise to severe sodium salt scaling events, which significantly impact the thermal efficiency of the evaporators, and ultimately, pulp production. Dynamic modeling provides insights into fluctuations in liquor chemistry in the evaporators. The primary objective of this study was to employ dynamic modeling to evaluate the effects of wash liquor recovery from evaporator wash cycles. The dynamics associated with wash cycles encompass variations in the concentrations of salts and solids in the recovered wash liquor, changes in the flow rate of wash liquor recovery, and fluctuations in liquor volume within the liquor tanks. The dynamic model was developed using Matlab Simulink and applied to the evaporation plant of a pulp mill in South America. By utilizing one month of mill process data, the model enabled the evaluation of fluctuations in liquor chemistry due to evaporator wash cycles. The developed model has demonstrated the potential to estimate the concentration of key ions responsible for scaling and to contribute to enhancements in evaporator washing strategies.