TAPPI JOURNAL Best Research Paper Award

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.

Submit your research for consideration.

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

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

Recent advances in the commercialization of NIR (near-infrared) based liquor analyzers in the pulping and recovery area

GOPAL A. KRISHNAGOPALAN, HARRY CULLINAN, AND RUSSELL HODGES
November, p. 3