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Advances in Eucalyptus Fiber Properties &
Paper Products
Celso Foelkel
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The different viewpoints
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The different viewpoints
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The different
viewpoints
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The different viewpoints
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The different viewpoints $
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Is there a single and most correct way to see our mills, products and
customers ?
How to combine these different viewpoints?
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“Each paper-machine, each pulp mill, any pulp & paper process, any fibrous raw material although
similar are specific and unique. They all have own key-factors to be controlled and
optimized”
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• Why are some eucalyptus fibers different from others ?
• Why are some eucalyptus fibers preferred by customers ?
• Why some pulps, even when offered by lower prices, are not attractive to the papermakers ?
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What makes a pulp special?
“Best fitness to the papermaker”
• End product specifications ?
• Paper-machine runnability ?
• Easy-life to the papermaker?
• Overall cost reductions ?
This means that we are not focusing only the pulp price, but the paper operational production cost.
We are also affecting all the paper production chain.
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The world today:
•over 100 different brands of market pulps
•close to this numbers are the pulp quality categories
WHY?
• different raw materials;
• pulpwood blends;
• different pulp-making processes.
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The real world:
Lots of variability everywhere
•How to tame variability?
•How to cope with variability?
•How to live together with variability?
•How to use it in our favor?
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Causes for pulp quality variability:
•wood differences
•chip quality management
•pulping processes
•bleaching line
•washing presses
•drying (airborne, cylinders, flash)
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Some causes for pulp quality variability:
•pH
•fiber charges
•fiber population
•individual fiber strength
•fines
•water retention value
•fiber flexibility
•cell wall thickness
•bonding ability
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Because of these wide variations in different pulp qualities:
The papermaker develops a recipe or a secret potion and he is resistant to
change ( very understandable)
He has as objectives:
•costs savings
•fewer breaks
•less broke
•better runnability
•end product requirements
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The papermaker is always squeezed by:
•Commercial demands
•Cost reduction demands
•Production objectives
•He hates variability, but
he is always obliged to look for better process conditions, and less expensive manufacturing
(new fillers, new refiner discs, new retention aids, new brightners agents, new quality
demands from the customers, etc)
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The papermaker is always squeezed :
“Please, give me a stable quality pulp or one I may predict
behavior”
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What papermakers most dislike:
•breaks, breaks, breaks
•energy consumption
•chemical consumption
•poor drainage
•machine speed
•broke
•second class quality (below standards)
All representing HIGHER COSTS & PRESSURES
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Definitions
Machine productivity:
• fast speed
• fast drainage
• high consistency after the wet end
• excellent sheet consolidation
• minimum breaks
Quality
• maximum achievements in paper specifications
• minimum generation of off-grades
No matter the papermaker is manufacturing
a commodity or a specialty product, his dreams are the same
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Papermakers want to have:
•a predictable pulp
•a “saving cost” pulp ( I’m not making reference only to the market
pulp price)
•a pulp recipe that allow them to reach the paper specifications 100%
of the time
•high operational efficiencies
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In case we provide these gifts to them, do they consider to pay a premium for ?
•better machine performance
•higher productivity
•lower energy, chemicals, etc
•better quality
•less broke generation
•no complaints from customers
•better sleep at night
•no problems with the wife (or spouse) due to
machine running problems at night
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What is really an eucalyptus pulp ?
•Fibers (over 90% on weight)
•Vessel elements
•Fines (Parenchyma cells and debris)
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Most important quality
properties to papermakers
Fiber properties: •fiber population
•coarseness
•curl index
•kinks & deformations
•zero-span breaking length
•hemicellulose content
•fiber charges
•fiber flexibility
•fiber rigidity
•fine content,
•cell wall thickness
•pulp viscosity
Paper-machine •drainage speed
•refining ability
•WRV
•swelling ability
•formation
•wet web strength
•pH
•dry handsheet properties:
•bulk;
•porosity;
•opacity;
•stiffness;
•tensile; etc.
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How to tame variability?
To control variability the papermaker depends on laboratory evaluations and machine performance indexes
Many times, the variables and properties being evaluated mean close to nothing
Pulp performance is vital
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However
Peripherical pulp properties:
•viscosity
•moisture
•beating runs
•ash content
•cleanliness
Many properties are measure just to provide numbers for justifications
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The three management levels
• Management of the peripherical pulp quality properties
• Management of pulp variability (and machine performance)
• Management of product differentiation
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Management of product differentiation
Only possible when the other two physiological basic needs have been fulfilled.
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How can we manage product differentiation ?
• Pulp quality (types, blends, fractioning, etc)
• Pulping processes (ECF Light or TCF, etc)
• Wood quality (forest certification, wood yard, etc)
• Papermaking process (refining, use of never dried or dried pulps, etc)
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How can we manage product differentiation ?
Silviculture, genetics and wood quality are only part of this game, they are important, but there are other interested parties to be involved.
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Differentiation is more easily achieved in mills with more than
one paper-machine
• no transitions
• interchangeabilities
• better controls
• specific care
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In general, tailor making brings conflicts:
• commercial area
• production area
• product development area
• fiber supply area (foresters or pulp buyers)
“A good start should be an excellent program of people relations and human behavior”
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In general, tailor making brings conflicts:
• Everyone would like to have a single product, with no variability, and being able to be successful anywhere and to anybody.
“However, this is not the real life”
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Is there a single and most important pulp characteristic or fiber property?
The mill bottlenecks will define what is important...
“This is real life”
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“This is real life”
• refining capacity
• steam availability
• electricity availability
• short wet end
• wet presses deficiencies
• out-of-dated headbox
• etc
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Back again to the papermaker physiological needs:
How may we provide happiness and good will to our papermaker friend ?
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Need # 1: Drainage and retention in the wet end
• Fiber population
• Freeness level
• WRV
• Fiber flexibility
• Fines
• Fiber charges
• Wire design
• Machine cleanliness
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Need # 2: Sheet strength along the paper-machine, specially at the wet end and wet presses passes
• Individual fiber strength (cell wall, fiber deformations, microfractures)
• Fiber bonding
• Consolidation of the web
• Contaminants
• Moisture content
• Wet Web Strength
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Need # 3: Final paper specifications as defined by customers and end-users
• Strength properties
• Tactile properties
• Formation
• Brightness
• Bulk
• Porosity
• Absorption
• Aesthetical properties
• etc.
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The Dilemma or the Enigma...
The most important Eucalyptus Fiber or
Pulp Properties
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Fiber Population (associated to fiber coarseness )
Related to a number of other fiber properties:
•cell wall fraction •fiber length
• Runkel index • wood basic density
• fines content
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Fiber Population (associated to fiber coarseness )
Related to a number of paper-machine performance indexes and paper quality:
• drainage • speed
• retention • bulk, porosity, opacity, etc
• formation • smoothness
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Just to refresh ideas...
0,43 5,8 25,4
0,46 6,4 21,6
0,51 7,4 19,7
0,54 9,3 17,5
0,60 11,8 13,0
Wood
Density
g/cm³
Fiber
Coarseness
mg/100m
Fiber
Population
Nº in million/g
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Suggestions for High Corseness Fibers (Heavy Fibers)
• Decor papers
• Filter papers
• Tissue papers
• Cigarette papers
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Suggestions for Low Corseness Fibers ( Light Fibers)
• Base paper for coating
• Label papers
• Release papers
• Glassine papers
• Thermal papers
• Highly bonded papers
• Some P&W papers
However, this is very much dependent on the customers limitations ( machine speed & design,
porosity and bulk specifications, etc.)
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Individual Fiber
Strength
Related to a number of fiber quality and final paper parameters:
• cell wall fraction • micellar angle
• Zero span • fiber deformations • Wet Web Strength
• dry paper strengths
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Fiber Collapsibility (associated to wet sheet compactability)
Related to a number of fiber quality and final paper parameters:
• cell wall fraction
• fiber resistance to collapse • fiber coarseness
• bonding strengths • dry sheet bulk at a given level of
freeness
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Eucalyptus Chemical Pulp Fibers
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Collapsible and collapse
resistant fibers
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Fiber Bonding (associated to paper cohesiveness )
Related to a number of other fiber properties:
• beating (fibrillation and
collapsibility) • fines and fiber debris • dry/wet short span
• wax picking test • fiber population • fiber coarseness •cell wall fraction
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Fiber Swelling &
Hydration Capacity
Related to a number of fiber quality and final paper parameters:
• Water Retention Value
•freeness level • fiber charges
• carboxyl groups • fine content
• pulp degradation (viscosity) • fiber wall micro-porosity and damages
Pulp Swelling and Hydration may become a real problem in integrated paper mills
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Fiber Swelling &
Hydration Capacity
A very strong relation between WRV and Hysteresis
For this reason, many papermakers prefer to have some percentage of dry paper broke in the furnish. With this candour thinking, they believe that the
generation of dry broke is required (sic..)
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Fiber Deformations
Fiber life is not that simple
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CURL
Form Factor of a Fiber = 100 x C/L
Kinks
es
Curl
L
C
And also Fiber Latency...
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Fiber new attributes
Micro-compressions
Kinks
Curl
How to add these attributes to a pulp?
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Fiber Deformations
They provide improvements in porosity, bulk, absorption, and other tissue and filter properties
Fiber deformations may be artificially generated at the manufacturing
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Fines
Always discarded as an important pulp property, but perhaps one of the most relevant
Fines management is a real new opportunity to
papermakers
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The most usual Eucalyptus paper products
• Printing and Writing • Tissue, filters, decor, base for impregnation
• Multiply cardboard
• Cigarette papers
•Specialty papers
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Tissues and Porous Papers “what do we need on them?”
• Bulk • Porosity • Softness
• Tactile feeling • Fast drainage • Absorption
• WWS •Loosen fiber structure in the paper
(creping & embossing)
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Tissues and Eucalyptus Fibers “what do we need on them?”
• low fines • high coarseness • low fiber population • low hemicellulose content • low bonding • low WRV • high fiber deformations • high bulk at a given tensile
Fortunately, we are able to control and to design all of these pulp properties
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P & W Papers “what do we need on them?”
• Formation • Strength • Porosity • Opacity • Surface smoothness • Dimensional stability • Bonding
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P&W and Eucalyptus Fibers “what do we need on them?”
• high fiber population • bonding • fines • low content and small vessel elements • hemicellulose content • high strengths at low level of refining (fast beating response, for example 25º or 30º SR) • strengths properties at a given bulk level (for example 1.8 or 1.6 cm³/g)
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P&W and Eucalyptus Fibers “what do we need on them?”
There are limits for all these characteristics, and they depend on bottlenecks, available machinery
and operator skills.
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Eucalyptus Fibers “why do papermakers love them?”
• Unique fiber properties • Excellent paper-machine behavior
• Lower cost in relation to long fibers
Eucalyptus fibers are not to be highly refined: we may lose all their most important features
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What can we do to bring an unique reference to our pulp products in the competitive market?
Coarseness & fiber population Fiber deformations Fiber collapsibility Fines management Individual fiber strength Hysteresis management Hemicellulose content Pulpwood recipes Brightness & cleanliness Paper-machine drainage, cleanliness & speed Bonding and strengths
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Well, this is all my
friends.
Thank you very much.
Good luck with the utilization of Eucalyptus pulps in your furnishes
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What can we also do to bring an unique reference to our pulp products ? Management of the swelling ability of the pulp furnish Management of fines Management of fiber deformations Management of pulp blends Management of the wood supply Please, e-mail me a message with your preference for my next article: [email protected]