IMPC’s Scientific and Technical Committee is pleased to announce the conference sessions, selected speakers and chairs. The programme in 2021 replicates the one originally announced for 2020.
| Session | Topic and Speaker | Chair | |
| Bleaching Technologies |
Effect of Hardwoods Lignin Structure on Alkaline Peroxide Bleachability – Oleg Shagaev Improving Hydrogen Peroxide Bleaching of Bamboo Chemo-mechanical Pulp by a Combination Method of Twin Screw Extruder and Aqueous Alcohol Media – Fangmin Liang Posters Strengthening mechanical pulp through 2-way alkaline peroxide treatments – Rodger Beatson |
Thomas Granfeldt | |
| CTMP | Gentle Separation of Spruce Wood Into Fibers – Erik PerssonChemi-mechanical pulps from Agricultural residues – Guigan FangOperating experience with a zero-effluent BCTMP mill at ITC Bhadrachalam – Peter Bräuer |
Antti Luukkonen | |
| HC and LC Refining |
Abrasive refining of spruce and birch CTMP fibres – Birgitta Engberg New centreplate design affects DD refiner performance – Christer Sandberg Identification and Minimization of Fiber Cutting in Multivariable Quality Controllers – Bill Strand Poster |
Karl Murton | |
| Mechanical Pulp Fundamentals |
Fibre separation and fines generation – Lars Johansson Mill Experiences Regarding Heterogeneity of Mechanical Pulps – Olof Ferritsius High bulk tensile mechanical pulp production – James Olson Posters Characterisation of impregnation depth in wood and in individual wood fibres (cells) related manufacturing of advanced wood and fibre materials replacing present fossil based materials – Hafizur Rahman Characterization of screw feeder compression and its effect on wood cellulose accessibility – Miguel Villalba Evaluation of fibre analysers – Rita Ferritsius Low energy methods for mechanical pulping – Jan Nordin |
Christer Sandberg | |
| Mill Optimization |
Optimized utilization of groundwood lines with single layer grinding surfaces for pulp production and electrical grid stabilization – Tomas Björkqvist Mech pulp mills as a tool for Demand Response – Carlo dal Monte Hallsta 2014 – the Energy Transformation Project of Hallsta Paper Mill – Magnus Rydstrand A unoform pulp quality leads to improved operating efficency, but will reducing the short term variations have any signifcant impact? – Ola Johansson |
Zhirun Yuan | |
| New Applications for Mechanical Pulp |
Wet strength papers from CTMP and NSK by combining wet strenght additives and hot-pressing – Anna Svedberg Isolation and purification of high-molecular weight hemicelluloses from radiata pine wood chips prior to thermo-mechanical pulp (TMP) production – Karl Murton Overview of Biorefinery Opportunities for Canadian Forest Industry – Option for Mechanical Pulp Mills? – Zhirun Yuan Production of lignin-containing cellulose nanofibrils (LCNFs) and sugars from bleached softwood chemi-thermomechanical pulp – Ran Bi and Han Posters Wet strength and water absorption in furnish – Rita Ferritsius Ultrasound assisted TEMPO oxidation on Kraft and thermomechanical pulp for nanofibers production – David Myja Lignin containing nanocellulose (LCN) production by deep eutectic solvent pretreatment with high yield – Jungang Jiang Biodegradable CTMP bags is the future – Sven Norgren Repurposing CTMP as a pretreatment “front end” for a potential wood based biorefinery – Adam Wu |
Guigan Fang | |
| Process Modelling and Control |
Feeding of Double Refiners – Rotor design evaluation – Johan Persson Fibre cutting and balance optimization in a twin-flow LC refiner – Matthias Aigner A Modified Scenario-based Stochastic MPC with Applications in Mechanical Pulping Processes – Hui Tian Comparison of refining process and online analyser design alternatives based on achievable control performance – Johan Sund Dynamic modelling of pulp properties – Fredrik Bengtsson Optimization and control of CD refiner – Anders Karlström Poster MP Process Control with Reinforcement Learning based on Economic Nonlinear Model Predictive Control – Ying Xiong |
Jan Hill | |