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From Energy-consuming Mill to Energy-creating Mill
2017 Volume 71 Issue 6 Pages 632-635
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2017 Volume 71 Issue 6 Pages 632-635
COP21 adopted the Paris Agreement in December 2015 that emphasizes the urgent needs to reduce greenhouse gas emission to control the global average temperature to well below 2 °C above pre-industrial levels and pursuing efforts to limit the temperature increase to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels. Japan is committed to reduce by the year 2030 CO2 gas emissions by 26% compared with the level of 2013.
Kraft pulp production mill system is an ideal process since it processes biomass not only to produce pulp stock but at the same time to generate energy, that is more than required for the pulping processes.
The kraft pulp mill is consisting of various fiberline processes, recovery processes and various sub-systems as well as auxiliary equipment.
By upgrading and integrating the mill processes and through optimization, it will be possible to create more green energy and more efficiently from the biomass that contributes to the reduction of greenhouse gases and pulp mill economy.
