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
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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
4. Using recycled fibers from paper has several advantages, including lower cost to recycle paper than produce pulp.
b. Pulp and Paper Manufacturing: Grinds timber into pulp and converts the pulp into various grades of paper and cardboard (International Paper)
Paper recycling, on the other hand has been around for much longer. Pulp and paper plants in Canada have been using recycled material for more than 60 years (Bourdages, 1993, para. 4). One of the most obvious environmental benefits of using recycled paper materials, is that it will help to reduce the amount of trees being cut down for production of new paper. Overall, it is evident that there is an established recycling effort in Canada, featuring both positive and negative aspects.
It is better for the environment. We don't have to waste as many trees as we do for paper. The production of paper would stop and we wouldn't need to kill trees. It also doesn’t put smoke in the air.
There seems to be little doubt that the present wood supply cannot withstand in-definitely the demands placed upon it, and with increased scarcity economy in the use of wood will become imperative. This effect is already apparent in many wood-using industries, and although the paper industry consumes only about 3 per cent of the total forest cut, it is probable that it will be affected through this economy. Our forests are being cut three times as fast as they grow (USDA).
While the materials rather than the method of production ultimately determine the quality and longevity of any paper, handmade paper exhibits many desirable qualities that can only be emulated in machine-made paper with difficulty, if at all. Some of these qualities can be attributed to physical differences between handmade and machine-made papers. The unidirectional movement of the belt of the papermaking machine, for example, results in a strong grain direction of the paper fibers. In handmade paper, on the other hand, the vat man typically shakes the mould in four directions, so the resulting sheet displays little to no grain direction (Hunter 455). As a result of this difference, handmade paper is said to have a drape or flow that is unmatched by machine-made paper (Meirhusby 62). Much of the draw of handmade paper, however, involves the much more subjective aesthetic character of each sheet of paper. Silvie Turner summarizes this quality as “the beauty, the vitality, the depth, the design, the character and expressiveness, the level of skill involved, the difference of a handmade sheet” (Turner 41), while Walter Hamady calls it simply “voice” (Vander Weele). No matter how you describe it in words, handmade paper shows
Birch Paper Company is a medium sized partly integrated company that produces Kraft papers and paperboard. There are four producing divisions and one timberland division which supplies part of the company’s pulp requirements. The divisions are
While manufacturing papers we use wood pulp from trees, producing plastic requires the use of
Bio-materials are one of the most vital materials that are used in the medicine industry in recent times. These materials are basically classified under this class, since they perform or modify the natural function in an individual. These materials can be used on most of the living creatures with a few modifications.
The Oregon CS1500 is engineered with an automated chain braking system that is designed for the added safety for the users
Clamping-clean the earlier injection and then apply oil to ease the application of the next process
Logging tropical hardwoods like teak, mahogany, rosewood and other timber for furniture, building materials, charcoal and other wood products is big business and creates big profits. Several species of tropical hardwoods are imported by developed counties, including America, just to build coffins which are then buried or burned. The demand, extraction and consumption of tropical hardwoods has been so massive that some countries which have been traditional exporters of tropical hardwoods are now importing the wood because they have already exhausted their supply by destroying their native rainforests in slash and burn operations. It is anticipated that The Philippines, Malaysia, The Ivory Coast, Nigeria and Thailand will all run out of rainforest hardwood for export within the next five years.
In the production of Ribbed Smoked Sheets and Air Dried Sheets, latex from the trees is carried back to the rolling house for processing. In certain cases where the plantation is located far away from the rolling house, ammonia is added to the latex to prevent early coagulation. Early coagulation of rubber particles before the processing stage leads to the production of low grade sheets and hence an economic loss. If ammonia is added to prevent early coagulation, then higher amounts of acid are required during the coagulation stage. At the rolling house the latex is mixed with water in a ratio of 2:1 to improve its consistency, and formic acid (5ml each tray) which helps in coagulation. A mixture of 2 litres rubber
We live in a time where technology is improved and advanced every single day. The health care environment is no exception. The technology used for health care is constantly being refined and advanced in hopes to allow even better and more efficient care. One of these technological advancements that could revolutionize health care is 3D printing. Benefits 3D printing could provide include construction of prosthetic limbs as well as anatomical models aimed at determining patients’ needs and many more (Ventola, 2014). However, there are also disadvantages of this technology and one of the main disadvantages is the security issues it presents. There are both advantages and disadvantages of 3D printing but there is no denying the promise of this technology and the potential impact it could have.
Grinding is a metal cutting operation performed by means of abrasive particles rigidly mounted on a rotating wheel. Each of the abrasive particles act as a single point cutting tool and grinding wheel acts as a multipoint cutting tool. The grinding operation is used to finish the work pieces with extremely high quality of surface finish and accuracy of shape and dimension. Grinding is one of the widely accepted finishing operations because it removes material in very small size of chips 0.25 to 0.50 mm. It provides accuracy of the order of 0.000025 mm. grinding of very hard material is also possible.