BioMatNet Item: BRPR-98-0764 - SALOME: Spectroscopic analysis of liquids through on-line measurement

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BRPR-98-0764
SALOME: Spectroscopic analysis of liquids through on-line measurement

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Contract No:	BRPR-98-0764
Project Type:	CSC (Cost-sharing contracts)
Start Date:	01-10-1998
Duration:	36 months
Total Cost:
EC Contribution:
Scientific Officer:	Frederic Gouarderes

Final Synthesis Report (210 Kb PDF)

Abstract

One of the main industrial objective of SALOME is to eliminate phenolic resins from the fibreboard production process thus creating a clean end-product which will find acceptance in the car components market. This will lead to higher competitiveness and a more e nvironment-friendly end-product. In a similar fashion, SALOME will reduce the alkali charge in both fibreboard and pulp production, leading to savings in chemicals, lower environmental impact and higher competitivity. Also, the recovery of chemicals and energy in the recovery cycles will be improved. The pulp, paper and fibreboards produced with this new process will be environmentally friendly superior quality products based on renewable resources. Due to the high quality of the end-product, SALOME has the potential to substitute more plastic materials by natural wood fibre as well as reduced costs and more uniform paper quality. It will allow easy non-polluting disposal and recycling of the product after usage.

Summarising, SALOME will improve the fibreboard and pulp production by:

reducing resin usage in fibreboard production from 2% to zero;
increasing fibreboard productivity rate by 9%;
eliminating sodium and dolomite from fibreboard production;
reducing alkali charge in pulp production by 1%;
reducing Kappa Number standard deviation by 25%;
increasing average Kappa number by 10 points;
increasing Cooking yield by 1%;
increasing Pulp production capacity by 2 %;
decreasing reduction efficiency standard deviation by 30%;
increasing Green liquor reduction efficiency from 85% to 88%;
reducing the (sulphurous) emissions to the air by 30%.

SALOME will achieve its objectives by:

New affordable multi-sensor on-line measurement systems for full characterisation of patterns and quantification of specific components;
New process control systems in the fibreboard, pulp and recovery cycle lines to act on the information in realtime;
Creation of a new fibreboard production process without any phenolic resins through the use of the natural resin (lignin) content of the wood, and,
in the pulp mill, new processes to optimise product quality (e.g. kappa number, breaking length, reduction efficiency) and the process yield.

Due to the elimination of resins, design of new type of fibreboards for special use in the automotive and food industry. SALOME is an end-user driven project. The impetus behind the development comes from the final end-users of the system: a fibreboard manufacturer, and the paper and pulp producers.

SALOME addresses improved plant automation through the development of intelligent sensors, and the project includes a large automation equipment manufacturer. Apart from the endusers, suppliers and manufacturers, the Consortium also includes a specialised Software Designer and an Institute specialising in Measuring Equipment. The system will work on data made available by the partners and will be validated in the production plants of the three enduser partners. The three end-users will benefit directly, and the automation supplier is extremely well positioned in its market to bring about the exploitation of intelligent sensors in other industrial processes.

SALOME should pay for its investment in just 2 years.

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Coordinator

Helmut ZIMMER / Funder Industrie Gesellschaft m.b.H. AUSTRIA

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