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Pekka Komulainen
Pekka.Komulainen@clarinet.fi
20 August, 2015
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Hardwood vs. softwood cells
Hardwood fibers are about third of the softwood fiber length (1 vs. 3 mm) and 2/3 of
softwood fiber thickness (20/30 μm). In addition, hardwood includes lot of vessel and
ray cells, which can cause so called vessel picking and linting in offset printing.
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Wood and fiber properties
The big difference between softwoods and hardwoods is amount of real fibers (tracheids).
Only tracheids can form fiber network and help papermaking.
Biggest problem with nonwood fibers is low share of real fibers (commonly less than 50%).
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Example of softwood fiber basket
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Roles of different papermaking pulps
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Roles of different raw materials
Additives
Improve the papermaking process (performance chemicals)
Improve the end use properties of the paper (functional chemicals)
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Wood, fiber and paper properties
Hemicellulose
Bonding, Density,
content Dimension stability
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Pulps and paper grades
Actual fiber furnishes may vary largely and can be quite different especially
in small unintegrated paper mills
Very often the price of fiber seems to be more important than the
performance of fiber in the product; within each end-product the quality
and the price of end-products may vary largely
It is important to understand how each furnish component contributes the
quality of the product and the performance in the paper machine, finishing,
and converting
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Tensile strength of different pulps
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Effects of refining on fibers
Internal and external fibrillations as well as creation of fines are the main
positive effects of refining.
Delamination and
swelling of fibers
(internal fibrillation)
Removal of primary
Creation of fines
fiber wall and S1 layer
Dissolving of material
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Final bonding in paper
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Paper density and strength
How to get bonding without density increase? Dry strength chemicals, surface
sizing and micro-fibrilled cellulose are some possibilities.
Gentle refining or low Specific Edge Load (SEL) gives good bulk and bonding
at the same time. Low SEL for never dried hardwood is < 0.5 J/m.
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Effect of chemical pulp refining on paper
+ = Pics: E.Gruber
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Wood, fiber and pulp properties for papermaking
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Wood, fiber and paper properties
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Fiber collapse and flexibility
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Hardwood chemical pulp
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Primary and secondary fines of hardwood
Primary fines of hardwood pulp (ray and vessel cells) cause picking, linting and
reduce bonding.
Secondary fines formed in refining is mostly thin fibrils and enhance bonding.
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Effect of softwood kraft on paper properties
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Positive
Strength properties Increase (also surface, tear and wet strength)
Folding endurance Increases
Negative
Formation Less uniform
Smoothness Decreases
Porosity Increases
Ink holdout Lower
Bulk and stiffness Decrease
Dimensional stability Decreases
Energy consumption Increases
Costs Increase
Picture: Canfor
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Fiber type and wet end runnability
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Dryer section runnability
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Fiber fines and residual tension
The studies of Dr. Retulainen suggest that the residual tension is more closely related to the
tensile stiffness than to the tensile strength. Therefore also the factors, such as the fiber
stiffness, straightness and the activity of the network to bear load, affect the residual tension.
It is interesting to note that stiff TMP fibers blended with only 10 % kraft fines form stronger
wet sheet than kraft fibers and kraft fines.
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Advantages of low break frequency
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Lower raw Less steam &
Less effluent and material costs energy/ton
fresh water/ton Lower
Increased
Longer machine furnish
Improved wire life speed cost
Productivity runnability
Cost
Efficiency Decreased use of Steam & el
Cleaner chemicals used only Higher Less starch
system once press solids etc. needed
Stable and better Better and less variable Easy wet end
Product paper quality raw materials chemistry
Quality
Better CD- Less shade & Stronger Better bulk Better Constant
profiles caliper variation paper & stiffness printability filler content
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TMP fibers and bonding
TMP fibres are normally not very well fibrillated. Fibrillation is needed to get bonding.
Sometimes there is still latency left to the paper machine. Latency (curling of fibers)
reduces strength and bonding and increases porosity.
Fibrillation can be increased by using fresh/moist wood, alkaline pH, high amount of
reject refining and also with post-refining (however may cut fibers too much).
Freeness as such is a measure of fines content, but not a good measure of fibrillation.
Fibrillation should be checked from microscope fiber pictures.
Picture: Knowpap
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TMP fibrils and flakes
A good quality TMP for printing paper includes fibrils to give bonding and strength as
well as flakes (mainly unbonded material) to improve light scattering and paper opacity.
For cartonboard middle ply flakes are not needed.
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Effect of TMP fines to paper properties
It is important to note that fibrils increase tensile strength without reducing light scattering
and flakes increase light scattering without decreasing tensile strength.
A good TMP includes both flakes and fibrils and thus increases both light scattering and
tensile strength.
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Fiber wall thickness vs. roughness & opacity
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Fiber wall thickness determines very much paper smoothness and opacity.
Increased fiber splitting without fiber cutting (lower freeness) can improve
the situation but not totally.
Picture: PFI
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Optimal mechanical pulp
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Fiber Wall Thickness of Norway Spruce
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Average fiber wall thickness of Norway spruce TMP is almost 2 µm but there
are some fibers with wall thickness of 3-5 µm.
Mechanical pulps made from mature Pinus radiata can have fiber wall thickness
of about 6 µm, which is three times the Norway spruce value.
Picea Abies
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Importance of fiber wall thickness
It is important to have several fiber layers in a thin paper to get good formation,
smoothness, opacity and gloss. This correlates with thin fiber wall.
Fiber wall of Norway spruce is about 2 µm while Radiata pine has 4-6 µm. In a 40 gsm
paper there can be only 3-4 fibers of Pinus radiata in the total paper thickness.
T
~ P/2 Fiber Fiber
Wall Grammage
2
µm g/m
1 3
2 6
Wall density ~ 1500 kg/m3 3 9
4 12
5 15
Area = Perimeter x Wall Thickness, A=P*T 6 18
Fiber volume = Area x Length, V=A*L=P*T*L
Coarseness = Fiber weight/Length, C=W/L
C = Volume*Density/Length, C=V*ρ/L=P*T*L* ρ/L= P*T*ρ
Fiber Grammage (g/m2) = Coarseness/fiber Width = P*T*ρ/P*2 = 2*T*ρ = 3*T (µm)
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Example: pulp characteristics for containerboards
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What makes strong kraftliner
It is quite common understanding that fiber length and fiber collapse are the most
important fiber properties having effect on important linerboard properties. This
means that kraft pulp must be strongly refined to get lumen collapse and higher
bonded area. But there is also a third variable what Innventia in Sweden has studied.
PulpEye has recently introduced its CrillEye online crill measurement. Crill is finely
divided cellulosic material - finer than external fibrillation - that is liberated during
refining process. The crill particles are about a hundred times thinner than the fibers.
In spite of the fact that only about one per cent of the weight of fibers and other
particles in the furnish is crill, it can correspond to as much as fifty per cent of the
total free surface area. This shows the importance of crill for the strength properties
of paper.
Valmet has also introduced its own online strength measurement, which is based on
external fibrillation or hairiness of fibers.
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Crill and tensile strength
Research studies at Innventia have shown that crill is the single variable
having the strongest connection to paper strength. Laboratory results in
the figure below show a strong correlation to paper tensile strength index.
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Fibers are never identical
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