2014 TAPPI Introduction To Kraft Pulping & Bleaching Course
 
Learn your Kraft better in the TAPPI Introduction to Kraft Pulping and Bleaching Course.
 

This two-day course at the TAPPI Training Facility is designed to:

  • Expand overall understanding of kraft pulp mill operations
  • Broaden awareness of how one part of the process effects other operations
  • Demonstrate the effect of processes on kraft pulp quality
  • Build confidence for effective interaction among process engineers and operators
  • Help you troubleshoot product quality problems
Participants will learn about:
  • Wood and Fiber Raw Materials
  • Preparation of Wood and Chips for Pulping
  • Preparation of White Liquor
  • Pulping Terminology, Pulp Properties and Tests    
  • Batch and Continuous Cooking
  • Kraft Pulping Chemical Reactions
  • Pulping Variables and Effects on Properties
  • Trends in Kraft Pulping and Bleaching
  • Brown Stock Washing
  • Screening and Cleaning
  • Bleaching and Oxygen Delignification
  • The Pulp Mill Biorefinery
  • Pulp Mill Environmental Overview

Who Should Attend?

This course is ideal for anyone new to the kraft pulping process, particularly process engineers and operators.

Learning Outcomes
After successfully completing the course, participants should be able to:

  • Describe and define kraft pulp mill processes, equipment, operating variables, and terminology, in order to increase ability to improve operations and pulp quality.
  • Recognize how one part of the process effects other operations, in order to increase awareness of thinking on a mill wide scale.
  • Interpret how the process variables effect pulp quality, in order to improve pulp quality and troubleshoot variations in quality.
TAPPI will award 1.3 CEUs for completion of this course.


Papermaking Science and Technology E-Book Series - Demonstration

TAPPI is offering attendees of this course privileged access to the newly updated Paper Science & Technology, 2nd Edition E-Book Series.

A demonstration will be conducted by Mike Kocurek during this course blending material into the core curriculum from Volume 6, Part 1 on Chemical Pulping.

This exclusive online preview to all 20 books in the series is offered through August as part of TAPPI's partnership with the Finnish Paper Engineers Association.