Bleached sulfite, bisulfite and sulfate paper pulps and linter pulp were beaten by Lampen mill or TAPPI standard test beater, and their brightness drops were compared.
Sulfite pulp decreases generally greater than sulfate pulp in brightness as freeness decreases by beating, and the brightness drop increases also with the hemicellulose content in the same kind of pulp (Table 1 and 2, and Fig. 1, 3 A and 4 A). This reason is due to that the pulp, which is rich in hydrophilic hemicellulose and higher in swellability, increases greater in fiber-to-fiber bonded area, namely decreases in non-bonded area, in the dried pulp sheet beaten at the same freeness, and consequently decreases the proportion of the light reflected out of the sheet.
However, the brightness decreases similarly as the water retention value of the wet pulp increases and the specific scattering coefficient of dried pulp sheet decreases by beating, irrespective of the kind of pulp and the hemicellulose content (Fig. 2, 3 B and 4 B)
Same tendency is observed too, when the pressure to wet pulp sheet is changed (Fig. 5).
That the bleached paper grade pulps, especially high yield pulps, are generally inferior to the dissolving pulps in brightness of unbeaten pulp sheet, is mostly attributed to the richer bonded area (poorer non-bonded area) of dried sheet owing to the higher content of hydrophilic hemicellulose (Table 1, 2 and Fig. 6).
It seems that the brightness is affected also with the difference of morphological fiber structure owing, to the wood species.
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