복사용지의 리사이클링 반복처리에 따른 재생지의 특성 및 고지의 탈묵성 변화

Changes of Recycled Paper Properties and Waste Paper Deinkability by the Repeated Recycling of Photocopy Paper

인쇄하지 않은 복사용지에 대해 침지, 탈수, 건조등 일련의 리사이클링 사이클의 반복횟수에 따라 얻어지는 재생지의 광학적 성질의 변화와, 리사이클링 횟수를 달리한 펄프를 이용하여 고지를 제조한 후 하여 고지의 탈묵성 변화를 살펴보았다. 그 결과, 리사이클링 횟수 증가에 따라 얻어진 재생지의 백색도는 원래보다 약10% 저하되었으나, 섬유간 결합감소에 따른 비산란계수의 증가로 불투명도는 약10%정도 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 또한, 리사이클링 횟수에 따른 고지의 탈묵성은 섬유의 표면 자유에너지 감소, 즉 섬유의 소수화 증가로 인하여 약간 저하되는 것으로 나타났다.

This study examined the effects of recycling on chemical pulp fibers from multiple recycles. Firstly, water-pretreated alkaline photocopy paper was disintegrated by TAPPI standard disintegrator at room temperature. After dewatering, this pulp was dried in oven at $80^{\circ}C$ for 24hrs. A sequence of wetting, disintegrating and drying was one recycling cycle and this cyclic treatment was repeated from zero to five times. The recycled handsheet dropped to 90% of the original brightness after five cycles, and lost the most brightness in the first two cycles. However, it had a gain of 10% in opacity after five cycles. And, in this study, the method for determining residual ink(toner) content in recycled handsheets were estabilished by means of SEM-EDX and atomic absorptive photometer. The change of residual ink percentage on recycled paper showed the effect of recycling numbers on deinkability of waste paper. A slight decrease in deinkability was noted for the recycled handsheets, which may be due to the change of fiber surface free energy connected with fiber swelling.