PaperCon 2013 Topics Announced--Don't miss the Call for Papers!
Invitation to Present
PaperCon 2013 Presents this year's theme - "Innovation Generation"
Papermaking, Tissue making, and Recycled Paperboard Topics Available
A Call for Papers has been issued for the Papermaking, RPTA (recycled paperboard), Tissue 360o Forum programs at PaperCon 2013. The deadline for abstracts for techical papers and posters is Nov. 20, 2012.
Paper company personnel, suppliers, students, and academics are strongly encouraged to submit abstracts. TAPPI is interested in providing a forum for new concepts and new speakers.
Your abstract can be submitted here.
Paper Machine Performance Evaluations and Techniques:
- Stock preparation
- Refining
- Pumps
- Stock approach
- Chemistry
- Water systems
- Vacuum systems
- Pressing
- Paper machine clothing
- Drying
- Winders
- Machine room ventilation
- Paper machine energy
- Full-machine audits.
Papermaking Fundamentals:
- Headbox and mixing fluid mechanics
- Variability, vortices and streaks, foam forming
- Fluid mechanics of forming and press fabrics
- Roll press nips, shoe press nips, felt vs. nip dewatering
- Fundamental aspect of drying paper and board
- Retention in white papers, containerboard, and recycled applications
- Managing deposits related to barium sulfate, alum based, micro-bio and high vs. low shear deposits
- Refining of unbleached softwoods, hardwoods and recycled fibers.
Product/Process Optimization:
- Deposit control and paper machine efficiency
- Increased filler loadings in paper and paperboard
- Dematerialization (tech advances that allow basis weight reduction)
- Trial planning
- Analysis
- Nanocellulose suspensions and microfluids.
RPTA (recycled paperboard) Program Topics:
- Recovered paper quality and supply
- OCC availability
- Recycled fiber sources- what are they really?
- Cylinder boar technology
- Best practices
- New technology
- Reliability systems
- Wet end chemistry in recycled paperboard mills - monitoring and technology.
Tissue360o Forum Topics
- Raw material usage and supply (fiber, water, energy)
- Tissue making chemistry (wet-end, dry-end, and converting)
- Tissue manufacturing technologies (especially TAD and hybrid TAD)
- Tissue forming, pressing, and clothing
- Runnability issues
- Operational tips
- Converting efficiency
- Yankee reliability.
Speakers will be notified by early December if their abstract is accepted. PaperCon 2013 will be held April 27- May 1 at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Ga., USA
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Read the full Call for Papers.
TAPPI
http://www.tappi.org/