Treesearch Insight: 11th Fundamental Mechanical Pulp Research Seminar April 3-4 2019
Welcome to the 11th Fundamental Mechanical Pulp Research Seminar in Norrköping, Sweden, April 3-4, 2019.
Last day to register is March 15
Program
Tuesday April 2 – Hospitalsgatan 30 Norrköping
18:00 Evening reception and registration ÅF Industry’s facilites
Wednesday April 3 – Renströmmen Norrköping city
Keynote speakers
Tommy Wiksand – Holmen Paper – A company in transition based on mechanical pulp
Thomas Granfeldt – Valmet – High Yield Pulping – now and forever!
Per Engstrand – FSCN – Research trends in high yield pulping
10:30 Coffee break
10:50 Process technology
Per Engstrand – Decrease in strength along a process line for SC paper
Lars Johansson – Chip washers – do we need them?
Christer Sandberg – The centre plate design effect refiner performance
Per Gradin – The Influence of the Cutting Rate on the Damage State of a Wood Chip
12:10 Lunch
13:10 Fibre Modification and new products
Tove Joelsson – Unique steel belt press technology for development of high strength wood-containing papers
Rana Alimohammadzadeh – Sustainable Surface Engineering of Chemimechanical Pulp Fibers by Synergistic Combination of Metal-free Catalysis and Polyelectrolyte Complexes
James Olson – Low Consistency Refined Microfibre: MFC alternative for High Bulk, High Tear and High Tensile Mechanical Pulp
David Myja – 4-acetamido-TEMPO-mediated oxidation of wood chips and thermomechanical pulp in large scale
14:30 Coffee break
Hafizur Rahman – Maximized wood chip impregnation efficiency validated by new miniaturized X-ray fluorescence techniques
Gunilla Pettersson – Market pulp of CTMP with double strength properties
Erik Persson – Spruce HT-CTMP revisited – A high yield, energy efficient pulp for future products
17:00 Seminar closing day 1
18:00 Guided tour Norrköping city
19:00 Dinner, Louis de Geer
Thursday April 4 – Holmen Braviken
08:30 Bus from Scandic City to Holmen Braviken Paper Mill
09:00 Welcome to seminar day 2
09:00 Modelling and control
Fredrik Bengtsson – Refining models for optimization and control – How to use such models for pulp and handsheet property estimations
Johan Sund – Effects of online pulp analysis frequency and chest retention time on refiner control performance
Anders Karlström – Deep learning in Refining Processes – A Pre-study of Internal and External Variables Impact on Pulp Properties
Johan Persson – Modelling feed to a double disk refiner
10:20 Coffee break
Magnus Heldin – On tool engagement in groundwood pulping — in-situ observations and numerical modelling at the microscale
11:00 Fibre characterisation
Göran Thungström – Evaluation of pulp by optical transmission and scattering measurement
Ola Johansson – Experiences of Single Point Morphology Measurements in Mechanical Pulp
Olof Ferritsius – Heterogeneity
12:00 Lunch
13:15 Study visit Holmen Braviken
Fredrik Holgersson, Mill Manager, Welcome to Braviken
Fredrik Bragsjö, Pulp mill Manager – TMP Braviken
14.00 Guided mill tour
15:15 Seminar closing
15:30 Bus to city
Questions concerning the seminar
Inger Axbrink, Mid Sweden University, FSCN research centre, Inger.axbrink@miun.se, phone +46 (0)10-1428899
Research related questions
Professor Per Engstrand, Mid Sweden University, FSCN research centre, e-mail per.engstrand@miun.se, phone +46 (0)101428649
Researcher Christer Sandberg, Holmen Paper AB, e-mail christer.sandberg@holmenpaper.com, phone +46 (0)703133375
