Effect of Recycling on Fibre Characteristics of Agri-Residue Paper From Chemical Pulp

Abstract

In the present time to meet out the gap between demand and supply of the paper, it has become the prime requirement to recycle the paper prepared from the agri- residue pulp, which is prepared from the fast growing specie available on large scale. The bagasse is the only waste fibrous discharge in huge quantity available from the sugar industries in northern India, which is utilized as a raw material for the production of specialty and other grades of paper in paper industries. So in this Ph.D. programme the efforts have been carried out to recycle the agri-residue based paper and to study the fiber characteristics of paper produced after recycle, to recover the strength loss with the help of blending of long fibered pulp to optimize the strength and other properties of paper with the help of mechanical treatment like beating and refining and the addition of retention aids and other strength improving chemicals for improving the recycling potential of the bagasse based paper for the protection of depletion forests and sustainable ecology in the country.