Corn stalk, an agricultural waste, was valorized by the production of cellulose nanofibers (CNF), which were tested for improving recycled paper properties. CNF from eucalyptus kraft pulp (E-CNF) was used as a reference. Addition of 0.5% wt. CNF produced from corn organosolv pulp (C-CNF) to recycled paper increased the tensile index by 20%, whereas the same improvement with E-CNF was achieved a...

The importance of recycling and utilization of recycled fiber has recently been recognized because of concerns about environmental issues and economic aspects. In spite of several advantages offered by paper recycling such as wood savings through substitution of virgin pulp and reduction in chemical usage, recycled pulp also contains plenty of fines having high relative surface area and hig...

this study has been conducted in order to investigate the effect of using onp recycled fibers on the mechanical and optical properties of local mixed hardwoods kraft pulp at iran wood and paper industry (chooka). onp and virgin kraft pulp have been prepared from chooka’s waste paper storage and pulping digester, respectively. onp has been repulped in the common method as used by paper recycling...

wood resources, non-wood plants and recycled papers are the common raw materials of papermaking. shortage of raw materials, is a challenging problem in developing pulp and paper industry. in this study, cladophora green algae was used as a new source of cellulosic fiberfor pulping and papermaking.. cladophora algae was cooked with cold soda method and then was mixed with nssc pulp at 10,20 and ...

In order to improve the properties of thermomechanical pulp (TMP), the influences of the TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidyl-1-oxyl radical)mediated oxidation on recycled TMP properties were investigated, and the impacts of recycling process on TEMPO-mediated oxidized TMP properties were studied as well. The results showed that TEMPOmediated oxidation is an effective way to enhance the recycled...

The closure of water circuits within pulp and paper mills has resulted in a higher contamination load of the final mill effluent, which must consequently be further treated in many cases to meet the standards imposed by the legislation in force. Different treatment strategies based on advanced oxidation processes (ozonation and TiO2-photocatalysis), and their combination with biological treatme...

The effects of the Fenton reagent on recycled unbleached pulp in the absence and presence of a model chemical contaminant, the p-hydroxybenzoic acid (HBA), were studied. In the absence of HBA, the Fenton system clearly modified the chemical and papermaking properties of the pulp. The kappa number was reduced and the specific light absorption coefficient was increased, indicating lignin modifica...

This study presents an equation developed to estimate, from zero and short-span tensile tests, the average length of load-bearing elements (the distance between serious defects along a fiber length) within a sheet of paper. The equation was used to examine the effect of drying treatment on the average loadbearing element length in paper made from five furnishes: two radiata pine kraft pulps, a ...

The use of chemithermomechanical (CTMP) pulp from rapeseed residues as raw material for the manufacturing of linerboard and fluting medium grades was investigated. For this purpose, different alternatives for improving mechanical and optical properties of rapeseed CTMP were studied, and the addition of nanofibrillated cellulose (NFC) was proposed to decrease the intensity of the beating process...