Mechatronic design and control of a waste paper sorting system for efficient recycling: Development of a lignin sensor to distinguish recovered paper grades at high speed

TAPPI Fall Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 4037-4040

  Karanakaran, Manukaran ^a   Ramasubramanian, Melur K ^b,c   Venditti, Richard A ^c  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Department of Wood and Paper Science ^*  (United States)

^c North Carolina State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENT RECYCLING; LIGNIN SENSORS; MECHATRONIC DESIGN; WASTE PAPER SORTING;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER CONTROL; FLUORESCENCE; LIGNIN; MECHATRONICS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RECYCLING; SENSORS;

WASTE PAPER;

ALGORITHMS; FLUORESCENCE; MECHANICS; PAPER GRADES; RECYCLING; SENSORS; SORTING; WASTE PAPERS;

EID: 22144457584     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. Friberg, T., Jackson, M. Hottenstein, F. A., Kenny, G. R., "High Speed Automated Optical Sorting of Recovered Paper", proceedings from the 2000 Tappi Recycling Symposium, Volume 1, Washington, D.C., pp. 149-158.
2. Carlsson, J., Malmqvist, L., Nilsson, C. M., and Persson, W., "Application of Optical Fluorescence Spectroscopy to Paper Production", proceedings from the 1999 Tappi International Paper Physics Conference, New York, NY, pp. 429-436.
3. Ammineni, C. M., "Design of a Lignin Sensor for Identification of Waste Paper Grades for an Automatic Waste Paper Sorting System", M. S. Thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, 2001.