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Tag Archives: Pulping and Bleaching

Elemental Chlorine Bleaching and the Creation of Dioxin

You see a lot of acronyms onĀ paper products. They show up on printer paper packaging and catalogues and on the boxes your Amazon order arrivesĀ in. Some of these acronyms refer … Continue reading

April 18, 2014 · 13 Comments

Refine and Bleach That Flax

The flax saga continues! We pulled the fiber from the cooler and continued the pulping procedure, combining it with water and running it in the hydropulper, a sort of giant … Continue reading

April 11, 2014 · Leave a comment

Cook that Flax!

This semester I enrolled in an introductory pulping and bleaching course. Historically the lab part of the course walked students through the pulping and bleaching sequence using wood chips. Thanks … Continue reading

March 28, 2014 · 9 Comments