Process control and automation
- Introduction to process control and automation
- Development of process automation
- Fibre process automation
- Chemical recovery as a control object
- Advances in paper machine automation
- Paper machine as a dynamical system
- Tasks in paper machine control and management
- Control of stock flow concentration and quality
- Machine direction control
- Cross-directional control – The static optimisation
- Cross-directional control – Dynamics
- Cross-directional control – further aspects
- Controlling functional paper properties
- Managing grade chances in the paper machine
- Managing disturbances caused by broke and recovered solids
- Millwide systems
- Modelling and control methods
Black liquor evaporation control The evaporation plant usually consists of multiple evaporator units connected in series (Figure 1). Only the evaporator with the highest solids concentration uses fresh steam. If the plant includes the high solids concentrator, it uses fresh steam, too. Liquor boils in the evaporator unit and liquor vapour proceeds to the next
Authors & references
Authors:
Professor Emeritus Kauko Leiviskä, University of Oulu
References:
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- Perrier, M., Paris, J. and Meyer-Heye, P. 2006. Steam usage reduction in a black liquor evaporation train. 56th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Sherbrooke, QC, October 15-18, 2006,
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