EP0449841A1 - Procede pour lisser une bande de papier. - Google Patents

Procede pour lisser une bande de papier.

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EP0449841A1
EP0449841A1 EP89912220A EP89912220A EP0449841A1 EP 0449841 A1 EP0449841 A1 EP 0449841A1 EP 89912220 A EP89912220 A EP 89912220A EP 89912220 A EP89912220 A EP 89912220A EP 0449841 A1 EP0449841 A1 EP 0449841A1
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paper web
press nip
paper
web
cooling
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Harald Hess
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Sulzer Escher Wyss GmbH
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21G—CALENDERS; ACCESSORIES FOR PAPER-MAKING MACHINES
    • D21G1/00—Calenders; Smoothing apparatus
    • D21G1/0073—Accessories for calenders
    • D21G1/0093—Web conditioning devices
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B30—PRESSES
    • B30B—PRESSES IN GENERAL
    • B30B15/00—Details of, or accessories for, presses; Auxiliary measures in connection with pressing
    • B30B15/34—Heating or cooling presses or parts thereof

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  • the invention relates to a method for smoothing a paper or cardboard web, which is described in the preamble of the claim.
  • the optimal surface properties desired for further processing, such as for printing, writing, etc., of the smoothed paper or cardboard can only be achieved at high temperatures of the surfaces of the rollers used in the smoothing unit, or only at high temperatures in the press nip.
  • the above-mentioned elastic back-swelling additionally occurs, the non-plasticized inner layers of the web increasing in thickness compared to the state in the press nip.
  • This is a known short-term effect, which is completed after about 100 ms to 2 min after the web emerges from the press nip.
  • This swelling is different locally. It is particularly pronounced at places of high pressure, such as places with fiber flakes or places with a higher basis weight in the web. This also leads to an increase in roughness in the fiber flake area after smoothing ("macro roughness").
  • the paper web is cooled with the evaporative cooling after leaving the press nip, in particular if the paper web has been heated above 100 ° C. in the press nip;
  • the invention had for its object to find a method for smoothing a paper or cardboard web of the type specified initially, which enables the quality of the smoothed surface achieved in the press nip of the smoothing unit, or the surfaces of the paper web after the exit of the paper web is at least partially maintained from the press nip of the calender. An increase in roughness of the already smoothed surfaces should at least be minimized.
  • the structure achieved in the press nip of the smoothing unit that is to say the quality of the surface, is "frozen” and thus at least partially maintained.
  • a thermodynamically stabilized state below the glass conversion curve is achieved, whereby the forced “freezing” or solidification of the surface layers, in particular by preventing the stronger elastic back-swelling in places of higher basis weight, but also increasing the micro-roughness. This achieves a higher level of smoothness.
  • a repetition of the smoothing process can be omitted, or it can be driven faster or with less line forces. This saves a previously necessary mechanical and energy expenditure. If you drive faster, production increases.
  • Process. 9 to 15 are graphic representations of process examples.
  • Fig. 16 shows a special form of sealing.
  • the paper web 1 to be smoothed is guided into a smoothing unit 2.
  • the heating takes place in such a way that at least one surface of the paper web is heated by contact with a heated surface to a temperature which is above the glass transition point of the material to be smoothed and which is dimensioned such that the average web temperature after the conversion step is below the glass transition temperature , the temperature inside the paper web should advantageously remain below the glass transition point.
  • a desired structure and a desired quality of the surfaces of the paper web 1 are thus achieved in the press nip.
  • the paper web 1 is subjected to a conversion step by means of a cooling device 4 before a period of approximately 20 to 60 ms, wherein at least one smoothed surface of the paper web is cooled to a temperature below the glass transition point of the material.
  • the conversion step is carried out by means of a cooling device 4 which is arranged at the exit of the paper web 1 from the press nip 3. Since in the case, for example FIG. 1, the paper web 1 is smoothed on both sides, the cooling device 4 is designed as a mirror image of the paper web 1. It shows an endless, with the Speed of the paper web 1 at the same speed and in the same direction, good heat-conducting tape 8. Heat sinks 9 are provided on the belt 8. In operation, the paper web 1 is guided between the belts 8, its surfaces being cooled in contact with the cooled surfaces of the belts 8 when a cooling medium is passed into the cooling bodies 9.
  • Shielding walls 10 are advantageously provided on the heatable rollers 5 and or 6 and are intended to prevent radiation and convection of their heat at least in the direction of the cooling device 4.
  • the steam which emerges from the press nip at the exit of the paper web 1 can advantageously be removed or sucked in.
  • a correspondingly intensive suction of this steam can be understood as the first stage of the cooling step with regard to the emerging paper web 1.
  • This first step can also be initiated by means of a suction line 11 provided for this purpose, the arrangement of which is particularly shown in FIG. 3.
  • this first stage can already be achieved by evaporation of the moisture and thus cooling of the paper web 1 in order to rapidly reach a state below the glass transition point and thus to stabilize those reached in the press nip Smoothness quality is sufficient.
  • 8 scrapers 13 are arranged on the belts.
  • the paper or cardboard web 1 can also be converted by direct contact of its surfaces with a cooling gas.
  • 3 nozzles 12 can be arranged at the outlet from the press nip, which are used to blow a cooling gas onto the surfaces of the paper web 1.
  • An example of a suitable cooling device 4 is shown in FIG. 1.
  • This cooling device can also be designed as a mirror image of the paper web 1 and thus act on both of its surfaces. It has a hood 14 and partitions 15 which delimit spaces which are open to the paper web 1.
  • a cooling gas is passed into a space 16 via a feed line 17, through a adjoining room 18 led into a room 19 open to this and discharged from this by means of a discharge line 20.
  • the cooling gas comes into direct contact with the paper web 1, since the spaces 16, 18 and 19 to the paper web 1 are each open.
  • seals 21, for example sealing rollers or immersion strips, for example according to FIG. 15 are provided in order to avoid losses in the cooling gas as far as possible.
  • an inert gas such as nitrogen or carbon dioxide, for cooling.
  • the examples according to FIGS. 3 and 4 are one-sided smoothing, that is to say mainly one of the surfaces of the paper or cardboard web 1.
  • the upper roller 5 is heated, the surface guided on this is smoothed more.
  • a cooling device 4 with a hood 14 is assigned to this surface, just like a suction device 11 for sucking in the steam occurring at the exit of the paper web from the press nip 3.
  • the lower roller 6 is heated.
  • the surface of the paper web 1 smoothed on this roller is fed to a cooled roller 7 for cooling.
  • the steam emerging from the press nip 3 at the exit of the paper web 1 is drawn off by means of a suction device 11, with which a first conversion step takes place.
  • a ventilation device 22 which generates further evaporative cooling, combined with a scraper 13.
  • FIG. 5 shows a smoothing unit 2 with endless belts 23 which can be driven at the same speed and in the same direction to the paper web 1.
  • the use of pressure and the heating in the press nip 3 take place via known pressure elements 24 with pressure pockets open to the band 23, which are acted upon by a heat-carrying medium.
  • the approximately rectangular, space-saving guidance of the belts 23 enables the cooling device 4 to be arranged directly at the outlet of the paper web the press nip 3.
  • a cooling of the paper web 1 in direct contact with a cooling gas can also be accomplished by means of cooling devices 4, which are shown in FIGS. 6 and 7.
  • the jackets of the rollers 7 are perforated.
  • the cooling gas is blown through a distribution box 26 through the surface of the paper or cardboard web that is guided past, and after it has passed through the paper web 1, this gas is sucked off through the perforated jacket of the roller 7 by means of a suction box 25.
  • These boxes 25 and 26 can e.g. According to the example of the cooling device 4 described above with reference to FIG. 2 in the sense of countercurrent or cocurrent cooling and are accordingly connected to a supply or discharge line 17 or 20 for the cooling gas.
  • FIG. 1 According to the example of the cooling device 4 described above with reference to FIG. 2 in the sense of countercurrent or cocurrent cooling and are accordingly connected to a supply or discharge line 17 or 20 for the cooling gas.
  • the cooling gas is blown via a distribution box 27 through the perforation of the roller 7 onto the surface of the paper web 1 that is guided past.
  • the gas is fed to the distribution box 27 through a supply line 17 and is removed from the suction box 28 through a discharge line 20.
  • guiding the gas from outside to inside will be more advantageous, so that the outer box serves as a distributor and the inner box as a suction box.
  • a ventilation device 22 and a scraper 13 for discharging the condensate from the surface of the jacket of the roller 7 are each arranged on the perforated jackets of the rollers 7.
  • a cooling device 4 according to FIG. 8 has a cooling roller 7, the jacket of which is cooled by means of a heat sink 9.
  • the cooling takes place in a circular segment-shaped gap between the jacket of the roller 7 and an endless, equally fast belt 8 which can be driven in the same direction as the jacket of the roller 7 and which partially wraps around the jacket.
  • Pretreatment of the paper web 1 before it enters the press nip 3 of the calender by heating and / or moistening the surfaces of the web.
  • reaching or exceeding the glass transition temperature of the material in the heated press nip 3 is promoted or even made possible.
  • Advantageous techniques for this are, for example, surface moistening with steam, with water nozzles, with a water scraper, with application of a water film over rollers, or preheating via contact with upstream heating rollers, with steam, with tempered water, with IR radiation, microwaves or in a heated one , in particular extended press nip, for example as shown in FIG. 5.
  • the course of the individual measure steps is designated with letters A, B or C, whereby the temperature rise, the cooling and the moisture changes are shown.
  • the starting point in front of the press nip 3, the entry point into the press nip 3, the temperature curve in the press nip 3, the exit point from the press nip 3 and the end condition after cooling and moisture reduction of the paper web 37 are indicated by dashed lines.
  • the heating only takes place in the press nip 3 and the cooling only by the evaporative cooling of the own moisture of the paper web 1 without preheating and without pre-moistening before entering the press nip 3 (measure B).
  • the warming-up takes place only in the press nip 3 without preheating and pre-moistening, but the cooling takes place through the conversion step 4 immediately after the paper web 1 emerges from the press nip 3 (measure C).
  • the heating in the press nip 3 takes place after pre-heating and pre-moistening and the cooling only by the evaporative cooling of the moisture of the paper web 1 (combination of measures A and B).
  • the heating in the press nip 3 takes place after preheating and pre-moistening beforehand and the cooling through the conversion step 4 immediately after the paper web 1 has emerged from the press nip 3 (combination of measures A and C).
  • the heating in the press nip 3 takes place after preheating and pre-moistening • and the cooling takes place partly through evaporative cooling of the moisture of the paper web and through the conversion step 4 immediately after the paper web 1 has emerged from the press nip 3 (combination of measures A, B and C).
  • the example according to FIG. 14 relates to the case in which both the glass transition temperature of cellulose or home cellulose and the glass transition temperature of lignin in the paper web are exceeded when the method according to the invention is carried out.
  • the paper web 1 in the press nip 3 is smoothed at a temperature above the higher glass transition temperature of the lignin. Cooling takes place by using cooling step 4 (combination of measures A and C). Measures B or C or combinations of measures A and B or A, B and C are also conceivable in this case.

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Le lissage s'effectue dans l'écartement de calibrage (3) d'une lisseuse (2) par pression, humidité et chaleur. Afin d'obtenir la qualité de surface désirée, on amène la surface à lisser de la bande de papier ou de carton (1) à un état supérieur à la courbe de température de transition vitreuse du matériau dans l'écartement de calibrage (3). En moins de 20 à 60 ms (millisecondes), la surface de la bande de papier (1) qui sort de l'écartement de calibrage (3) subit une transformation provoquée par un dispositif de refroidissement (4), tout d'abord en combinaison avec un changement d'humidité, et atteint ainsi un état inférieur au point de transition vitreuse du matériau. Le refroidissement peut se faire en mettant la surface à refroidir en contact avec une surface (8) refroidie ou en la mettant en contact direct avec un gaz de refroidissement, de préférence inerte. Grâce à ce procédé, la rugosité de la bande de papier (1) n'augmente que dans une moindre mesure après le lissage, de sorte que la qualité de surface obtenue dans l'écartement de calibrage (3) est en grande partie préservée. Description de dispositifs pour la mise en oeuvre de ce procédé.
EP89912220A 1988-12-22 1989-11-07 Procede pour lisser une bande de papier Expired - Lifetime EP0449841B1 (fr)

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DE (1) DE3922184A1 (fr)
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