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What Are The Advantages Of Mechanical Pulping

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Mechanical pulping is typically used for softwood.One of the advantages of mechanical pulping is it has a great yield around 95% from dry weight of input material,however it requires great energy, because the resulted paper are opaque, weaker and easily to discoloration with the exposure to the light.The mechanical pulps are more weaker than the chemical pulps, however it ia more cheaper to produce (about 50% of the costs of chemical pulp). Moreover, they gives the yield with the ranging of 85–95%24.
Many methods used in mechanical pulping, the earliest method is groundwood process. This method is pressed length wise against a rough, revolving grinding stone. Another process, refiner mechanical pulp (RMP) utilizes chips are shredded into fibers between large rotating disks of a device called a refiner. The objective of refining are to increase contact area of cell wall through increasing flexibility and the second to increase the total surface area of fiberavaiable for bonding through fibrillitation the external surface
The basic RMP process has evolved to employ thermal and/or chemical presoftening of the chips, which reduces energy use and modifies …show more content…

The weaker paper or paperboard is one of the resulted damage from the fibers separated mechanically. However, this process resulted the yield of paper per unit volume of wood is still greater than that produced by chemical pulping, because since both lignin and cellulose fibers remain intact. The Pulp yields from all of the mechanical pulping processes typically are near 90 to 95 percent recovery, which is a much higher yield per unit of wood than with the chemical pulping methods because of the retention of lignin. However, paper made from mechanical pulp is discoloured and becomes brittle with age because of its lignin content, which results in a shorter useful life than paper made from chemical

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