May 28, 2001

Chairman: Rae Cunnington

Rae Cunnington presented on behalf of Jim Oei.

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How much peroxide is used? Rae will find out.

Is caustic used to bring up pH prior to the pulp machine? D1 end pH is 3.7, i.e. a classic end pH so many do add caustic.

What is the final brightness? 89.

How is peroxide added? Split addition around the reactor, before and after. Added at pump after blow tube.

Dave Flater of Crofton presented.

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Is oxygen split between the 2 stages? No, all the oxygen goes into the first stage and mixing only in the second stage. More work is done by adding caustic to the second stage.

Was the mill able to confirm yield increase? No, there appears to be around 1% increase in yield – certainly there is no yield loss. Norm Liebergott added that purpose was to reduce bleaching costs.

Rae Cunnington presented on behalf of Ralph Lunn.

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There were questions re: specific peroxide charge; pH; chemical applications. Rae has asked Ralph to supply this information.

Is colour an issue in BC mills? No it is mill specific.

Why is viscosity higher with 70/30 split? Suggestion was that Celgar should add magnesium sulfate at bottom of tower then the 100/0% option would be best all round.

Rae Cunnington presented on behalf of Pacifica.

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Who else has conductivity on Eop? No one.

What did mill hope to achieve? Lower caustic use. How much? 4 or 5 kg/tonne less caustic.

Any idea re: mtce. costs? No.

Presentation by Norm Liebergott.

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6.6 Developments with Peracetic Acid and Catalyzed Peroxide

Presentation Ross Anderson.

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6.7 Ozone in the Last Bleach Stages: Bench marking Ozone Lab Systems

Presentation by Gord Homer.

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Were sample pH's adjusted? No, took mill pulp as at came. 3.5 pH. Added ozone.

Power cost? Depends upon whether generate power onsite or not. Chlorate costs/power also going up.

Presentation by Glen Labrash.

Initiating behaviour-based program at Marathon.

What is it? Parallel process to trad. safety. Allows to better track performance. Behaviour Science Technology's BAP process. Address safety concerns without having to worry about accountability, discipline. Just conc. on whether something is safe w/o the other concerns. Used together with traditional methods.

How does it work? Employees do the observations. Observe fellow employees. Data sampling procedure. Go into database. Tracks whether getting better or not and pinpoint specific problems, root cause and workable solution. Benefits: Two employees thinking about safety due to observation method. Audits designed to include feedback – reinforcement and solutions. Ownership due to feedback.

Why should I care?. Answered.

Summary: Sense of control and improves safety.

Chose 4 years ago. Challenge was the changing of company ownership. One observation per employee per month. Close to getting there.

People behave differently when they know they are being watched. Taken into account by program design. Often behaviours are impacted by conditions beyond control, e.g. external conditions. If they do behave differently that good behaviour may be re-inforced anyway.

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Do employees know they are being observed? Yes.

Random, i.e. vary observation time during shift, e.g. day or night? Do spread it out about equally.

Office workers included. Yes. Effective? Yes, found some at risk behaviours that were accepted but known by health & safety workers. Concerns like quality of life, e.g. back, eyes, carpal tunnel. Observable behaviours. Actually more accepted by office workers than trades.

What % have been trained as Observers? 25% Bit more office than union people. Hard time freeing up union people for training.

Mill's intention for number observations, 300 per month observation. Object is to train everyone.

Seen impact to safety results? Think so. Are safest mill currently but other reasons in addition to this program.

Peer on peer? Mostly because more accepted but try to get outside observer to area/job.

Technical, PAPTAC, Bleach Committee Meeting Minutes, May 27-30, 2001.doc