Environmental regulations coupled to market pressures have forced the pulp and paper industry to explore alternatives to chlorine based bleaching practices for the production of bleached kraft pulp.Various technologies and bleaching chemicals have been suggested as answers to kraft pulp bleaching concerns, from which oxygen, ozone and peroxides are the leading candidates for chlorine replacemen...

Rheological properties of pulp suspensions play a very important role in the industry, mainly due to the consumption of energy for transporting pulp among the different parts of the paper mill. In this work, we determined the rheology of longand short-fiber bleached kraft pulp suspensions by using a new rotational viscometer especially designed for their analysis. The experimental rheograms wer...

Effects of temperature the tetraethylammonium hydroxide (TEAH)/urea/cellulose solution on viscosity, surface tension, and size cellulose beads were investigated. Hardwood bleached kraft pulp (HwBKP) was used as a sauce dropping method utilized to fabricate beads. Temperature varied from 30℃ 50℃. When increased, viscosity decreased while tension increased. In addition, increasing resulted in inc...

In this study a poorly biodegradable (BOD/COD = 0.3) industrial alkaline ECF bleaching filtrate was treated using different advanced oxidation processes to evaluate their use in combined chemical-biological treatment aimed at increasing recalcitrant COD removal and improving final effluent quality. Oxidative treatments included ozonation combined with hydrogen peroxide (2, 5, 10, 20 mmol L(-1) ...

Pulp mill aerated lagoons are subject to perturbations owing to the chang-ing composition of the effluent and variations in climate. Such stresses may affect microbial activity and the biodegradation of chlorinated organic compounds. Studies revealed thatvariation in the culturable microbial population in a northern Ontario kraft pulp mitl la-goon is related to process parameters (w...