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23-Chem-B5 Pulp and Paper Technology

Worked solutions to 2 past sittings (2017), 10 questions. Pick a sitting, or start from a topic below.

Topics across the sittings

Topics that come up in more than one sitting, taken from the headings of our worked solutions. A topic counts once per sitting.

Questions by sitting

December 2017

  1. Question 1: Kraft Recovery Cycle — Evaporation, Recovery Boiler, Tall Oil, Digesters & Batch-Digester Mass Balance
  2. Question 2: ECF Bleach Plant — DEopDEpD Sequence, Effluent Parameters, Oxygen Delignification, ClO 2 Generation & Heat Recovery
  3. Question 3: Stock Preparation & Paper Machine Wet End — Freeness, Strength Testing, Cleaning, Drying & Fourdrinier Water/Fibre Balance
  4. Question 4: Mechanical Pulping — Furnish Species, TMP vs. Groundwood, Bleaching, Screening & Grinder Energy/Water Balance

Undated paper

  1. Question 1: ECF Bleach Chemistry, Oxygen Delignification & Chlorine Dioxide Generation/Dosing
  2. Question 2: Oxygen Delignification & ClO 2 Dosing — Wood Supply, Washing & Fresh Water
  3. Question 3: Mechanical Pulping — Furnish Species, Grinding vs. Refining, Bleaching, TMP Screening & Grinder Energy/Water Balance
  4. Question 4: Stock Testing, Pulp Cleaning, Paper Machine Drying & Fourdrinier Wet End — Water/Fibre Balance
  5. Question 5: Kraft Recovery Cycle — Evaporation, Recovery Boiler, Tall Oil, Digesters & Continuous-Digester Kappa Control
  6. Question 6: Batch-Digester House & Recausticizing Mass Balance