Registration Deadline At Hand for the Intro to Kraft Pulping and Bleaching Course

The deadline is close at hand to register for the Intro to Kraft Pulping and Bleaching Course!

This course, to be held August 8-9, 2011 in the TAPPI Training Room (Norcross, GA), is ideal for anyone new to the kraft pulping process, particularly process engineers and operators. In addition to a wide range of knowledge about specific unit operations, process variables and key technologies, the course provides a big picture view of these operations as well. Attendees learn to recognize how one part of the process affects other operations, in order to increase awareness of thinking on a mill wide scale. In addition, the course provides insight that extends awareness of the complex environmental challenges associated with kraft pulp production.

Participants will learn specifically about:

• Wood and Fiber Raw Materials
• Preparation of Wood and Chips for Pulping
• Preparation of White Liquor
• Pulping Terminology, 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

Learn more and register at the Course Webpage

TAPPI
http://www.tappi.org/