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Industrial pulping involves the large-scale liberation of fibers from lignocellulosic
plant material, by either mechanical or chemical processes. Chemical pulping
relies mainly on chemical reactants and heat energy to soften and dissolve lignin
in the plant material, partially followed by mechanical refining to separate fibers.
Mechanical pulping involves the pretreatment of wood with steam (and sometimes
also with aqueous sulfite solution) prior to the separation into fibrous material
by abrasive refining or grinding. Depending on its end-use, the material recovered
from such processes - the unbleached pulp - may be further treated by
screening, washing, bleaching and purification (removal of low molecular-weight
hemicelluloses) operations.
For any given type of production, the properties of the unbleached pulp are determined
by the structural and chemical composition of the raw material. The
variation in fiber dimension and chemical composition of some selected fibers is
detailed in Tab. 1.1.
By far, the predominant use of the fiber material is the manufacture of paper,
where it is re-assembled as a structured network from an aqueous solution. Fiber
morphology such as fiber length and fiber geometry have a decisive influence on
the papermaking process. A high fiber wall thickness to fiber diameter ratio
means that the fibers will be strong, but that they may not be able to bond as effectively
with each other in the sheet-forming process. Another property which is
important to fiber strength is the spiral angle of the longitudinal cellulose micelle
chains which constitute the bulk of the fiber walls. Moreover, certain chemical
properties of the fibers and the matrix material in which they are embedded must
also be taken into account.
Handbook of Pulp. Edited by Herbert Sixta
Copyright © 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH &Co. KGaA, Weinheim
ISBN: 3-527-30999-3
1 Introduction
Tab. 1.1Fiber dimensions and chemical composition of some selected
agricultural and wood fibers (adopted from [1-6]).
Introduction | Country Year | Volume 1 | Volume 2 | Preface | List of Contributors | Technology, End-uses, and the Market Situation | Total 3.65 | Recovered Paper and Recycled Fibers | North America |