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CKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author wishes to thank all of the peopleand companies who contributed information,photographs, and other help. Special thanks to thePope and Talbot mill in Halsey, Oregon, theJames River mill in Halsey, Oregon, the JamesRiver mill in Camas, Washington, and the BoiseCascade Corporate Research Center in Portland,Oregon for providing valuable help. The sketchesby the late John Ainsworth were used with generous permission of the Thilmany Paper Division ofInternational Paper Co.

Stephen Temple of Black Clawson wasinstrumental in providing information and figuresof his company s equipment, as we re BonnyRinker of Andritz Sprout-Bauer, Inc.; BarbaraCrave and Elaine Cowlin of Beloit Corp.; HenryChen of James River Corp. in regards to CrownZellerbach Corp. material; Robert Gill of Pfizer,Inc.; Manuel Delgado of Straw Pulping Technology; R. H. Collins of Kamyr, Inc.; Jody Estabrookof Fiberprep; Maria Krofta of Krofta Eng. Corp.;Steven Khail of Manitowoc Eng. Co.; GarthRussell of Sunds Defibrator; and many others whoprovided information for this book.

Alfred Soeldner took many of the excellentscanning electron micrographs that are shown inthis volume. An extensive resource ofnot sin theOSU pulp and paper files was used in this work;contributions to these files were made by WalterBublitz, James Frederick, Jr., Philip Humphrey,and others, although it was not always clear whosupplied any given information. Alton Cam pbell,of the University of Idaho, contributed a copy ofhis class lecture notes, which were helpful to thiswork. Michael Ha as, of Longview Fibre, contributed a set of the books prepared for the Pulp andPaper M anufacturing Technology Program offeredthrough Lower Columbia College. Andre Caron,of the National Council of Air and Stream Improvement, supplied information concerningenvironmental regulations and control. Myoung-ku Lee prepared the index and assisted with manyaspects of this work . Troy Tow nsend and JinfengZhuang reviewed much of the manuscript.

Victor Hansen reviewed the paper machinewet end section and contributed m uch informationon water removal on flat wire machines.

Special acknowledgment is made to the lateKyosti Sarkanen who inspired me to start thisproject, sent copies of his class lecture notes tome, and was to have collaborated on this work.The editorial and production staff at AcademicPress contributed substantially to this work. Onecould not ask for a more reasonable publisher.

Additional recognition is given to Jerry H ull,my right-hand man who runs my laboratory whenI am not to be found for days at a time, for numerous suggestions of research activities and comments on this work, and editorial help on theman uscript. I would especially like to thank mywife, Lora Jasman, M.D., for numerous suggestions and editorial help.

Many other people have been involved in thereview process, but must remain publicly un-thanked as they remain unknown to me.

This book was typeset from WordPerfect5 .1 . Many of the drawings we re done withGeneric CADD 5.0. Many of the chemicalstructures were d rawn with Wimp ^ 2001. Manygraphs we re drawn with QuattroPro 3.0 . Theoriginal copy was printed on a Hewlett PackardLaserJet 4 with CG Times font.

A conscientious effort has been made toinclude trademarks when cited in the text. Anyomission is unintentional, and I welcome notification of any oversights.The inclusion of color plates has been madepossible by the generous support of the followingcompanies and organizations:

The Black Clawson CompanyContributors to Oregon State Univ.Pacific Section TappiRhone PoulencSpecialty ChemicalsBasic ChemicalsWillamette Industries, Incorporated

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