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Slave Lake Pulp Generates Biogas, Saves Money, Paper360º November/December 2019
Slave Lake Pulp Generates Biogas, Saves Money, Paper360º November/December 2019
Journal articles
Magazine articles
Evaluation of novel drum chipper technology: pilot-scale production of short wood chips, TAPPI Journal October 2019
ABSTRACT: Impregnation of wood chips with acidic pulping liquors is improved when using short chip lengths. If the average wood chip length is too short, conventional chipping technology will generate excess small material, such as pin chips and fines. The possibility of using newly developed drum chipping technology to produce short-length wood chips was evaluated with a pilot drum chipper operating at different drum velocities and in-feed angles. With a drum velocity of 30 m/s, the average wood chip lengths and the combined fractions of pin chips and fines were 24 mm and 3.3%, 22 mm and 4.2%, and 17 mm and 8.5%. The highest fractions of total accept chips (large and small accepts), 89% to 90% without screening, were observed for drum velocities of 30•34 m/s and average wood chips lengths of 21•22 mm. The results indicate the potential of drum chipping technology for producing short wood chips with relatively high fractions of accept chips and tolerable fractions of pin chips and fines.
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Exergy and sensibility analysis of each individual effect in a kraft multiple effect evaporator, TAPPI Journal October 2019
ABSTRACT: The multiple effect evaporator (MEE) is an energy intensive step in the kraft pulping process. The exergetic analysis can be useful for locating irreversibilities in the process and pointing out which equipment is less efficient, and it could also be the object of optimization studies. In the present work, each evaporator of a real kraft system has been individually described using mass balance and thermodynamics principles (the first and the second laws). Real data from a kraft MEE were collected from a Brazilian plant and were used for the estimation of heat transfer coefficients in a nonlinear optimization problem, as well as for the validation of the model. An exergetic analysis was made for each effect individually, which resulted in effects 1A and 1B being the least efficient, and therefore having the greatest potential for improvement. A sensibility analysis was also performed, showing that steam temperature and liquor input flow rate are sensible parameters.
Conference papers
Reject Recovery by ZRI Process • an industrial Reffibre-Demo
Reject Recovery by ZRI Process • an industrial Reffibre-Demonstration, 2016 PEERS
Conference papers
Four Tasks, Two Strategies with One Goal: Reliable Fiberglas
Four Tasks, Two Strategies with One Goal: Reliable Fiberglass (FRP) Equipment, 2016 PEERS
Conference papers
Emulsion Cooled Liquor Guns - Splash Plate and Beer Can Nozz
Emulsion Cooled Liquor Guns - Splash Plate and Beer Can Nozzles, 2016 PEERS
Conference papers
Improving Organic Washing in the Pulp Washing Process
Improving Organic Washing in the Pulp Washing Process, 2016 PEERS
Conference papers
QUIKTURN Rapid Dry-out Refractory Concrete for Lime Recovery
QUIKTURN Rapid Dry-out Refractory Concrete for Lime Recovery Kilns, 2016 PEERS
Conference papers
Continuous Precoat Renewal for Lime Mud Filtersand Drive Upg
Continuous Precoat Renewal for Lime Mud Filtersand Drive Upgrade for CPR Systems, 2016 PEERS
Conference papers
Turn?key team designed to minimize or eliminate lost product
Turn?key team designed to minimize or eliminate lost production time AND improve safety, 2016 PEERS