FPIRC Focus Course
The Sodium/Sulfur-Balance in a Pulp Mill
FPIRC # 20
In co-operation with: 
Division, Department, and University:
Chemical Engineering,
Karlstad University (KaU), Karlstad
Course description/Content: The course is of overview type and consists of class room lectures, computer simulations, an assignment carried out together with team colleagues, a mill visit and a final written examination.
- Overview, pulp mill, models
- Kraft cooking, washing, oxygen delignification, bleaching
- The recovery boiler and its chemistry
- LignoBoost
- White liquor oxidation
- Chlorine dioxide generation
- Odor destruction, Cross recovery
- Integration with a cellulose textile mill
- Mass balance models, examples
- A model assignment
- Presentation of the assignments
- Visit to a pulp mill
- Visit to a LignoBoost pilot plant
Learning objectives: The student will after the course have a good knowledge about process changes that may affect the sodium/sulfur balance. He/she will also be able to make simulations of how much a process change will influence the sodium/sulfur balance for a given mill. The student will finally have a better general understanding of the existing process chemistry in a pulp mill.
Pre-requisites:
Contributors: Prof. Ulf Germgård, Karlstad University; Senior specialist Maria Björk, Stora Enso; Process consultant Hans Arne, Aprocon; Process consultant Hans Magnusson, consultant; Product mangager Kalle Pelin, Akzo Nobel; M.Sc. Per Tomani, Innventia; Prof. Lars Nilsson, KaU; Librarian manager Irina Persson, KaU; M.Sc. Robin Ivarsson, Nordic Paper.
Literature/Course material: Reprints from journals and dissertations, handouts etc
Contact person/Course co-ordinator: Prof. Ulf Germgård, Karlstad University, phone +46 (0)54-700 17 80, fax +46 (0)54-700 20 40, e-mail: ulf.germgard@kau.se
Type: Lectures, one assignment, and a mill visit
ECTS: 4.5
Examination: Oral presentation of assignment, written assignment report and written examination
Place: Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden
Registration and course fee: Registration no later than Oct 1, 2018
The course is free of charge for PhD-students listed at Swedish universities; other PhD-students are entitled to a reduced course fee. Industrial participants are welcome to take the course as commissioned education; the course fee is then SEK 26.700:- (not incl VAT).
Participation on single days is also possible, if you address that formally to the FPIRC office. In that case, a fee of SEK 8.000:- will be charged.