Buckman Laboratories International, Inc.

Philip M Hoekstra

David Oppong

Daniel E Glover

Thomas E McNeel

Stephen D Bryant

Richard A Clark

Xiangdong Zhou

Christopher L Wiatr

Bernard Janse

Richard Lusk

Kevin J MacDonald

David Buist

Vincent Roy

Colin Ruemmele

Walter Bernard Hill, Jr

Weiping Ban

James William Fitzhenry

Rita De Cassia Bortoto Porto

Robert J Turnbull

Lowell F Lott

Brian G Hart

Yong Zou

Michael R Elsey

Michael L Corcoran

Kevin J Macdonald

Brian G; Hart

Walter B Hill

James W Fitzhenry

A method is provided for decision support in regulating an adhesive coating applied to Yankee dryers. Online sensors are configured to continuously measure stock characteristics, and additional sensors provide actual stock flow rate and machine speed. A controller predicts potential natural coating application from a fibrous sheet generated from the stock to the Yankee dryer surface, substantially in real time, based on the measured characteristics and sensed actual machine values. An output signal may be provided to a display unit, wherein an optimal adhesive coating feed rate may be determined and displayed for operator decision support. The controller may in an automatic mode be configured to regulate the adhesive coating feed rate based on a comparison of one or more determined optimal values associated with respective actual values. The method may include identifying fiber source changes in real time, and predicting a natural coating potential based partly on predetermined correlations.

Real time regulation of Yankee dryer coating based on predicted natural coating transfer

Real time regulation of yankee dryer coating based on predicted natural coating transfer

Methods to improve dewatering in industrial and municipal sludges are described. One method involves admixing sludge from a papermaking process and modified cellulose to provide modified sludge with the modified cellulose present in an effective amount to improve dewatering in the treated sludge, such as in allowing use of reduced amounts of coagulant and/or reducing dewatering times, increased dewatered volumes, and reduced sludge product moisture contents, and the like. The dewatered sludge may be formed into a dried particulate, and may be used as filler or other component of concrete, rubber, asphalt, plastics, resin-wood composite products, and other composite products.

Use of celluloses in sludge dewatering, and sludge products thereof

Methods and systems are provided for producing market pulp which include treatment of pulp with diverse ionic compounds before pulp drying. Cationically and anionically charged compounds can be used to treat pulp before pulp drying to improve pulp dewatering performance and efficiency in the production of market pulp. Market pulp products containing the treatment compounds are also described.

Method and system for producing market pulp and products thereof

A method is provided for controlling organic contaminants, such as xylans, pitch or both, that interfere with bleaching of fibers and/or cause other interference(s) in papermaking systems. The method includes contacting fibers before any bleaching thereof with a composition which contains a hemicellulolytic enzyme and an organic contaminant removal adjuvant to liberate the organic contaminants from the fibers. The treated fibers can then be bleached and further used, for example, in making paper. The present invention also relates to the treatment compositions and to paper products made with fiber materials treated with these compositions. A method of enhancing enzymatic degradation of a substrate as well as formulations and systems for achieving the same are also provided. Various substrates can be degraded or otherwise processed, including biomass, paper mill sludge, and animal hides. Enzymatic degradation can be enhanced by including one or more polymeric surfactants.

Method and composition for enzymatic treatment of fiber for papermaking, and paper products made therewith

Enzyme-treated papermaking sludges are provided, as are methods of making the enzyme-treated sludge. Papermaking processes that incorporate the enzyme-treated papermaking sludges into papermaking pulp are also provided as are paper and paperboard products made from the resultant pulp.

Papermaking process using enzyme-treated sludge, and products

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Cordova, TN, United States of America

Philip M Hoekstra