OBJECTIVES:¤
Undertake R&D work on raw material handling & preparation, storage practices and quality improvement
¤ Better understanding of pulping and bleaching processes & quality improvements.
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Development of new environmental friendly pulping and bleaching processes
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Additive Pulping optimizations for various types of cooking aids
¤ Reduction of chemical pulp production cost in terms of yield and bleaching chemicals
¤ Provide technical services to paper industries, government agencies and other organizations in the area of chemical analysis of fibrous raw materials, fiber characterization, fibre furnish analysis of paper and board and analysis of chemicals used in papermaking
¤ Provide consultancy services to paper and allied industries for trouble shooting and product quality development.
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¤ Undertake sponsored R&D work for paper and allied industries and other organizations.
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¤ Provide HRD services to mill personnels for skill development and up-gradation of knowledge in the area of pulping, bleaching, chemical analysis, fibre characterization and furnish analysis etc.
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Quantum Mixer
Hard
Wood Chips
Bagasse
Bamboo
Chips |
SERVICES OFFERED:
» Raw Materials
¤ Chemical Proximate Analysis.
¤ Cleaning
and up-gradation.
» Fibre Morphology
¤ Fiber characterization.
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Fiber Length and Width distribution
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Fiber composition in pulp, paper and board sample
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Mechanical Content in Newsprint Samples
¤ Fiber Coarseness
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¤ Fiber Curl and Fiber Kink.
» Pulping
¤ Optimization of cooking conditions for different
raw materials.
¤ Optimization of cooking chemicals for
different grade of chemicals and high yield pulps.
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Influence of pulping additives in improving pulp yield and pulp quality etc.
» Bleaching
¤ Bleaching of wood / non-wood pulps..
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Optimization of Bleaching chemical doses and bleaching
conditions to achieve the targeted brightness.
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High brightness bleaching of wood / non-wood pulps.
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ECF / TCF bleaching of different pulps.
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Reduction of AOX during bleaching of different pulps.
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Oxidative and reductive bleaching of different pulps.
Bagasse(Moist) Depither
Disk Refiner
Recirculatory Digestor
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» HRD Services
¤ On site and mill site training courses are being organized for mill personnel in the area of raw material handling, raw material up-gradation, chemical analysis, pulping, bleaching, pulp analysis, fiber morphological studies and furnish analysis of pulp, paper and board.
FACILITIES AVAILABLE:
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Series digester consists of six bombs each of 2.5 liters.
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Series digester consists of six bombs each of 2.5 liters with facility
of oxygen pulping / pre-treatment.
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Laboratory “Serla” screen of slot width 0.2, 0.25. 0.3 mm.
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Disc Refiner (Sprout Waldron).
¤ Quantum Mixer
for Oxygen bleaching.
¤ Capillary Viscometer for
CED Viscosity of pulp.
¤ Scanning Electron Microscope S-2300.
¤ Hires Fiber Quality Analyser.
¤ Motorised
Research Microscope BX 61
ACHIEVEMENTS:
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Developed research expertise on ECF & TCF bleaching
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Complete know-how on Modern Pulping & Bleaching Technology, Preservation
of strength properties during pulping, bleaching and storage.
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Prepared monograph of non-wood raw materials.
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Technical know-ho for production of quality pulp from decorticated kenaf bast fibre.
Research
& Development
