Kraft pulping of jack pine killed by the Swaine sawfly

1979 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-153
Author(s):  
K. Hunt ◽  
P. Benoit

Kraft pulping studies were done on jack pine (Pinusbanksiana Lamb.) defoliated by Swaine jack pine sawfly (Neodiprionswainei Midd.). Trees dead as long as 7 years, dead and living trees sprayed with Lindane insecticide, and dead trees wrapped in cotton to prevent secondary insect attacks were tested. There was a statistically significant decrease in unscreened pulp yield (adjusted to screened pulp permanganate No. 20) with length of time since death, e.g., 44.6% (1 year) to 43.4% (7 years); but sufficient variation exists between the trees in any category such that, from a practical viewpoint, all trees tested could be used for pulp manufacture. There were no apparent differences in pulp yield between treated and untreated trees dead for the same length of time. Pulp strength decreased approximately linearly with length of time since death. A decrease in the chip thickness range of −6 mm to +2 mm (total laboratory accepts) and an increase in the −2 mm (pan) thickness range with length of time since death were observed.

2013 ◽  
Vol 750-752 ◽  
pp. 1520-1523
Author(s):  
Hong Xia Gao ◽  
Wen Hua He ◽  
Xiu Qiong Guan ◽  
Chun Liu ◽  
Bo Yuan

The effect of chelating agents Diethylene Triamine Penta Methylene Phosphonic Acid in bamboo kraft cooking was studied. The results show that the bamboo pulp yield was 49.52% when DTPMPA dosage is 0.4%, at the same time the Kappa number was lower. With the increasing of DTPMPA dosage in bamboo kraft pulping, the bamboo pulp strength was increased.


2012 ◽  
Vol 36 (6) ◽  
pp. 1163-1172 ◽  
Author(s):  
María Graciela Aguayo ◽  
Regis Teixeira Mendonça ◽  
Paulina Martínez ◽  
Jaime Rodríguez ◽  
Miguel Pereira

Tension (TW) and opposite wood (OW) of Eucalyptus globulus trees were analyzed for its chemical characteristics and Kraft pulp production. Lignin content was 16% lower and contained 32% more syringyl units in TW than in OW. The increase in syringyl units favoured the formation of β-O-4 bonds that was also higher in TW than in OW (84% vs. 64%, respectively). The effect of these wood features was evaluated in the production of Kraft pulps from both types of wood. At kappa number 16, Kraft pulps obtained from TW demanded less active alkali in delignification and presented slightly higher or similar pulp yield than pulps made with OW. Fiber length, coarseness and intrinsic viscosity were also higher in tension than in opposite pulps. When pulps where refined to 30°SR, TW pulps needed 18% more revolutions in the PFI mill to achieve the same beating degree than OW pulps. Strength properties (tensile, tear and burst indexes) were slightly higher or similar in tension as compared with opposite wood pulps. After an OD0(EO)D1 bleaching sequence, both pulps achieved up to 89% ISO brightness. Bleached pulps from TW presented higher viscosity and low amount of hexenuronic acids than pulps from OW. Results showed that TW presented high xylans and low lignin content that caused a decrease in alkali consumption, increase pulp strength properties and similar bleaching performance as compared with pulps from OW.


1983 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 246-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Werner ◽  
Erwin E. Elert ◽  
Edward H. Holsten

A kraft pulping study on standing white spruce (Piceaglauca (Moench) Voss) killed by spruce beetles (Dendroetonusrufipennis (Kirby)) in south central Alaska showed no difference in pulp yield between trees dead for 1 year and those dead for as long as 50 years. Strength properties of beetle-killed white spruce remained extremely high in all dead trees regardless of how long they had been dead, so they apparently could be used for producing high-quality kraft pulps. These are the first results reported in which standing trees dead for as long as 50 years produced high-quality bleached and unbleached pulps.


TAPPI Journal ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 9-16
Author(s):  
SUNG-HOON YOON ◽  
HARRY CULLINAN ◽  
GOPAL A. KRISHNAGOPALAN

We studied three process modifications to investigate their effects on the property and yield recovery capabilities of kraft pulping integrated with hemicellulose pre-extraction of southern pine. Loblolly pine chips were pre-extracted with hot water until the sugar extraction yield reached the targeted value of 10% and then subjected to conventional and modified kraft pulping. Modification included polysulfide pretreatment; polysulfide-sodium borohydride dual pretreatment, and polysulfide followed by polysulfide-sodium borohydride dual pretreatment two-stage pretreatments prior to kraft pulping. In the first modification, about 5% of the lost pulp yield (total 7%) caused by hemicellulose pre-extraction could be recovered with 15%-20% polysulfide pretreatment. Complete recovery (7%) was achieved with simultaneous pretreatment using 15% polysulfide and 0.5% sodium borohydride with 0.1% anthraquinone in polysulfide-sodium borohydride dual pretreatment. Two-stage pretreatment using recycled 15% polysulfide followed by simultaneous treatment of 6% polysulfide and 0.4%–0.5% sodium borohydride with 0.1% anthraquinone also achieved 100% yield recovery. Continuous recycling of 15% polysulfide employed in the two-stage process modification maintained its yield protection efficiency in a repeated recycling cycle. No significant changes in paper strength were found in handsheets prepared from the three process modifications, except for a minor reduction in tear strength.


TAPPI Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 18 (5) ◽  
pp. 287-293 ◽  
Author(s):  
JANNATUN NAYEEM ◽  
M. SARWAR JAHAN ◽  
RAZIA SULTANA POPY ◽  
M. NASHIR UDDIN ◽  
M.A. QUAIYYUM

Jute cutting, jute caddis, and cutting-caddis mixtures were prehydrolyzed by varying time and temperature to get about 90% prehydrolyzed yield. At the conditions of 170°C for 60 min of prehydrolysis, the yield for 100% jute cutting was 76.3%, while the same for jute caddis was only 67.9%. But with prehydrolysis at 150°C for 60 min, the yield was 90% for jute cutting, where 49.94% of original pentosan was dissolved and prehydrolysis of jute caddis at 140°C in 60 min yielded 86.4% solid residue. Jute cutting-caddis mixed prehydrolysis was done at 140°C for 30 min and yielded 92% solid residue for 50:50 cutting-caddis mixtures, where pentosan dissolution was only 29%. Prehydrolyzed jute cutting, jute caddis, and cutting-caddis mixtures were subsequently kraft cooked. Pulp yield was only 40.9% for 100% jute cutting prehydrolyzed at 170°C for 60 min, which was 10.9% lower than the prehydrolysis at 140°C. For jute cutting-caddis mixed prehydrolysis at 140°C for 45 min followed by kraft cooking, pulp yield decreased by 3.3% from the 100% cutting to 50% caddis in the mixture, but 75% caddis in the mixture decreased pulp yield by 6.7%. The kappa number 50:50 cutting-caddis mixture was only 11.3. Pulp bleachability improved with increasing jute cutting proportion in the cutting-caddis mixture pulp.


1958 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. W. Ghent

The heads of feeding larvae of the jack pine sawfly are consistently oriented towards the needle tips. This orientation is not obtained from the apically-directed needle teeth, and is found to be independent of gravity and of the flexibility of the foliage. Though light can act to disrupt the orientation, larvae adopt the orientation in darkness so that light cannot be postulated as an essential directive stimulus. The behavior is identified as a "free-end" response, and possible underlying mechanisms are discussed.


BioResources ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 9243-9264
Author(s):  
Luis Fernando Pintor-Ibarra ◽  
José de Jesús Rivera-Prado ◽  
Sarai Ramos-Vargas ◽  
Teófilo Escoto-García ◽  
Nancy Eloisa Rodríguez-Olalde ◽  
...  

Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) was pulped by means of a kraft pulping process with reagent loads of 10 and 20% on a dry matter basis to determine yield, rejects, kappa number, and ash. Fiber classification, brightness, opacity, and viscosity were measured in the brown pulp. Bleaching was performed by means of an O1O2D1(PO)D2HD3 sequence. Yield, kappa number, pH, ash, brightness, opacity, and viscosity were evaluated in the bleached pulp. Finally, a microanalysis of inorganic elements was carried out in both the bleached and unbleached pulp ash. The highest kraft pulp yield was 26.4%, with a 10% reagent load at 120 °C and 30 minutes cooking. It was determined that E. crassipes cellulosic pulp contains large amounts of fines. Results of the bleaching sequence indicate low brightness (58.0 %) and low viscosity (6.43 cP). The most abundant inorganic elements in the ash of both bleached and unbleached pulp were Ca, Mg, P, and Si. These results suggest that E. crassipes biomass might complement cellulosic fibers in pulping processes of low yield, such as the wood fibers used to produce handmade paper.


1953 ◽  
Vol 46 (4) ◽  
pp. 703-703 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel M. Benjamin ◽  
Norbert B. Underwood
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1963 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-235 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. C. O'Neil

An investigation of the radial growth of jack pine (Pinus banksiana Lamb.) defoliated by the Swaine jack-pine sawfly (Neodiprion swainei Midd.) disclosed that growth rings were discontinuous and missing in cross-sectional disks from severely damaged trees. In young and open-grown trees with dead tops, the incidence of such deficiencies in radial growth was especially high in disks from upper regions of the stems, in the vicinity of the dead tops; radial growth was suspended for 1 year and subsequently resumed in disks from the lower regions of some stems. Cambial inactivity was more generalized in trees from an old and dense stand and it was detected in disks representing major portions of some of the stems sampled; the death of some trees followed 2 to 6 years of cambial inactivity in disks cut at various heights along their entire stems. Growth deficiencies in the young stand were clearly effects of severe sawfly defoliation. Data from the old, dense stand indicated that sawfly defoliation had perhaps merely hastened the gradual deterioration of the stand in which intertree competition was intense.


Holzforschung ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 56 (5) ◽  
pp. 507-512 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Shatalov ◽  
H. Pereira

Summary The effect of solvent on yield and properties of ethanol-alkali pulps from Arundo donax L. was studied. Selectivity of pulping was significantly improved with increase in solvent proportion in the cooking liquor. A rise in ethanol concentration from 20 to 60% (by vol.) increased pulp yield from 44.0 to 48.9%, while decreasing residual lignin from 5.0 to 3.0%. Ethanol addition had a positive effect on preservation of carbohydrate complex against degradation in alkaline medium. Intrinsic viscosity of cellulose was improved up to 35% and xylan content increased from 8.6 to 12.1% with increase in ethanol concentration from 20 to 60%. The preservation of minor non-cellulosic polysaccharides with solvent addition was also observed. The papermaking properties of ethanol-alkali pulps were best for 20% ethanol content. An increase in solvent charge led to a drop in burst, tear and tensile pulp strength. Solvent addition assisted the conversion of glucuronic to hexenuronic acids, whereas the content of HexA in ethanol-alkali pulps of Arundo donax (about 10 μmol/g) was substantially lower than reported for kraft pulps from wood.


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