Pilot Scale Pulping & Bleaching of Malaysian Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch: Part 2, 2016 Pulping, Engineering, Environmental, Recycling, Sustainability (PEERS) Conference Proceedings

At the Tappi 2015 PEERS conference, we presented the results for Bench Scale Pulping & Bleaching of Malaysian Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunch (EFB).  In this paper we are presenting the results for pilot scale EFP pulping and bleaching based on our earlier work.  The EFB was chopped, screened and washed prior to cooking in a 2,300 liter spherical digester using the soda process.  Bleaching trials were carried out using a three stage ECF bleaching sequence.  Unbleached and bleached EFB pulps were tested for physical and optical properties.  Comparisons are made between the properties of the bleached EFB pulp and bleached Kraft eucalyptus pulp.  The EFB unbleached and bleached pulps were acceptable for papermaking. 

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