Oxalic acid pretreatment for mechanical pulping greatly improves paper strength while maintaining scattering power and reducing shives and triglycerides

TAPPI Fall Technical Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 121-125

  Swaney, Ross ^a   Akhtar, Masood ^a   Horn, Eric ^b   Lentz, Michael ^b   Klungness, John ^c   Sabourin, Marc ^d  

^a University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^b OxaTech Inc   (United States)

^c FOREST PRODUCTS LABORATORY   (United States)

^d ANDRITZ INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY SAVINGS; LIGHTWEIGHT COATED PAPER (LWC); PAPER STRENGTH; TRIGLYCERIDES;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; ENERGY CONSERVATION; MECHANICAL PULP; PAPER AND PULP MILLS; WATER POLLUTION;

ORGANIC ACIDS;

CHEMICAL TREATMENT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; FIBERS; OXALIC ACID; PAPER; PAPER MILLS; PULP MILLS; PULPING; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 22144478673     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (3)

1. Akhtar, M., R.A. Blanchette, G. Meyers, and T.K. Kirk, "An Overview of Biomechanical Pulping Research", Chapter 10 in Environmentally Friendly Technologies for the Pulp and Paper Industry, R. A. Young and M. Akhtar eds., John Wiley & Sons, 341-383 (1998).
2. Akhtar, M., G.M. Scott, R.E. Swaney, and T.K. Kirk, "Overview of Biomechanical and Biochemical Pulping Research", Chapter 2 in Enzyme Applications in Fiber Processing, K.L. Eriksson and A. Cavaco-Paulo eds., ACS Symposium Series 687, American Chemical Society, 15-26 (1998).
3. Black, C.C., "Study of Oxalic Acid as a Pretreatment for Mechanical Pulping in Papermaking", M.S. Thesis, Chemical Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001).