Wood substance is a very complicated porous structure consisting of lignin bound wood fibers. We were initializing and leading a 15 years period of research on these issues and their interdependence s with pulp industry, machinery manufacturers and Helsinki University of Technology.
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Dissolving Pulps in an AC press push the limits of Darcy’s law – what does it mean?
It’s not surprising, then, that for assessing the processability of a certain pulp or a pulp blend in AC pressing, and for comparing various pulps, a “flight simulator”, i.e., a small-scale AC press is necessary.