YOUR CHALLENGE:

CURRENT PROCESSES AND METRICS OBSCURE DEEPER BSW ISSUES

Your operators and engineers are so tied up keeping the overall process running that they don’t have time to look for and evaluate hidden BSW issues. If conductivity looks good and foam isn’t an issue, they’re happy to move on to the next items on their list. The problem is, conductivity and foam control paint an incomplete picture of washing performance.

YOUR CHALLENGE:

CURRENT PROCESSES AND METRICS OBSCURE DEEPER BSW ISSUES

DID YOU KNOW?

Mills are becoming increasingly focused on energy recovery. For instance, in modern mechanical pulp facilities, steam is recovered from the refiners and used at the paper machine. This is done extensively in Finland and Sweden, where 25% and 50% of electricity use is recovered, respectively, as steam.¹

SO WHAT?

In the past, things like this would never have been considered. But modern facilities that focus on energy efficiency have the opportunity to either re-use it in their own facilities to save costs or sell it to others as a new revenue stream.

Drainage and exit consistency are more accurate predictors of effective BSW, but few mills understand how to calculate these metrics. So you may not know what your actual capacity is, which could scuttle high-value production opportunities each time you’re evaporator limited or have cleaning machine deposits.

THE SOLUTION:

REDEFINE SUCCESSFUL WASHING EVERYWHERE

If you’re relying on past processes and incomplete markers like foam and conductivity to gauge BSW performance, you’re likely missing hidden problems that could hinder production. To uncover what was previously obscured, you first need to reorient your organization around what constitutes successful washing.

Here’s what you need to do to make it happen:

UNCOVER AND SOLVE ROOT CAUSES OF FOAMING ISSUES

BUT HOW?

Rather than focusing on the commercial aspects of defoamer, you need to follow a more technical, scientific approach—one that empowers you to uncover, target and correct the real bottlenecks in your BSW process, such as evaporator load or machine deposits.

DOSE THE RIGHT WASH AID IN THE RIGHT SPOT—IN ANY REGION

BUT HOW?

You need the flexibility to tailor your wash aid’s formulation to your local wood stock—and complement it with a surfactant system for optimum dispersibility—so you can avoid the need to source regional defoamers from different suppliers.

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1. Finnish Paper Mills Outperform Their EU Peers in Energy Efficiency, Fisher International, October 2020.