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Advantages And Disadvantages 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 give the yield with the ranging from 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 …show more content…

There are three approaches to treatment: pre-treatment, post-treatment, and inter-stage treatment.
Pre-treatments of wood chips aim primarily to lower energy consumption. Post-treatments aim to flexibilize fibers, to produce better bonding in the paper. Inter-stage treatments aim at some combination of these two. Sulphonation is one common form ofchemical treatment. Here wood or fibers are reacted with sodium sulphite or sodium bisulphate to produce a reaction in which sulphonic acid breaks down the lignin in the wood …show more content…

Chemical thermomechanical pulping involves treating softwood chips with mild sulfite solutions to modify the lignin and partially delignify the wood prior to grinding in a refiner. High tear resistant paper is resulted from “sulfonation” treatment compare with thermomechanical, refiner, or stone-ground pulps. Chemical thermomechanical pulping results the decreasing of pulp yields between 85 to 90%, however, these yields are still higher than chemical pulping (40 to 56 %). Chemical thermomechanical pulping is commonly used for manufacture printing & writing papers, tissue and packaging boards
Alkaline and peroxide are commonly used in Chemical thermomechanical pulping. The Alkaline peroxide mechanical pulping (APMP) gives had several advantages, such as give a good pulp quality, eliminate a bleach plant, and energy savings compare to the conventional chemical thermomechanical pulping process. Therefore, APMP is a good pulping method for low-density hardwoods such as for aspen and eucalyptus28,

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