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Developing mixture rules for non-conservative properties for pulp suspensions

University of British Columbia

Nowadays new technologies emerge constantly and people continuously strive to meet challenges. The Pulp and Paper industry has been faced with many changes in recent years. One of which is to diversify the fiber baskets to produce a wide range of products. To help papermakers to accommodate this transition from a single pulp component to a multi-component furnish used in their process, this paper first puts effort into developing a sound and effective methodology to characterize mixture rules that predict properties such as tensile strength and pulp freeness. Using an expansion of a higher order Taylor series as the backbone of model development and removing model parameters based on the limitation of the separately refined system and statistical analysis, the tensile strength and pulp freeness models give predictions close to the observed measurements within 10% variance. Furthermore, two methods, one being the minimization approach using least squares, and the other being the one variable approach, when granting more emphasis on one particular mixture parameter than the other is preferred, are established to determine the operating conditions required to satisfy multiple target properties. Lastly, a graphical user interface, built on the defined mixture models, is also constructed to make recommendations of the optimized condition that can be applied to generate a mixture to achieve both target properties at minimum cost.

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2016-04-26

Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International

http://hdl.handle.net/2429/57834

Chemical and Biological Engineering

University of British Columbia

UBCV

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/