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Fiber- and fine fractions-derived effects on pulp quality as a result of mechanical pulp refining consistency

Authors: Jonas Hafrén, Dinesh Fernando, Dmitri Gorski, Geoffrey Daniel, Florian A. Salomons

Published in: Wood Science and Technology | Issue 4/2014

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High-yield pulping of wood chips using low-consistency (LC) refining in combination with primary-stage high-consistency (HC) refining has previously been shown to produce paper with quality parameters (tensile strength and light-scattering coefficient) commonly targeted for newsprint with significantly less refining energy input than using only HC refining. However, questions remain on the differences in the refining action between the two refiner types and for high-yield pulping, the refiner energy demand is a crucial process parameter. Therefore, fines- and fiber-fraction development in HC and LC refining has been studied in detail using Bauer-McNett fractionation, and the respective tensile strengths of the different fractions have been compared. Quantitative and qualitative (morphological) characteristics of the isolated fine fractions have also been analyzed in detail using a newly developed automated fluorescence microscopy method and scanning electron microscopy. The results suggest the difference in LC/HC pulp properties (strength and optical) is partly derived from deviating fiber and fines morphologies and mass balances. The quality of the fines generated during HC and LC refining also differs. LC-refined pulps contain thinner fibrillar fines (thread-like) and HC-refined pulps broader fibrils such as lamellae-type fines. Flake-like fines from the outer fiber wall decreased in relative amount with energy input.

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Title: Fiber- and fine fractions-derived effects on pulp quality as a result of mechanical pulp refining consistency
Authors: Jonas Hafrén
Dinesh Fernando
Dmitri Gorski
Geoffrey Daniel
Florian A. Salomons
Publication date: 01-07-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Wood Science and Technology / Issue 4/2014
Print ISSN: 0043-7719
Electronic ISSN: 1432-5225
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00226-014-0636-1

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