FMPRS seminar in Norrköping

Keynotespeakers

• Tommy Wiksand – Holmen Paper - A company in transition based on mechanical pulp
• Thomas Granfeldt – Valmet - High Yield Pulping - now and forever!
• Per Engstrand – FSCN - Research trends in high yield pulping

Here are the presentations during the seminar

Process technology

• Per Engstrand – Decrease in strength along a process line for SC paper
• Lars Johansson – Chip washers – do we need them?
• Christer Sandberg – The centre plate design affects refiner performance
• Per Gradin – The Influence of the Cutting Rate on the Damage State of a Wood Chip

Fibre Modification and new products

• Tove Joelsson – Unique steel belt press technology for development of high strength wood-containing papers
• Rana Alimohammadzadeh – Sustainable Surface Engineering of Chemimechanical Pulp Fibers  by Synergistic Combination of Metal-free Catalysis and Polyelectrolyte Complexes
• James Olson – Low Consistency Refined Microfibre: MFC alternative for High Bulk, High Tear and High Tensile Mechanical Pulp
• David Myja – 4-acetamido-TEMPO-mediated oxidation of wood chips and thermomechanical pulp in large scale
• Hafizur Rahman – Maximized wood chip impregnation efficiency validated by new miniaturized X-ray fluorescence techniques
• Sven Norgren – Market pulp of CTMP with double strength properties 
• Erik Persson – Spruce HT-CTMP revisited – A high yield, energy efficient pulp for future products

Modelling and control

• Fredrik Bengtsson – Refining models for optimization and control – How to use such models for pulp and handsheet property estimations
• Johan Sund – Effects of online pulp analysis frequency and chest retention time on refiner control performance
• Anders Karlström – Deep learning in Refining Processes – A Pre-study of Internal and External Variables Impact on Pulp Properties
• Johan Persson - Modelling feed to a double disc refiner
• Magnus Heldin – On tool engagement in groundwood pulping — in-situ observations and numerical modelling at the microscale

Fibre characterisation 

• Göran Thungström – Evaluation of pulp by optical transmission and scattering measurement
• Ola Johansson – Experiences of Single Point Morphology Measurements in Mechanical Pulp
• Olof Ferritsius – Heterogeneity

Study visit Holmen Braviken

Fredrik Holgersson, Mill Manager,  Welcome to Braviken
Fredrik Bragsjö, Pulp mill Manager – TMP Braviken
Guided mill tour, Christer Sandberg, Holmen is the guide!