Pulp property development Part II: Process non-linearities and their influence on pulp property development
Journal article, 2016

It is shown in this paper that knowledge of the spatially measured temperatures inside the refining zone in TMP refiners is essential in describing non-linear dynamics of high consistency refining. By expanding the pulp and handsheet properties using piece-wise linear functions into the time domain, an auto-regressive model can be applied to verify that the tempera-ture and the consistency profiles, in combination with the motor load and production rate, are key input candidates when modeling changes in different pulp properties. The model accuracy is analyzed using process information captured at different time and operating conditions. It is also shown that it is more complex to estimate and validate the tensile index than the mean fiber length and Somerville shives content, especially close to refiner operating limits where a shift in the process gain may occur. This type of switched dynamics in tensile index estimation at a specific consistency is related to non-linear behaviors where the fiber pad distribution most likely undergoes a local collapse.

model

Fiber distribution

System identification

Refining models

Materials Science

systems

Pulp quality

tmp refining processes

optimization

Fiber network

Author

Anders Karlström

Chalmers, Signals and Systems, Systems and control

J. Hill

R. Ferritsius

O. Ferritsius

Nordic Pulp and Paper Research Journal

0283-2631 (ISSN) 2000-0669 (eISSN)

Vol. 31 2 287-+

Subject Categories

Paper, Pulp and Fiber Technology

DOI

10.3183/npprj-2016-31-02-p287-299

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