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Page 1: Paper Roll Quality and Roll Hardness

Pele Oy

Paper Roll Quality and Roll Hardness

February 2016

[email protected]

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Paper compressibility and roll hardness

Newsprint is compressible and bulky paper compared to LWC and coated woodfree.

During winding newsprint loses the original wound-in tension very fast and the rolls are easily too soft. High density papers are not compressed as much and rolls are harder.

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0 50 100 150 200

Co

mp

ressio

n,

%

Radial Pressure, kPa

Newsprint

LWC

Coated woodfree, gloss

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Roll stresses

Every wound paper layer on the roll surface

increases radial pressure and compress the

inner portion of the roll. Compression reduces

the original roll periphery and thus

circumferential tension as long as there will be

balance between the outer tension band and the

spring-back of the inner roll body.

When the balance is reached, there is a

negative circumferential tension inside the roll.

This tries to buckle the layers, but paper

stiffness and radial pressure prevent the

buckling in a good roll.

The positive tension band of a bulky paper is

only some centimeters from the roll surface.

On glossy SC and LWC rolls this positive tension

band is much thicker and the highest pressure is

reached deeper in the roll.

Compressed diameter

after winding additional layers

Outside

diameter

Original diameter

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Internal roll stresses in a good roll

In a good roll the radial pressure between paper

layers is highest against the core and then

constant or slightly decreasing to the roll

periphery.

If radial pressure P can be measured,

circumferential tension T can be calculated:

• T = - P - dP/dr x r

• where r = roll radius/core outside radius

• P = internal roll pressure, kPa

• T = internal web tension, kPa

In a newsprint roll P can be 300 kPa (3 bar) and if

the curve is flat in the middle (dP/dr = 0) tension T

is also - 300 kPa (= MD compression).

If paper caliper is 0.07 mm we get a negative

tension of - 21 N/m.

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Roll stresses and paper properties

The positive tension band on top of the

roll is only some centimeters thick. Inside

this band paper is plastically strained and

under the band plastically compressed

during storage. This paper deformation

reduces all roll stresses.

In the following unwind process paper on

the roll surface has lower elongation and

dynamic stretch. This might have

influence on paper runnability and breaks

during flying splice.

Paper inside the roll is more compressed

and has better smoothness, lower bulk

and caliper, lower porosity and better

elongation and dynamic stretch

properties.

Main part of the paper is not similar as a

sample from the roll surface.

Can be runnability problem

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Example of paperboard properties in a roll

Physical properties of paper are changed in a roll due to the stresses during winding and

on roll storage. Paperboard (here FBB) changes more than printing paper.

The picture below is an example of paper gloss, which is about 10 % higher (about 6 %-

unit) on the core compared to the roll surface.

This is from a two-drum winder. Belt supported winder gives more even result.

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Distance from roll core 0 750 mm

Glo

ss

, %

JUHO WALDÉN, 2014

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Winding and ”hardness memory”

Radial pressure in a machine reel is normally decreasing towards the periphery so that the surface is softer than the start of the winding. One reason is that the nip widens when the reel diameter grows. In addition, all paper reels have low radial pressure on the surface due to less and less pressing layers.

Paper layers on the machine reel surface are less compressed than inside the reel (they are thicker on the surface).

Winding is a very dynamic process. Web travel from unwind to rewind can be some 10 m and winder speed 40 m/s. The delay time from unwind to rewind is then 0.25 s. In this short time paper is without compression and it tries to expand to the original thickness. However, the time is so short that the thickness inside the machine reel is almost ”copied” to the winder roll and the compression due to winder parameters still reduce the thickness.

The result is that the first set from machine reel surface tends to be soft at start and hardness is increasing towards the roll surface. The last set tends to be more constant in hardness and especially soft starts or roll deformations are not as big problems.

Diameter

Hardness

after winder

3rd set

1st set

Diameter

Radial pressure

of parent reel

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Roll density measurement

Online roll density measurements can be made in winding or unwinding supposing that

the original paper thickness is constant. This is possible by calculating paper caliper

inside the roll from the angular and surface speeds of the roll.

The picture below shows typical newsprint roll density distributions and how the first

set on the winder is softer than the other sets.

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660

665

670

675

680

685

690

695

100 300 500 700 900

Roll diameter, mm

Ro

ll d

en

sit

y, k

g/m

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First set

Second and last sets

First online density measurements

Pekka Komulainen, 1977

Veitsiluoto, Finland

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Paper roll is a spiral

Paper roll is not a cylinder formed of paper rings but a

continuous spiral of paper with continuous MD tension

(plus or minus).

CD differences of web tension, strain and original web

length are important due to the spiral form.

Differences in web length and strain also have effect on

roll hardness in a spiral.

Often an accuracy of 0.1% is enough in papermaking. If

we have this difference in original paper length, it means

that after winding only 1000 m we would have the longer

part of the web one meter ahead of the shorter part. We

need web tension to even out these differences.

When crepe wrinkles inside the roll are formed, it is not

only one layer slipping but sometimes two or more layers.

This causes a longer total movement and more severe

damages between the slipping layers.

Due to the slipping, telescoping can be an additional

problem.

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Example of the spiral web effect

If you measure drum speed difference in

a two-drum winder you will find, that the

front drum has slower speed in spite of

higher torque.

The explanation is that there is all the

time one web layer less on the front

drum compared to the rear drum.

Theoretical curve can be calculated. The

speed difference is higher in the

beginning and depends on the paper

caliper.

Some winders have speed difference

control instead of torque control.

However, if there are several paper

grades it will be very difficult to find

correct speed difference curve for each

paper grade.

0.00

0.02

0.04

0.06

0.08

0.10

0.12

0.14

100 400 700 1000

Roll diameter, mmS

peed

dif

fere

nce, %

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Winding parameters for two-drum winder

1 Web tension, T

2a Rider roll load, N

2b Roll weight, N

3 Torque (Winding force), T

Roll diameter

Roll tightness

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= TNT

Pictures: Valmet

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Roll hardness in radial direction

Ideally the hardness should be slightly decreasing from the core to the periphery.

However, this is only possible when the winder has center drive and support.

More common than center drive winder is a two-drum winder, where roll’s own weight

increases nip force and normally some other optimization must be made.

Picture: R. Duane Smith

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Typical two-drum winder hardness distribution

It is quite easy to get a tight and hard start to

the roll by using high torque.

When the roll diameter increases the roll nip

force decreases due to the geometry. In

addition, effect of torque decreases very fast

in the beginning.

The only way to keep roll hardness constant

would be fast increased rider roll load. For

most papers the rider roll load of large roll

diameters should be so high that there would

be wrinkles and bursts in the roll.

When the roll grows its own weight causes

very high nip load. To compensate this

hardening effect, web tension should be

reduced. However, too small web tension

together with high nip load can cause

wrinkles and bursts.

Roll diameter

Roll

Hardness

OK

Too hard

Too soft

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Winding and CD profile properties

It would be easier to make directly sheeted paper without

winding like in a pulp dryer.

Total thickness of a paper pile under pressure is related to

original caliper and compression properties of the paper.

The diameter of a paper roll is related not only to the

caliper and compressibility but also to the original web

length and MD strain properties of the paper web.

To make good rolls we should have online measurements

of all the four variables. Sometimes we measure and

control only paper caliper without any information of the

three other profiles.

If there are CD profile related problems after winding,

papermakers usually argue that grammage, moisture and

caliper profiles are straight.

One should first think if these measurements are correct

and relevant and then look, how much worse the other

profiles become by controlling the basic profiles straight.

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Pile of paper

Pile thickness depends on

- paper caliper

- paper compressibility

Paper roll

Roll diameter depends on

- caliper & compressibility

- web length & strain

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Paper elongation and roll hardness

The picture below shows how sheet length or elasticity effect on roll hardness and

bagginess.

If web caliper is constant, longer part of the web forms softer roll or even bagginess

and wrinkles.

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Web caliper, length and reel hardness

To make even reel hardness in cross-machine direction it is important to have correct web

length related to the roll diameter in every CD position.

For heavy calendered, high density papers constant caliper is more important (paper is not

any more compressible to even out reel diameter differences). For bulky webs length and

caliper differences are both important.

Length Caliper

Thin Average Thick

Short Good Hard Rock-hard

Average Soft Good Hard

Long Very soft

Soft Good

When = π = 3,14 it means that roll hardness is even L

D

L

D

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Roll Hardness Measurements

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Roll quality testing

Cross Direction Testing

Backtender's stick (wooden

stick)

Beloit Rho-meter

Schmidt hammer

Parotester

Tapio RQP

On-line backtender’s friend

Roll diameter profile

measurement

Valmet iRoll

ACA Systems RoQ

Radial testing

Cameron gap test

Smith needle

Improved needles or plastic strips

J-line measurement

Core torque wrench test

Tapio RQP

Wit-Wot Roll Analyzer

On-line density measurement

ACA Systems RoQ

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Roll density vs. roll hardness

Roll density and hardness were measured from three different kraftliner grades.

Correlation is very good. Density was calculated from roll weight and compared to

average measured hardness.

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Ro

ll D

en

sit

y

Roll Hardness

Picture:

Linus Söremark

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Example of a radial hardness measurement

Normally roll hardness profiles are measured in CD direction. However, it is

also possible to use modern impact devices also for radial hardness direction

measurement (example below).

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Picture:

Linus Söremark

Distance from core

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Machine reel hardness profiles

The basic shape of the CD profiles in a machine reel is quite constant.

This picture shows relative hardness profiles of four sets measured on the

unwind roll surface from the winder.

Picture: Sami Hyötynen

Metso Paper Oy

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Parent reel and roll profile forms

The shape of the curves from parent reel compared to customer rolls is very similar.

The average hardness of customer rolls is higher.

Soft spots in parent reel are about 20 units softer than in customer rolls.

D.M.S. WANIGARATNE et al.

APPITA 2010

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Parent reel and roll hardness profiles

Customer rolls are harder than parent reel.

First set made from the parent reel surface is softer than the second set from the inner

part of the parent reel.

First set from parent reel surface

Second set from parent reel surface

Customer roll hardness profiles

Parent reel hardness profile

Pictures from:

www.doria.fi/bitstream/handle/10024/305

58/TMP.objres.156.pdf?sequence=1

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Caliper and reel hardness

Reel hardness of 205 g/m2 packaging board correlates very well with caliper

profile.

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D.M.S. WANIGARATNE et al..

APPITA 2010-317

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Effect of supercalender on hardness profile

After coating the hardness profile of LWC paper is quite even (blue).

After supercalendering there is more short and long range variation (red with hard center).

Picture: Ilari Ikonen, 2010

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CD caliper profile and reel hardness

Caliper as such is not very important. However, papermakers try to control the process

so that the shape of the CD caliper profile is straight (why?).

This does not guarantee a straight hardness profile and it is common, that edge rolls

have too soft ends after winder.

The second roll from the right shows a too large local hardness difference leading to

problems such as bagginess, bursts or corrugations.

Four rolls in a set, edge

rolls are soft at edges.

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Roll hardness and paper caliper profiles

Typical CD hardness profiles of

uncoated magazine paper.

The profiles are from the top:

grammage, caliper and roll hardness.

It can be seen that caliper follows

grammage.

Final problem is the marked red range

of corrugation, where all profiles reach

the minimum.

Hardness is an accurate measurement

compared to the other measurements.

The biggest relative difference is in

hardness profile (over 10%).

Picture: Juha Turkki

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Coated paper hardness profiles

The picture below shows machine reel hardness profiles of woodfree coated paper.

Profiles have been measured from winder unwind before winding each set of rolls.

There were totally five sets.

It is typical that the first set is always softer than the other four sets.

Picture: Teemu Pasi

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Example of several hardness profiles

Example of 17 successive SC paper roll profiles from same CD position.

The stability of the curve form is quite good.

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Picture:

Sami Uhlbäck

2008

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SC paper runnability in gravure printing

The upper curve caused web breaks in printing (too much roll hardness variation).

The lower curve run without problems.

Picture: Sami Uhlbäck, 2008

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Local faults in hardness profile

Slack areas increase web breaks and paper waste.

In this picture a 20 mm wide slack area is found 100 mm from the roll edge.

This requires high resolution measurement.

Slack area

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Caliper and hardness control

Caliper control with calender is directly seen on hardness profile.

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CD shrinkage profile in paper drying

This shrinkage profile is from a modern newsprint machine with single felted dryers.

One meter from the edges has 3-8% shrinkage while it is in the middle less than 2%.

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Picture:

Steve I’Anson

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Thickness scanner vs. iRoll CD profile (Valmet)

Hardness profile is a basic roll quality measurement. It cannot be replaced by

online caliper measurement. Valmet iRoll is a good alternative, but very

expensive. The following is what Valmet comments on caliper measurement:

There are four main issues with thickness scanner performance. These are:

1. Resolution is too low, in practice 1 micrometer or worse. The needed

resolution should be at least 10x better. Quality Control System (QCS)

suppliers sometimes state that they have better resolution but that is not true

in reality.

2. Requires constant care. There is a constant need for cleaning, calibration

and other maintenance and tuning. Without this the whole measurement

concept fails to work. In practice, it's not possible to provide this constant

service in a mill environment.

3. Caliper is not the right thing to measure. To assure good reel buildup and

runnability, the primary parameter is the hardness/diameter profile.

Thickness is only a secondary parameter that effects hardness and diameter.

4. Web breaks are caused by contacting caliper measurement scanners.

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Continuous hardness measurement on winder

Due to the edge shrinkage on paper drying the edges are normally soft and loose under

the rider roll on winder. On a two-drum winder this is a demanding situation.

It is very dangerous to press edges more than the center on rider roll or otherwise wrinkles

will arise (loose web and high nip load at the same time). To avoid this, roll hardness

profile is normally slightly lower at edges or rider rolls are installed slightly higher at edges.

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Picture: Valmet

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Typical Roll Defects

Air to

roll

Uneven

hardness

profile

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Main problems of machine reels

The material is from 2004. The mills were printing paper mills. The most common

problems seem to be wrinkles, TNT control and CD profiles/bursts.

The main problems are connected together and could be reduced with new type of reels.

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Collected from several newsprint and

magazine paper mills

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Pressure from spool to paper

The problem: Wrinkles and bursts on reel bottom. Coated board: glossy

spots close to the spool. Bottom broke up to 2% = 2000 m of 100 km.

Problem areas

There is more problems at edges when the spool is thin, reel is wide, diameter is large, basis weight is low and paper density is high.

Thin groundwood papers are more sensitive. CD profiles are important.

Reel hardness, hardness distribution, air between layers and machine speed have influence.

Center drive, larger diameter reel spools and new type of reel changes can solve the problem.

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Picture: Valmet

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Main problems on printing paper winders

The most common problems seem to be dishing or uneven roll edge, CD profiles,

crepe wrinkles and loose cores or bad start.

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14

Dishing/uneven edge

Profile

Wrinkles

Loose cores/bad start

Trim

Bursts

Splicing

SMB's

Spreading

Roll bouncing

Slitting

Vibration

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Collected from several newsprint and

magazine paper mills

Draft only

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Product quality control by hardness profiler

The end product of a paper mill is the customer roll. Even

if paper is sheeted, it must first form a good roll.

Papermakers normally measure grammage, moisture

and caliper online. However, the correlation of roll quality

with online measurements is often very poor and the

evaluation of roll quality must be made by hand and

visually.

Roll hardness measurement reflects roll quality much

better than any other profiler from paper itself.

If the hardness measurement is easy, fast and accurate,

it could even replace in many cases online CD profile

measurements.

Mill information system can draw complete CD profiles

from individual roll measurements and send the

information to the laboratory and operators.

Normally the need to adjust CD profiles is only when

some changes are made and that would suit very well for

roll hardness measurements to control paper quality.

Severe roll hardness and

diameter variation of wrapped

LWC roll

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Corrugations or rope marks

Roll hardness/roll diameter is different on

each side of rope mark.

Rope mark propensity can be found with

hardness measurement before it can be

seen.

Root causes for corrugations are:

• Differences in paper cross-direction profiles

of caliper, compressibility, tension and

elasticity

• Differences of nip load in cross-direction or

web travel from unwind to rewind

• Too hard winding

• Most problematic with high density papers

(glossy papers)

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Bagginess

Bagginess can be hidden inside the roll and will show up when paper is unwound in

converting. Roll hardness and web tension profiles can easily show this kind of

bagginess propensity before it can be seen.

Typical for bagginess is:

Out-of-plane buckling (at low tension)

Bagginess is caused by CD profile variation (grammage, moisture, caliper etc.) together

with hard winding and low elasticity of paper

Typical for thin, hard calendered papers with coating or high filler content

Can be seen only inside the roll or on top of the roll

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Cross machine direction burst

This burst is identified by a break in the sheet across

the roll face. This burst is generally found near the

core or in the outer few centimeters of the roll that is

wound too tight (hard).

The burst can be across the full face of the roll or a

partial burst just enough to break down the web

under stress.

If rider roll is pressing too much, this can be in the

middle of the roll radius.

Reasons are:

• Too hard roll

• Tight web together with high caliper

• High MD tension and nip pressure

• Low MD strength and stretch (low TEA)

• Very dry paper

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Crepe wrinkles and their reasons

Combination of low web tension and high nip load

Hard area on top of soft area or increasing hardness to the roll periphery

Low web caliper/grammage and low MD stiffness

Low coefficient of friction, slippery inside the roll (DIP is today well washed and COF is

quite high, the first DIP plants produced very slippery paper)

Hardness variation in CD profile, loose and thick web at edges

Uneven pressure from rider roll

MD

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Cross sections of crepe wrinkles

(David Mcdonald, 2014) Crepe wrinkles start from the roll edge

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J-line and crepe wrinkles

Internal slipping of paper layers under the roll surface

(decreasing tension) is measured with J-line

measurement.

Shooting or marking a roll radius and then winding

layers on top of that will move the marked layers

towards the winding direction (= loosening the original

web tension).

If the original tension is low and slippage high there will

be a negative tension in the machine direction resulting

in buckle of the layers (= crepe wrinkle).

Very bad combination is a high nip load, a low web

tension and a low COF. This is most common at the

machine reel edge, where caliper can be high and web

length long (=loose edges). In addition edges can be

dry and thus COF is low.

It is best to have curved CD profile = slightly lower

caliper at edges to avoid crepe wrinkles and other

problems.

Read more: Finishingnet.com

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Sensitivity to crepe wrinkles

There will be slippage and possibility to get crepe wrinkles, when

- F > µ • p • A + S

- F = buckling force from nip action = f(N and nip width)

- A = area of possible sliding

- S = paper stiffness force

To avoid crepe wrinkles paper static COF must be high as well as roll hardness, but nip load should be low.

Low paper stiffness and caliper increase possibilities to get crepe wrinkles.

With a soft drum cover the buckling force and J-lines are smaller than with a hard winder drum. Possibility to get crepe wrinkles is very small.

Picture: Valmet

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J-line measurement

When measuring J-line all possible safety

measures should be considered. A safe

method is to stop the winder, draw a radial

line to the end, and then start winding again.

After winding the J-line can be measured,

photographed and analyzed.

This method, however, is not correct,

because stopping and starting have effect on

winding forces and slippage of the layers.

The old, but not so safe method is to shoot a

chalked special string against the rotating roll

end and then look the line after winding (right

picture).

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Picture: J.K. Good

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Effect of process on crepe wrinkle formation

Crepe wrinkle is a common defect at web edges. All parameters from raw materials to the winder have effect on crepe wrinkle formation – especially at edges.

In unwinding it is easy to feel the wrinkles by hand. If there are wrinkles already in the machine reel you can feel them on unwind reel at winder.

Main winder wrinkles must be checked at salvage winder.

To improve the situation all the papermaking process should be improved – not only winder parameters. At the edges the situation can be described as follows:

Higher CD

shrinkage

CD control

of B.W

Lower B.W.

to dryers

Faster drying

at edges

Large roll

diameter

Permanent

edge strain

Lower MD

E modulus

Strain on reel

surface

Loose

edges

Larger reel

diameter

Web run,

spreading

Higher rider

roll load

High nip

load

Dry edges

to dryers

Higher

caliper

Higher

porosity

Higher dryer

temperature Sheet

flutter

High paper

density

Low web

tension

Crepe

wrinkles

Low paper

static COF

Low paper

MD stiffness

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Effect of splicing on roll structure

Rolls having winder splices are never as good as

normal rolls.

If the splice is made because of web break in the

machine reel, the winder must be decelerated

before the splice, which increases web tension.

During the splicing the web can be loose, which

decreases roll hardness.

After the splice winder is accelerated, which

reduces roll hardness.

On top of this loose part nip effect is higher and

roll hardness is increased again.

On a rewinder (salvage winder) dynamic forces

are smaller and spliced rolls can be better.

Roll hardness

Roll diameter

Splice

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Transport and roll storage

Sometimes rolls are stored

horizontally on each other.

If rolls are too soft they will form

out-of-round.

On a two-drum winder soft rolls

always have harder surface, and

they easily get buckled and show

starring on the end.

Internally soft rolls are formed in

the positions where rider roll is

not contacting the rolls.

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Roll ridges and hardness

Rolls with hardness variation can look quite nice on the winder, but after

storage and transport there can be severe bagginess on the hard areas.

This kind of bagginess is higher on the roll surface, where the nip load

and diameter differences have been highest.

Original picture: Roisum

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Starred roll and hardness

Stars or paper buckling in the machine

direction is caused by negative MD

tension inside the roll.

The basic reason is increasing roll

hardness towards the roll surface.

Starring could occur later when the roll

gets external forces and impacts in

handling, transport and storage.

It is very important that rolls are not

stored like in the picture.

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Dished roll or telescoping

Reasons can be:

Bad spreading (D-bar), misalignment of

incoming webs

Misalignment of winder rolls

Unsymmetrical diameter and hardness

of paper roll (CD caliper or tension

differences)

Soft cores in CD direction

Core chuck pressure is too low

Air entrainment with high speed

Low paper-to-paper COF (Coefficient Of

Friction)

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Why rewinder (salvage winder) makes hard rolls?

If only one roll is pressed with rider rolls there is good contact. On the main winder edge rolls may be smaller in diameter and not pressed at all at the end of winding.

Bulky paper like newsprint is compressed plastically and deformed after main winder. Thinner and denser paper makes harder rolls. Especially roll surface is made on rewinder from the hardest part of the unwinding roll. Hardness is easily increased towards the roll surface at the rewinder.

Sometimes web tension control has same total force for wide and narrow rolls. Then the narrowest rolls can have very high tension (= force/width).

Drum radius of a two-drum rewinder is normally smaller than that on the main winder (e.g. 550 mm vs. 850 mm). Narrow nip – harder roll from own weight.

Winder speed of a rewinder is about half or the main winder speed (e.g. 1200 vs. 2400 m/min). Higher speed – more air into the roll, higher centrifugal force and faster nip impact all reduce roll hardness on the main winder.

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If the roll is too soft, especially in the center, there will be handling damages such as

starring and out-of-roundness. Additionally, there can be crepe wrinkles or telescoping.

If the roll is too hard there can be bagginess and bursts.

Too soft or too hard rolls tolerate less roll hardness variation than rolls with optimum

hardness. There is always some CD profile variation in the hardness and it is important

to find the optimum average hardness level to avoid roll broke.

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Roll hardness and roll deformation

It is clear that harder rolls keep roundness better in handling than soft rolls.

Permanent deformation grows very fast when the roll is softer.

However, it is evident that the roll should be hard inside but softer on the top.

Unfortunately two-drum winder tends to make the opposite.

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Conclusion

The following four things are most important to be remembered about roll quality:

The end product of papermaking process is a high quality paper roll and its quality must be followed.

The highest cost broke of the papermaking process is at the end.

All faults should be corrected where they first appear (in the process phase and position). It is never

possible to totally compensate earlier fault with later correction.

Winding cannot make paper better, but in many cases product quality can be much lower after

winding.

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