The potential for steam savings and implementation of different biorefinery concepts in Scandinavian integrated TMP and paper mills

Applied Thermal Engineering

Volumn 31, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 2107-2114

  Jönsson, Johanna ^a   Ruohonen, Pekka ^b   Michel, Grégory ^a   Berntsson, Thore ^a  

^a CHALMERS UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Biorefinery; Excess heat; Process integration; Thermo mechanical pulp and paper mill

Indexed keywords

BIOREFINERIES; BIOREFINERY CONCEPT; BIOREFINERY PROCESS; EXCESS HEAT; FRESH WATER; GRAND COMPOSITE CURVES; HEAT DEMANDS; HEAT LEVEL; HEAT LOADS; PAPER MILL; PROCESS INTEGRATION; PRODUCTION RATES; PULP AND PAPER; PULP AND PAPER MILL; STEAM CONSUMPTION; TEMPERATURE LEVEL; THERMO-MECHANICAL; THERMO-MECHANICAL PULP AND PAPER MILL; WARM WATER;

BIOCONVERSION; KRAFT PROCESS; KRAFT PULP; MECHANICAL PULP; PAPERMAKING MACHINERY; REFINING; STEAM; THERMOMECHANICAL PULPING PROCESS;

PAPER AND PULP MILLS;

HEAT; KRAFT PULPS; MECHANICAL PULPS; PAPER MAKING EQUIPMENT; PROCESSES; PULP MILLS; REFINING; SCANDINAVIA; STEAM; THERMOMECHANICAL PULPS;

EID: 79958796271     PISSN: 13594311     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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