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Introduction
Pulp is manufactured from wood by using cooking and
bleaching processes in which lignin is removed from
wood cells as shown in Fig.1. Initially wood is cut into
chips of medium size and subjected to cooking at around
165OC for 4 hours with white liquor (NaOH, Na2CO3 and
Na2S) and the solution so formed is called pulp solution.
The filtered pulp is sent for bleaching where it is treated
with many bleaching agents. Based on the variety of
paper to be manufactured, bleached pulp is mixed with
various chemicals like alkyl-ketene-dimer, starch, optical
brightening agents and talcum to improve the properties
of the paper. During paper making, pulp slurry is
subjected to flow in horizontal direction (machine
direction MD) in which pulp forms as web of paper and
excess water is removed in different stages including
vacuum drying and steam drying. To avoid the wrinkles
and to increase the smoothness, paper sheets are subjected
to calendaring before packing.
Since it is difficult to test the single pulp fibres, testing of
final paper properties such as brightness, burst-factor,
tensile strength, etc., are generally practiced in quality
control (QC) laboratory using paper sheets, where these
parameters are tested by using machines, but the values
are entered manually in log book. In this procedure, it
becomes difficult to assess the data, for example GSM
(Gram per square meter) influence on Cobb value for a
period of one year. Since normal tools such as MS excel
will not allow entering data normally with consistency
and also for easy assessment, new tool has been
developed for assessing the QC data in any
manufacturing industry. HTML, PHP, and CSS are used
*Presenting author: V.
Chandrakanth
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for the front-end. PHP and SQL are used for the backend. These portals make the user to use all these at a time
in an easier and secured way.
Distributor assesses the quality of paper by looking at the
values of the parameters obtained in QC lab. In paper
industry physical properties like GSM, tear factor, burst
factor, breaking length and optical properties like opacity,
brightness etc., are generally measured. In this paper, we
are going to demonstrate the tool, in which data can be
entered easily and multiple graphs can be generated so
that the technical experts in the paper mill could easily
understand the errors in the paper making. Accordingly
following decisions can be taken quickly:
Wood Chips
Paper
Unbleached Pulp
Bleached Pulp
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GSM 80
(Tear factor_MD)
(Burst factor)
(Folding endurance_MD; No. of Double folds)
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Advantages of tool
Data can be entered from any place and data consistency
can be maintained (data entered at one place is not easily
erasable). Redundancy can be avoided (data is not
repeated anywhere while entering). One of the major
technical advancement of this tool is that it can be
attached to the sensor networks of the paper machines, so
that according to the desired properties, the changing
factors mentioned earlier like RPM of the rollers, amount
of chemicals added in the pulp can be controlled by the
tool itself, thus automating the whole process and
reducing humane errors.
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References
[1] R.B. Adusumalli, W.Mook, R.Passas, P.Schwaller,
J.Michler (2010). Journal of Material Science
45(10);2558-2563
[2] Karlsson H (2006). Fibre guideFibre analysis and
process applications in the pulp and paper industry.
AB Lorentzen & Wettre, Sweden.
Conclusions
This tool has been designed to analyze multiple data in a
manufacturing industry. In traditional companies
parameters are measured by high end machines, but saved
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