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US20130306256A1 US13/955,065 US201313955065A US2013306256A1 US 20130306256 A1 US20130306256 A1 US 20130306256A1 US 201313955065 A US201313955065 A US 201313955065A US 2013306256 A1 US2013306256 A1 US 2013306256A1
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  • Mechanical pulping primarily uses mechanical energy to separate pulp fibers from wood without a substantial removal of lignin. As a result, the yield of mechanical pulping is high, typically in the range of 85-98%.
  • the produced fiber pulps generally have high bulk and stiffness properties.
  • mechanical pulping consumes a high level of operational energy, and the mechanical pulps often have poor strength.
  • CTMP Thermomechanical pulping
  • TMP Thermomechanical pulping
  • CMP Chemi-thermomechanical pulping
  • Sodium sulfite has been the main chemical used for CTMP pulping.
  • alkaline hydrogen peroxide As an impregnation chemical and as a chemical directly applied to a high consistency refiner treatment for CTMP pulping.
  • APMP alkaline peroxide mechanical pulping
  • Chemical wood pulping is a process to separate pulp fibers from lignin by employing mainly chemical and thermal energy. Normally, lignin represents about 20-35% of the dry wood mass. When the majority of the lignin is substantially removed, the pulping provides approximately a 45-53% pulp yield.
  • Chemical pulping reacts wood chips with chemicals under pressure and temperature to remove lignin that binds pulp fibers together. Chemical pulping is categorized based on the chemicals used into kraft, soda, and sulfite.
  • Alkaline pulping (AP) uses an alkaline solution of sodium hydroxide with sodium sulfide (kraft process) or without sodium sulfide (soda process).
  • Acid pulping uses a solution of sulfurous acid buffered with a bisulfite of sodium, magnesium, calcium, or ammonia (sulfite process). Chemical pulping provides pulp fibers with, compared to mechanical pulping, improved strength due to a lesser degree of fiber degradation and enhanced bleachability due to lignin removal.
  • wood is “cooked” with chemicals in a digester so that a certain degree of lignin is removed.
  • a kappa number is used to indicate the level of the remaining lignin.
  • the pulping parameters are, to a large degree, able to be modified to achieve the same kappa number. For example, a shorter pulping time may be compensated for by a higher temperature and/or a higher alkali charge in order to produce pulps with the same kappa number.
  • Kraft pulping has typically been divided into two major end uses: unbleached pulps and bleachable grade pulps.
  • unbleached softwood pulps pulping is typically carried out to a kappa number range of about 65-105.
  • bleachable grade softwood kraft pulps pulping is typically carried out to a kappa number of less than 30.
  • bleachable grade hardwood kraft pulps pulping is typically carried out to a kappa number of less than 20.
  • kraft pulping usually generates about 1-3 weight % of undercooked fiber bundles and about 97-99 weight % of liberated pulp fibers.
  • the undercooked, non-fiberized materials are commonly known as rejects, and the fiberized materials are known as accepts pulp.
  • Rejects are separated from accepts pulp by a multiple stage screening process. Rejects are usually disposed of in a sewer, recycled back to the digester, or thickened and burned. In a few circumstances, rejects are collected and recooked in the digester.
  • drawbacks exist from recooking the rejects which include an extremely low fiber yield, a potential increase in the level of pulp dirt, and a decrease in pulp brightness (poorer bleachability).
  • Modern screen rooms are typically designed to remove about 1-2 weight % of rejects from a chemical pulping process. If a mill experiences cooking difficulties and accidentally undercooks the pulp, the amount of rejects increases exponentially.
  • Modern bleachable grade kraft pulp screen rooms are not physically designed to process pulps with greater than about 5% by weight of rejects. When the level of rejects increases to slightly above 4-5% by weight, either the screen room plugs up and shuts down the pulp mill, or the screen room is bypassed and the pulp is dumped onto the ground or into an off quality tank and disposed of or gradually blended back into the process. Therefore, bleachable grade kraft pulps are conventionally cooked to relatively low kappa numbers (20-30 for softwoods and 12-20 for hardwoods) to maintain a low level of rejects and good bleachability.
  • Multiply paperboards are commonly prepared from one or more aqueous slurries of cellulosic fibers concurrently or sequentially laid onto a moving screen. Production of multiply board requires additional processing steps and equipment (e.g., headbox and/or fourdrinier wire) to the single ply boards.
  • a first ply is formed by dispensing the aqueous slurry of cellulosic fibers onto a long horizontal moving screen (fourdrinier wire). Water is drained from the slurry through the fourdrinier wire, and additional plies are successively laid on the first and dewatered in similar manner.
  • additional plies may be formed by means of smaller secondary fourdrinier wires situated above the primary wire with additional aqueous slurries of cellulosic fibers deposited on each smaller secondary fourdrinier wire. Dewatering of the additional plies laid down on the secondary fourdrinier wires is accomplished by drainage through the wires usually with the aid of vacuum boxes associated with each fourdrinier machine. The formed additional plies are successively transferred onto the first and succeeding plies to build up a multiply mat. After each transfer, consolidation of the plies must be provided to bond the plies into a consolidated multiply board. Good adhesion between each ply is critical to the performance of multiply board, leading to an additional factor that may deteriorate board properties.
  • the plies must be bonded together well enough to resist shear stress when under load and provide Z-direction fiber bond strength within and between plies to resist splitting during converting and end use.
  • a multiply paperboard with an increased basis weight is economically undesirable because of a higher production cost and higher shipping cost for the packaging articles made of such board.
  • Unbleached products are commonly produced using either (1) substantial amounts of unbleached, low kappa number hardwood kraft pulps, or (2) blends of high yield unbleached pine and unbleached, low kappa number hardwood pulps.
  • Saturating kraft pulp grades are typically made with (1) unbleached hardwood pulps, or (2) unbleached hardwood pulps with small amounts, about 10 weight per cent, of cut up high yield unbleached pine pulps.
  • a key measure of the performance of saturating kraft pulps is saturability and resin pick up.
  • Other product grades are a blend of unbleached, low kappa hardwood and unbleached high yield pine to produce board packaging grades. Stiffness and printability are key performance parameters for these types of boards.
  • linerboard products are produced in a multilayer format with high yield pine on the bottom layer and unbleached, low kappa hardwood in the top layer. STFI stiffness and smoothness are key quality concerns for these products.
  • the present disclosure relates to a method of wood pulping having a significantly increased yield and providing fiber pulps with enhanced properties such as strength and stiffness.
  • the obtained fiber pulps are suitable for use in the production of paperboard packaging grade and multiply linerboard having improved stiffness and strength, compared to the conventional paperboard at the same basis weight. Additionally, the disclosed fiber pulps provide saturating kraft paper with excellent saturability and resin pick up that would allow converters to reduce the amount of phenolic resin required in producing phenolic laminate structure.
  • Wood chips are chemically pulped to a high kappa number, providing a first accepts component and a first rejects component.
  • the first rejects component is subjected to a high consistency, substantially mechanical pulping process, optionally in a presence of caustic and/or bleaching agent, generating a second accepts component and a second rejects component.
  • the first accepts component may be used in the production of saturating kraft paper with excellent saturability and resin pick up that requires a reduced amount of phenolic resin for the laminate construction.
  • the second accepts may be used as a second fiber source in the production of multiply linerboard and unbleached paperboard with enhanced stiffness, strength, and smoothness.
  • the first accepts component may be blended with the second accepts component to produce fiber blends.
  • the fiber blends may be subjected to a papermaking process to produce paper or paperboard with enhanced strength and stiffness at low basis weight.
  • the disclosed method of wood pulping has a significantly increased fiber yield and provides fiber with equal, if not enhanced, performance compared to the fiber obtained from the conventional wood pulping process.
  • FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing one embodiment of the pulping process of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing one embodiment of the pulping process of the present disclosure
  • FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing one embodiment of the pulping process of the present disclosure, wherein the first accepts component is used in the production of saturating kraft paper, and the second accepts component is for the production of multiply linerboard or paperboard;
  • FIG. 4 is a graph showing percentages of phenolic resin required for the production of saturating kraft paper, at different sheet density, when different fiber pulps are used as fiber sources: conventional kraft pulps (Conventional Kraft Nos. 1 and 2) and the first accepts fiber component of the present disclosure (Disclosed Kraft Nos. 1 and 2); and
  • FIG. 5 is a graph showing weight percents of the fibers retained on the Bauer-McNett screen of different mesh sizes for the fiber blend of the present disclose and for the conventional Kraft fibers.
  • FIG. 1 shows one embodiment of the pulping process of the present disclosure.
  • Wood chips provided in ( 101 ) may be subjected to a chemical pulping ( 102 ) to provide a first amount of pulp.
  • the first amount of pulp may be screened at ( 103 ) to separate a first rejects component from a first accepts component.
  • the first rejects component may be subjected to a high consistency, substantially mechanical pulping process ( 104 ), providing a second rejects component and a second accepts component.
  • the second accepts component may be separated from the second rejects component through screening ( 105 ).
  • the second rejects component may be combined with the first rejects component and sent back to the high consistency, substantially mechanical pulping processing ( 104 ).
  • the second accepts component may be blended with the first accepts component, providing a fiber blend.
  • the resulting fiber blend may be subjected to bleaching ( 106 ) prior to a papermaking process ( 107 ) or subjected directly to a papermaking process ( 107 ).
  • the high consistency, substantially mechanical pulping process used for treating the rejects component of the present disclosure may be any mechanical process performed in a presence of chemical agent(s).
  • chemical agent may be the chemical compound retained in the rejects component from the chemical pulping of wood chips, or the chemical compound added during the mechanical pulping of the rejects components, or combinations thereof.
  • FIG. 2 shows another embodiment of the pulping process of the present disclosure.
  • Wood chips provided in ( 201 ) may be subjected to a chemical pulping ( 202 ) in a digester, providing the first amount of pulp.
  • the first amount of pulp may be screened at ( 203 ) to separate a first rejects component from a first accepts component.
  • the first rejects component may be put through a rejects processing procedure ( 204 ), where the first rejects component may be subjected to a high consistency refining ( 205 ) in the presence of pulping or bleaching chemicals and then discharged into a retention device ( 206 ) for a predetermined retention time.
  • the resulting refined pulps may be further subjected to at least one more refining process ( 207 ), or sent directly to a screening ( 208 ) without an additional refining process to separate a second rejects component from a second accepts component.
  • the second rejects component may be combined with the first reject component and sent back to the rejects processing procedure ( 204 ). It is to be understood that FIG. 2 represents one example of such rejects processing, but other mechanisms for the rejects processing procedure may be used in the present disclosure.
  • the second accepts component may be blended with the first accepts component, providing a fiber blend.
  • the resulting fiber blend may be subjected to bleaching ( 209 ) prior to a papermaking process ( 210 ), or subjected directly to a papermaking process ( 210 ).
  • FIG. 3 shows another embodiment of the pulping process of the present disclosure.
  • Wood chips such as hardwood or eucalyptus chips, provided in ( 301 ) may be subjected to a chemical pulping ( 302 ) to provide a first amount of pulp.
  • the first amount of pulp may be screened at ( 303 ) to separate a first rejects component from a first accepts component.
  • the first accepts component may be used in a production of saturating kraft paper ( 304 ).
  • the first rejects component may be subjected to a high consistency, substantially mechanical pulping ( 305 ), providing a second rejects component and a second accepts component.
  • the second accepts component may be separated from the second rejects component through screening ( 306 ).
  • the second rejects component may be combined with the first rejects component and sent back to the high consistency, substantially mechanical pulping processing ( 305 ).
  • the second accepts component may be further processed without combining with the first accepts component. For example, it may be used as a second fiber source for a production of multiply linerboard having the second accepts component in one ply of the linerboard ( 307 ).
  • the chemical pulping process of the wood chips may be designed to provide about 6-50% weight of the rejects component, which is unlike a conventional kraft process that typically generates about 1-5% weight of the rejects component. In some embodiments, the pulping process may provide about 30-35% weight of the rejects component.
  • kraft pulping for bleachable grade may be carried to a kappa number range of about 30-95 for softwood, compared to a kappa number of less than 30 for a conventional softwood processes.
  • the kraft pulping may be carried out to a kappa number range of about 20-75, compared to a kappa number of less than 20 for conventional hardwood processes.
  • the pulping process of hardwood or eucalyptus chips may be carried out to a kappa number of about 70.
  • the pulping process may be carried out to a kappa number of about 55.
  • several operational parameters for pulping may be adjusted and optimized to achieve pulping with such high kappa number. These parameters include, but are not limited to, lower cooking temperature, lower cooking time, reduced chemical level, and combinations thereof.
  • the resulting pulp fibers may be screened through a multi-stage screening process to separate the first rejects component from the first accepts component.
  • the resulting pulp fibers may be screened through a coarse barrier screen, and subsequently through a second primary screen consisting of fine slots or small holes.
  • the collected rejects component may be further screened through two to three levels of slotted or hole screens to separate a pure reject stream from a stream of good, debris free fiber capable of passing through a typical bleachable grade fiber slot or hole.
  • the obtained first accepts fiber component may be used as a fiber source for a production of saturating kraft paper as shown in FIG. 3 , or it may be combined with the second accepts component and then used as a fiber source for a production of paper or paperboard with enhanced strength, stiffness, and smoothness as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 .
  • the first rejects component obtained from a screening process may be subjected to a rejects processing step, which is a high consistency pulping process.
  • a rejects processing step which is a high consistency pulping process.
  • substantially mechanical pulping process may be used for such high consistency pulping.
  • Suitable substantially mechanical pulping processes for the present disclosure include, but are not limited to, mechanical pulping such as refining, alkaline peroxide mechanical (APMP) pulping, alkaline thermomechanical pulping, thermomechanical pulping, and chemi-thermomechanical pulping. Any known mechanical techniques may be used in refining the fibers of the present disclosure. These include, but are not limited to, beating, bruising, cutting, and fibrillating fibers.
  • the rejects component may be thickened to about 30% consistency and subjected to a high consistency refining in a presence or absence of bleaching agent(s).
  • the compositions and amounts of the bleaching agents may be adjusted to ensure peroxide stabilization and good fiber refinability.
  • the bleaching agent and the rejects component may be added simultaneously to the refiner, or the bleaching agent(s) may be added to the rejects component after the refining process.
  • the rejects component may be refined in either an atmospheric or pressurized refiner using about 5-30 hpd/ton energy.
  • the resulting treated rejects component may either be screened through a fine slotted, multi-stage screening or passed through a set of low consistency secondary refiners and then through a multi-stage screening process, generating the second accepts component and the second rejects component.
  • the second accepts component may be used as an independent fiber source or blended back to a stream of the first accepts component.
  • the second rejects component may be sent back to the rejects processing step for a further treatment.
  • the refined rejects component may also be discharged into a retention device for a retention time of about 0-60 minutes. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, the refined rejects may be retained for about 30 minutes. Subsequently, the resulting treated rejects component may either be screened through a fine slotted, multi-stage screening or passed through a set of low consistency secondary refiners and then through a multi-stage screening process, generating the second accepts component and the second rejects component. The second accepts component may be blended back to a stream of the first accepts component, while the second rejects component may be sent back to the rejects processing step for a further treatment as shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 . Alternatively, the second accepts component may be further processed without combining with the first accepts component. For example, the second accepts component may be used as a second fiber source for a production of multiply linerboard ( FIG. 3 ).
  • about 65% by weight of the first accepts component may be blended with about 35% by weight of the second accepts component. In some embodiments of the present disclosure, about 70% by weight of the first accepts component may be blended with about 30% by weight of the second accepts component.
  • the ratio of the first accepts component to the second accepts component may be similar to the ratio of the first accepts component to the first rejects component produced in the first screening process. If the fibers are for an unbleached grade of paper or paperboard, the resulting blended fibers may be further subjected to a traditional papermaking processes. If the fibers are for a bleached grade paper/paperboard, the resulting blended fibers may be bleached prior to being subjected to a traditional papermaking processes.
  • bleaching agents may be used to bleach the fiber of the present disclosure. These include, but are not limited to, chlorine dioxide, enzymes, sodium hypochlorite, sodium hydrosulfite, elemental chlorine, ozone, peroxide, and combinations thereof. Furthermore, several bleaching techniques may be used. These include, but are not limited to, an oxygen delignification process, an extraction with base in the presence of peroxide and/or oxygen, or passing the fiber blend directly to a conventional or ozone containing bleach plant.
  • the fibers used in the present disclosure may be derived from a variety of sources. These include, but are not limited to, hardwood, softwood, eucalyptus, or combinations thereof.
  • the wood pulping process of the present disclosure provides an increased yield in a range of about 8-20% compared to conventional pulping processes. (TABLE 1) This substantial yield improvement is even higher than the level considered as a breakthrough innovation defined by the DOE Agenda 20/20 program (i.e., 5-10% yield increase).
  • the fibers obtained from the described pulping process provide paper or paperboard with improved stiffness at a lower basis weight compared to the paper or paperboard comprising conventional pulps, and yet without any reduction in tear strength, tensile strength, and other physical properties.
  • the fiber blends of the present disclosure provide paperboard with higher stiffness, at the same bulk, than the paperboard made of conventional fibers. (TABLE 2) This significant improvement in stiffness at the same bulk may allow a mill to reduce the fiber level conventionally required for producing paperboard with the same stiffness level by 13%.
  • the paper/paperboard made with the disclosed fibers provides a desired strength property at a lower basis weight than those made of the conventional kraft pulps.
  • the single ply-paper/paperboard made of the disclosed fibers at unconventionally low basis weight shows strength and stiffness characteristics approaching those of conventional multiply paper/paperboard. Therefore, the disclosed novel pulping process allows a single-ply paper/paperboard to be used in the end use markets that have been limited to only a multiply paper/paperboard due to the desired high strength.
  • the paperboard containing the fibers of the present disclosure may be used for packaging a variety of goods. These include, but are not limited to, tobacco, aseptic liquids, and food.
  • the saturability of the resulting kraft paper is about the same as that of the conventional kraft paper. Additionally, the amount of phenolic resin required for the disclosed kraft paper to produce acceptable quality laminate structures is significantly lower than that for the convention kraft paper. This is because when the first accepts component is used as saturating kraft fiber source, a higher level of phenolic lignin structures is retained in the fiber.
  • FIG. 4 shows that the saturating kraft paper containing the first accepts fiber component of the present disclosure (Disclosed Kraft Nos. 1 and 2) require lower amount of phenolic resin compared to the saturating kraft paper made of conventional fiber pulps (Conventional Kraft Nos. 1 and 2).
  • Hardwood chips were Kraft pulped in a digester to a kappa number of 50 to provide a first amount of pulp containing a first accepts component and a first rejects component.
  • the first accepts component was separated from the first rejects component using a 0.085′′ hole screen followed by a 0.008′′ slotted screen.
  • the first rejects component was then thickened to 30% consistency, and then refined and pre-bleached by an APMP type alkaline pulping process using alkaline peroxide in a high consistency refiner to generate a second amount of pulp containing a second accepts component and a second rejects component.
  • the second accepts component was separated from the second rejects component and shives using a 0.008′′ slotted screen, and then from the smaller fiber bundles that passed the 0.008′′ screen using a 0.006′′ slotted screen.
  • the resulting second accepts component was added back to a stream of the first accepts component.
  • the resulting fiber blend comprising 70% by weight of the first accepts component and 30% by weight of the second accepts component, was bleached to about 87 GE brightness and then subjected to a Prolab refining at two different energy levels: 1.5 hpd/ton and 3.0 hpd/ton.
  • the resulting refined fibers were measured for a degree of freeness (CSF) using the TAPPI standard procedure No. T-227.
  • the resulting refined fibers were also tested for the amount of light weight fines (%LW fines on a length-weighted basis), the length, width, fiber coarseness, and fiber deformation properties such as curl, kink, and kirk angle.
  • a Fiber Quality Analyzer (FQA) instrument was used to obtain these measurements.
  • the fiber length distribution of the resulting fiber blend was determined using a Bauer-McNett Classifier and compared to that of the conventional kraft fibers.
  • the Bauer-McNett Classifier fractionates a known weight of pulp fiber through a series of screens with continually higher mesh numbers. The higher the mesh number, the smaller the size of the mesh screen. The fibers larger than the size of the mesh screen are retained on the screen, while the fibers smaller than the size of the mesh screen are allowed to pass through the screen. The weight percent fiber retained on the screens of different mesh sizes was measured. (TABLE 4, FIG. 5 )
  • the disclosed fiber blend showed a fiber length distribution containing at least 2 weight percent of long fibers and at least 15 weight percent of short fibers, as defined by the 14 mesh-size and 200 mesh-size screens of the Bauer-McNett classifier.
  • traditional kraft fiber pulp contained less than 0.5 weight percent of long fibers (i.e., fibers retained on a 14 mesh-size screen), and less than 8 weight percent of short fibers (i.e., fibers passed through a 200 mesh-size screen).
  • the fiber length distribution of the disclosed fiber blend is much broader than that of traditional kraft fibers.
  • the fiber blend of the present disclosure has a higher level of long fibers than the convention kraft fiber pulp, as shown by an increase in weight percent of the fiber retained on the 14 mesh-size screen.
  • the fiber blend of the present disclosure has a significantly higher level of short fibers than the convention kraft fiber pulp, as indicated by a substantial increase in weight percent of the fiber passing through a 200 mesh-size screen.
  • the fiber blend at the same rejects ratio, but without being refined in a Prolab refiner was used as a starting point to determine the impact of refining energy upon fiber physical property development. Additionally, hardwood pulps obtained from a pulp washing line in a commercially operating kraft pulping process were subjected to a Prolab refining process using 1.5 and 3.0 hpd/t, and used as controls.
  • the fiber blend of the present disclosure showed a lower freeness and higher level disclosed pulp blend had a greater degree of fiber deformation than the baseline pulp, especially with regard to fiber kink. (TABLE 5)
  • Modified TAPPI board-weight handsheets (120 g/m 2 basis weight) made of the disclosed fiber blend were produced and tested for tensile energy absorption (TEA), strain, elastic modulus, and maximum loading value using the TAPPI standard procedure No. T-494. Furthermore, the handsheets were tested for internal bonding strength based on Scott Bond test as specified in the TAPPI standard procedure No. T-569 and Z-direction tensile (ZDT) strength using the TAPPI standard procedure No. T-541.
  • the handsheets made of the disclosed fiber blend had higher tensile energy absorption (TEA), strain, maximum loading values, and elastic modulus than those of handsheets made of the control pulps. Moreover, the strength properties enhanced as the energy applied to the pulps in a Prolab refiner increased.
  • the handsheets were also tested for the internal bond strength based on Scott Bond value and Z-direction strength.
  • the handsheets of the disclosed pulp blend showed higher internal bond strength than those of handsheets made of the control pulps. When compared at equivalent freeness or bulk levels, the strength properties for the disclosed blend pulps are similar to the control pulp. (TABLE 6)
  • the handsheets were tested for physical properties such as L &W stiffness based on the TAPPI standard procedure Lorentzen & Wettre No. T-556, smoothness based on Sheffield smoothness as described in the TAPPI standard procedure No. T-538, and fold endurance based on MIT fold endurance as described in the TAPPI standard procedure No. T-511.
  • the handsheets made of the disclosed fibers had lower caliper, and therefore lower bulk, than those made of the control pulps at the same levels of refining energy. However, even at those lower bulk levels, the handsheets of the disclosed pulp blend showed about the same level of L&W bending stiffness (measured as it was and as indexed for differences in basis weight) as the handsheets made of the control pulps.
  • the handsheets of the disclosed fibers had a significantly improved bending stiffness, compared to the handsheets made of the control pulps. Smoothness and fold values are essentially the same for the control and blend pulps when compared at constant bulk levels. (TABLE 7)
  • Fiber furnish is the highest cost raw material in the papermaking process.
  • the ability to reduce the amount of fiber in the furnish in the present disclosure provides a significant economic and performance competitive advantage compared to the conventional pulping process.
  • Hardwood chips were Kraft pulped in a digester to a kappa number of 70 to provide a first amount of pulp containing a first accepts component and a first rejects component.
  • the first accepts component was separated from the first rejects component using a 0.110′′ hole screen followed by a 0.008′′ slot screen.
  • the first rejects component was then thickened to 30% consistency, and then refined with an APMP type alkaline pulping process using caustic or alkaline peroxide in a high consistency refiner to generate a second amount of pulp containing a second accepts component and a second rejects component.
  • the second accepts component was separated from the second rejects component and shives using a 0.008′′ slotted screen, and then from the smaller fiber bundles that passed the 0.008′′ screen using a 0.006′′ slotted screen. A portion of the first accepts was retained as an independent fiber. The remainder of the first accepts fiber was used to produce fiber blends.
  • a portion of the second accepts fiber was retained as an independent fiber source, while the remaining second accepts component was added back to a stream of the first accepts component.
  • the resulting fiber blend comprising 70% by weight of the first accepts component and 30% by weight of the second accepts component was used as a third independent fiber source.
  • These three independent fiber sources were used to make various laboratory scale products for testing.
  • the first accepts and the blended fiber sources were both used to make saturating kraft handsheets.
  • the blended fiber source was also used to make multiply linerboard simulations and unbleached fiberboard simulations.
  • the second accepts independent fiber source was used to make multiply linerboard simulations.

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