Development of a FTIR Spectroscopy for the Determination of Paper Strength

  • Hoang Viet (Australian Pulp and Paper Institute, Monash University) ;
  • Nguyen Kien Loi (Australian Pulp and Paper Institute, Monash University)
  • Published : 2006.06.06

Abstract

Inter-fiber bonding is improved by refining resulting in higher Young's modulus. This effect is consistent to the changes of FTIR absorption intensities associated with the hydroxyl groups in the pulp samples. A PLS model, which is established to correlate the FTIR spectral data with the Young's modulus of the pulp samples for predicting the elastic Young's modulus of paper, is statistically robust.

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