Staff in the pulp and paper group

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Staff in the pulp and paper group

• Other people
• Prof. Emer. Torbjørn Helle
• Engineer Berit Borthen
• Post Doc. Asuka Yamakawa
• Post Doc. Marco Iotti
• 7 PhD students

• Ass. Prof. Størker Moe
• Pulping
• Bleaching
• Wood chemistry
• Biofuel

• Prof. Øyvind Gregersen
• Paper physics
• Paper technology
• Cellulose material technology

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Main research areas

• Pulp and paper Energy and new materials

Paper Physics
Pulping and fibre quality
Wood based biofuel
Production and use of (nano-) fibrills
Pulping and bleacing chemistry
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Research cooperation

• Tight cooperation with PFI in projects, with PhD
  students and master students.
• Cooperation with STFI-PF and KCL through
  PhD-projects
• Cooperation with Mid Sweden University in
  mechanical pulping research
• Cooperation with industry partners like Norske
  Skog, Södra, Peterson, Borregaard and Vioth
  through research projects, PhD studies and master
  studies.

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Where?

• PFI-building, Høgskoleringen 6B
• Built 1998
• Localized together with PFI
• Much common equipment with PFI, separate teaching
  labs
• Office space in the same areas as PhD students
  and researchers
• Student-PCs

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More than newsprint

• Current Norwegian wood based products
• Specialty cellulose
• Lignosulphonates
• (Bio)-ethanol
• Specialty chemicals
• Energy
• Corrugated board
• Reinforcement cellulose
• Short fibre cellulose
• Tissue
• Greaseproof paper
• Magazine paper
• Book paper
• Newsprint
• Solid board
• Silk paper

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TKP4180 Bioenergy and fibre technology

• Spring 4. year, 7,5 SP
• Processes for industrial utilization of wood
• Contents
• Wood as raw material
• Structure and chemical properties of wood
• Properties of fibre suspensions
• 2. generation biofuel
• Wood composites
• Pulping chemistry
• Pulp and paper technology
• Lab and exercises
• Introduction to specialization in pulping,
  papermaking and bioenergy
• Thought by Størker Moe og Øyvind Gregersen

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TKP4565 Paper and fibre technology

• Autumn, 5. year
• The subject shall give a thorough introduction to
  the production technology and chemistry needed to
  run a pulp, paper or biofuel production plant.
• Possible modules
• Pulping technology and chemistry
• Paper technology and chemistry
• Biofuel

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Project and diploma topics (2009-2010)

• Pulp and paper
• Predicting elastic properties of a polyethylene
  coated multi-layer paperboard
• Energy efficient paper drying
• Biofuel and new materials
• Manufacture and characterization of hydrolyzates
  from bark-containing wood samples
• Yields of fermentable sugars after hydrolysis of
  mixed lignocellulosic raw materials
• Structural characterization of steam-exploded
  wood
• Rheology of nano sized microfibrillar cellulose
  (MFC)
• Porous membranes made of nanofibrillated
  cellulose for renewable energy applications
• New composite materials based on wood and
  polyurethane foam