Fundamental Advances and Innovations in the Pulp and Paper Industry

Fundamental Advances and Innovations in the Pulp and Paper Industry

-Edited by B. N. Brogdon, Vinings Industries; Coedited by P.W. Haft and C.C. Walker, Westvaco

-Hardcover, 194pp

- Pub S-322; ISBN 0-8169-0816-8 -$80 for AIChE Members, $100 for others

Paper production on the brink of the millennium goes well beyond a few trees and some bleach. Today's pulp and paper mills operate under the same constraints as any other manufacturing operation, including the need for cleaner, and more cost-effective, and efficient processes.

This latest addition to AIChE's Forest Products Symposium Series addresses these needs by targeting some of the principle environmental and technical challenges within the forest products industries.

Drawn from presentations delivered at conference sessions at AIChE's 1998 Annual Meeting and at the Technical Association of the Pulp and Paper Industries (TAPPI) 1998 Pulping Conference, the 23 papers in Fundamental Advances and Innovations in the Pulp and Paper Industry cover fundamental advances and innovative applications in pulping, bleaching, chemical recovery, paper manufacture, and recycling and deinking. Three papers look at the increasingly sophisticated process control technologies that are optimizing pulping operations, including neural network modeling of power and recovery boilers, and a novel method for real-time measurement.of alkaline pulping yields.

Of particular interest in the section on recycling is a look at environmentallybenign pressure-sensitive adhesives for "stickie notes," and the special challenge of recycling wax coated papers.

Other titles include: "Flow Compressibility and Resistance of Chips Made with a New Chipping Technique," "Modeling the Fate of Metal Ions During Brownstock Washing with Bleaching Filtrate Recycle," "Effect of Borate and Boric Acid on Brightness Reversion of Lignin Containing Pulps," "Lightweight, High Opacity Paper: Process Costs and Energy Use Reduction," and "Sintering of Calcined Lime Mud-The Influence of the Sodium Phosphate Content in the Lime."