PAPTAC Bleaching  Committee

Section 5 - Sub-Committee Meetings

June 18, 2002

 

 

1.    Bleaching Chemicals (Chris Kanters)

 

A) Recently Completed Projects

 

·        Bleach Plant Scaling

·        calcium oxalate, calcium carbonate and barium sulfate

·        presentations/material on committee web site

 

·        MgSO4 addition to O2 delignification and peroxide-reinforced extraction stages

·        presentations/material on committee web site

 

B) Ongoing Projects

 

·        Safe Handling of Bleaching Chemicals (Priority List)

·        Fall 2001 - NaClO3 - Sterling (Jim Hopmans)

·        Spring 2002 - SO2 - Marsulex (Ross Stacey)

·        Fall 2002 - ClO2 Safe Handling (Doug Reid)

·        Spring 2003 - Best Practices for Chemical Unloading. (Gerry Ferweda to organize)

 

·        Safety Incidents

·        Blank sheets are available from Dennis Owen or web site

·        Thank you to individuals who volunteered to discuss their incidents 

·        Request that individuals follow through with an anonymous incident report for web posting.

·        Dennis can assist in cleaning up reports

 

·        High Kappa Pulping + Oxygen Delignification  vs. Pulping Only
(Gord Homer, Tina Larson, Don McCabe, Chris Kanters, Gavin Baxter and Ted Tam)

·        Project team prepared a yield questionnaire to gain industry information on subject

·        Michel Epiney to follow-up with Gord on status of project.  Inform team members

 

C) Current Projects

 

·        Oxidized White Liquor Use in the Bleach Plant

·        Project team (Tom Mullen - project leader, Gavin Baxter, Irene Yaraskavitch)

·        Overview on subject was provided, by Tom, at Spring 2001 meeting

·        Paper was presented at 2002 Annual Meeting. A copy will be available with the minutes

 

D) New Projects

 

·        Successful chemical cost reduction projects in the bleach plant

·        Jim Collins to lead new project team on this  project.

·        Members - Tom Burton, Shane Svendsen, Paul Earl, Rob Jude, Lou Legall, Kent Ramsey, Laurier Morisette

 

·        ECF Best Practices Survey

·        Paul Earl to lead new team in updating the 1999 survey

·        Members - Jim Collins, Doug Reid, Ted Tam, Jean Bouchard

 

E) New Bleaching Chemicals Sub-committee Chair

 

·        Ross Anderson - Kemira

 

2. Internet Sub-committee (Chris Kanters)

 

Members: Jim Collins, Dan Davies, Chris Kanters, Laurier Morissette, Paul Earl,

Dan Robinson

 

A) Current Features

 

·        Date, Location and Agenda for Future Bleaching Committee Meetings

·        Will be posted on our site approx. one month before meeting (assuming availability)

·        Will be available on both public and private portions (i.e., you don’t need password)

 

·        Automatic e-mail capability to anyone on the committee

·        Use “Bleaching Committee Membership List” web page to send email to any other  member

·        Send a message/question to all committee members using  “[email protected]”

·        Must be on our current membership list

·        sender is asked to send a summary of responses to all members on the committee

 

·        Electronic Access to Previous Meeting Minutes

 

·        Minutes will follow this  format on web site

·        Attendance list

·        Subcommittee Meeting Minutes

·        Business Meeting Minutes

·        Technical Session Minutes

·        Mill Problems Session

·        Mill Opportunities Session

·        Attachments

 

·        Membership List -

·        all pertinant information (phone, fax,email) on members will be updated only twice a year following our committee meetings

·        Upcoming Conferences/Courses

·        Safety Incidents Section

·        Hyperlinks to Other Important Web Sites

·        Bleaching Protocol

·        Recognition Page for Donor Suppliers

·        Buy/Sell Previously Owned Equipment Pages

·        Minutes/Presentations will be Word/Powerpoint

·        Past Meeting Locations/Mill Sponsors

 

B) Web Site Addresses

 

·        Public Section
             www.paptac.ca/bleach-g

·        Private Section

            www.paptac.ca/bleach

·        Username - “bleachcom”

·        Password - “byebriteguys”

·        (Note - enter password and click box “Save this password in your password list”)

·        Effective July 1st, 2002

 

C) New Webmaster

 

·        Paul Earl

 

3. Annual Meeting (Mike Scofield replacing Dan Davies)

 

Members: Mike Schofield, Jean Bouchard, Erik Tremblay, Dave Willis, Tom Mullen, Jamie Gates

 

·        Review of  2002 Annual Meeting Notes

 

·        2 sessions of papers - well attended

·        Winner of the H. Rapson Award – D. Flater of Crofton

 

·        2003 Annual Meeting Plans/Preparations to Date

 

·        Concept is 2 sessions - a Round table on O2 and a Paper session on varied topics

·        D. Flater confirmed for Round table - some other mills approached - none confirmed

·        R. Berry confirmed as Round Table moderator

·        Required: 3 more Round Table participants and minimum 3

full papers. Also Paper session chairman and judges

 

·        M.Schofield reviewed 2002 notes and situation to date for 2003

 

·        SubCom to coordinate with M Walters re: O2 session at Fall Bleaching meeting - participants to be asked to go forward to Annual meeting 2003

 

·        Discussion of possible “themes” and participants:

·        O2 Delig survey “revisited” - good idea but not for 2003

·        pulp strength issues

·        review of types of O2 system - “Mini”, 2 stage, O2 bleach etc

·        Environmental considerations

·        NaOH vs OWL issues

·        Comparison of O2 Bleach vs O2 delig

 

·        Howard Rapson award - available only to full papers. Discussion of change in concept - all Canadian Conference presentations to be eligible/considered.  Participation to be ‘focused” on Canadian mills, but US (Europe) not to be excluded if appropriate (ie: US Domtar mills).

 

·        Introductory “overview” to be presented by R. Berry (JB)

·        Theme to be determined by participants’ subjects

·        Participation offers received:

·        J. Gates - update of Mackenzie O2 bleaching

·        T. Collins - copaper with Iogen re: Enzyme at Marathon

·        J. Bouchard - Paprican paper – TBD

 

·        Mills to be contacted for participation (first cut)

 

Smooth Rock Falls - high cons O2

Irving - swing mill and 2 stages

AlPac - swing mill with extensive operating history

Espanola - update and F. Munro participation

Northwood - Mini O2

Gr Prairie - new system installed

Mackenzie - followup to JG offer. O2 bleaching

Skookumchuk - host at Fall Conference

 

4. Environmental Impact (Dave Willis)

 

Agenda

·        Last meeting minutes

–       Survey US/Europe regs and impact

–       Moving  Bed Bioreactor

–       O2D/Environmental Tech Session

•         New Business

–       New priorities and focus

 

Attendees: Jamie Gates, Tim Gilliss, Stephen Young, Mark Healy, Eric Tremblay, Kent Ramsey, Caren Caffrey, Rob Jude, Ross Stacey, Chris Ho, Kari Rae, Guy Normandeau, Daniel Robinson, Ross Anderson, Shane Svendsen, Tom Burton, Neil Aerts, Ralph MacDonald, Tom Mullen, Doug Reid, Michel Epiney, Lou Legall, Ted Tam, Luke Monk, Dave Willis

 

Increase in attendance, and especially the increase in mill representation, was very helpful in ensuring the right activities are being pursued in the subcommittee.

 

 Meeting Minutes

•         Survey of mills on US/Europe regulations and impact on member companies

–       Interest is there but survey is not the best tool.

–       Better option; research and present “Future Environmental Trends and Issues” as a technical session

–       Tim Gilliss, Nackawic, to approach in company resource for presentation at next meeting on what regs/expectations from sales regions.

 

•         Moving Bed Bioreactor – Keep on hand

 

•         O2D/O2B/Environmental impact Tech Session slated for Fall 2002

           

–        Several individuals have done evaluations of O2Delig vs O2 Bleaching

•          Lou Legall – are proposing they move ahead with O2 bleaching, but allow upgrade to convert to O2 delig to get environmental benefits if required

•          Shane Svendsen – also has done evaluation

•          Jamie Gates – optimizing their O2 bleaching system

 

-  Murray Walters, coordinator for the above session, may contact these individuals for contributions for the session.

 

New Priorities – The main theme that emerged as a focus for the subcommittee was the need to understand what emerging trends and issues of an environmental nature may be important to be cognizant of.  It was decided to research this for an upcoming session on “Future Environmental Trends and Issues”.  Action steps will be focused on assembling this session.

 

Project participants - Tim Gilliss, Kent Ramsey , Ross Anderson (Scandinavian trends) Ralph McDonald – environmental committee liaison, Luke Monk (scrubbers, air), Tom Mullen, Dave Willis

 

•         Next Steps

 

–         Kent Ramsey – Environmental background and interest.  Will lead development of tech session. Goal – have draft format/content to review at Fall meeting

–         Ralph M – Will check what PAPTAC Env. Committee is doing related to the topic, and relay back to the subgroup by mid July. Also see if there is data on COD or other survey data available.

–         Luke Monk  -Interested in air scrubber regulatory issues and best practices.  Action item? Discuss with Ray re. include in scrubber survey.  Also look for impacts of other country regulations

–         Ross Anderson – Access Scandinavian trends from Kemira counterparts.  Report back to subgroup

–         Tom Mullen – Sub lethal toxicity. 

–         Ted Tam – survey on COD? Draft email survey to understand where mills are in COD discharge levels

–         Dave Willis – summarize BC AOX report by McCubbin et al.

–         Present to group or subcommittee next meeting. Apparently a 1 page already exists.  Will forward to sub group by mid July

 

 

5. Bleaching Protocol (Irene Yaraskavitch replacing Dan Davies)

 

Attendees:            Irene Yaraskavitch

                        Jean Bouchard

                        Jim Collins

                        Laurier Morissette

                        Don McCabe

 

The revised glossary will be sent to all Committee members for their review and comments.  The final revised version should be ready for the Fall meeting.  Jean Bouchard will take care of revising the French translation after final approval of the English version.  Jean also suggested and agreed to provide a translation of terms at the end of the glossary - English to French in the English version and French to English in the French version.

 

Copies of the revised Glossary should be sent to universities and colleges.  The last time this was done the Committee purchased the Glossary from PAPTAC at a discount price and sent them out.

 

The Glossary should be available to Committee members either free of charge or at a discount price when requested through the Committee.  Would it be possible to post the Glossary in the members’ only section of the Committee website?  Someone needs to check with/inform PAPTAC of this.

 

Regarding the Bleaching Protocol, PAPTAC should insist that our protocol is the only one used at conferences and in journals that they sponsor/co-sponsor.  Someone needs to discuss with/ask Rob Wood to contact other pulp & paper organizations (TAPPI, Appita, KCL, STFI) to establish a global standard protocol for use in conferences and journals.

 

New chair: Ralph Lunn

 

6. Teaching Bleaching (Rae Cunnington)

 

·        Bleaching Course

 

PAPTAC has no plans at present for holding a Bleaching Course in 2002 or 2003.  However, this sub committee believes there is sufficient interest for a course in the fall of 2003.  It is suggested that it be held in a mill town, which could base load attendance.  Prince George and Kamloops were suggested as possible locations.  It was recommended that mills in these locations be canvassed to determine support.

Previous comments regarding course concerns such as commercialization, time management, use of overheads versus Power Point and speaker availability after their presentations still need to be addressed.  R. Cunnington is to follow up.

At the Business Meeting, a poll showed 15 members would send someone to the course.  No-one present was against having a course at this time.

 

·        Frequently Asked Questions

 

A narrow focus is to be adopted to get this project going.  Sub-committee reports will be reviewed and catalogued.  Issues around questions and answers from the e-mail should be handled by the Internet sub-committee.

 

·        Chlorine Dioxide Generator Users Group Meeting

 

Our sub-committee will only be involved if EKA and Sterling participate at the same meeting.  These firms will be canvassed.  Otherwise it will be up to individual vendors to put on their own user group meetings.

 

·        EPIC is sponsoring a two day general pulp and paper course in Toronto in Feb, 2003.  It is not believed that this conflicts with PAPTAC courses.

 

7. Bleaching Equipment (R. Cunnington replacing Murray Walters)

 

·        Chlorine Dioxide Storage Tank Containment, Spill Mitigation and Risk Assessment (Murray Walters)

 

Murray advised that the survey results will be appended to the minutes of this meeting.

 

·        Kappa Analyzers (Stan Heimberger)

 

A questionnaire is nearly ready for issuance to mills.  R. Cunnington has some revision of questions and will contact Stan with comments so that the questionnaire can be issued soon.

 

·        Extraction Stage pH Control (Doug Reid)

 

Doug is to e-mail mills for volunteers to send samples of Eo stage filtrate from different positions in this stage to Eka’s facility in Valleyfield, Québec.  The samples will be forwarded to Marietta where the relationship between temperature and pH will be assessed.

 

·        Bleach Plant Energy Benchmarking (Dave Thireault)

 

Ralph MacDonald is to follow up with Dave regarding progress on this assignment.

 

·        Update Bleach Plant Scrubber (Rae Cunnington)

 

Rae has received the last questionnaire and is modifying it.  The Environmental Sub-Committee will be adding specific questions to the questionnaire.  (Luke Monk and Kent Ramsay are to make this happen).   It is hoped that it will be released to the mills soon.

Kari Rae (Skookumchuck) and Guy Normandeau (Peace River) are to report to this sub-committee at the next meeting in Skookumchuck on recent changes to their scrubber systems.

At the next sub-committee meeting in Skookumchuck, Kent Ramsey will outline what he is proposing to do for documentation of regulatory situations in various jurisdictions.

 

·        There is interest in a new project concerning bleach plant mixers.  Don McCabe is to e-mail committee members regarding what items they want to address at future technical or sub-committee sessions.

 

·        Listing Past Sub-Committee Assignments (Dennis Owen)

 

Dennis has started this assignment.  He is to report at the fall meeting and post results to chair persons.

 

·        Some discussion took place on the use of audio conferencing.  It was decided to broach the Internet Sub-Committee to see if there is any interest in this technology.  It would not be considered as a replacement for Bleaching Committee Meetings.

 

·         With minimal progress made on some assignments, the sub-committee was canvassed to determine if there was sufficient interest in keeping all projects open.  It was agreed to keep all projects open.