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KCL Piloting and testing services
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Technology Areas & scope
Pulping
Number of units3 units
Capacity1 - 1000 kg
Summary of Mechanical pulping
KCL’s unique refining service allows you to test refining both in laboratory and pilot scales. You can promote reusability of fiber material, for example refine reject material, test recirculation or adjust fiber length. You can test new raw materials and produce material in demo scale, fibrillate with specified certain energy, homogenize or mix chemicals to the pulp. Amounts of dry material refined in lab scale are 1-2 kg and in pilot scale min 200 kg.
LC refining
- Pilot scale: Metso Optifiner RF-01
- Conical refiner with SW, HW, Eucalyptus filling options
- Feed consistency 3-5 %
- Max load 400 kW
- Laboratory scale: Voith Labrefiner
HC refining
- Pilot scale: Pre-steaming reactor & TMP/CTMP/BCTMP possibility
Typical testing and analyses in lab
- Fiber analytics, Kajaani FS5
- Freeness (CSF) /Schopper-Riegler (SR)
- Water-retention value (WRV)
- Shives
- Bauer-McNett fiber classification
- Laboratory sheet testing
- Extractives, lignin and other analyses
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Number of units7 units
Capacity450 - 4000 L
Summary of Chemical pulping
Chemical processing services available in pilot scale, for example extraction, washing, purifying, fractionating, bleaching and pulping.
Treatment with HC and LC reactor systems. Materials can be treated at elevated temperatures and under pressure.
Integration of customers’ equipment is possible.
HC reactor systems:
- atmospheric or closed-loop air circulation
- continuous or batch
- max temp about 90 C
- twin-screw reactor type 450 L up to 2200 L
Pressurized reactor systems:
- 4m3, up to 10 bar, max temp 180 C
- 300 L, up to 20 bar, max temp 200 C
Treatment of LC pulp
- pulper 8 m3
- several atmospheric tanks with mixing and heating
Typical testing and anlysing in laboratory:
- Fiber analytics, Kajaani FS5
- Freeness (CSF) /Schopper-Riegler (SR)
- Water-retention value (WRV)
- Shives
- Bauer-McNett fiber classification
- Laboratory sheet testing
- Extractives, lignin and other analyses
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Material technologies
Number of units7 units
Capacity1 - 2100 m²/h
Summary of Fibre web production
Paper making at KCL can be made both in lab and pilot scale.
Laboratory-scale testing platform ideal for testing fillers, fibers or new papermaking raw-materials.
The board and papermaking methods utilize standard sheet molds or a dynamic sheet former. Dynamic sheet former is capable of producing multi-layer paper or board.
Our laboratory has a world-class portfolio of testing equipment and capabilities.
- Paper or board making trials to enhance product development
- Assessment of fillers, fibers and new raw materials in papermaking
- Sheet forming from different fiber fractions
- Multilayer board forming
In pilot scale we have a foam forming paper machine:
- width 700 mm
- foam density 300-500 g/l
- grammage 20-150 g/m2
- machine speed 20-50 m/min
- drying section: IR, cylinder and belt
- online hard nip calendering
Paper, board, packaging testing:
- Strength
- Structure
- Surface
- Barrier (water, water vapour, grease, oxygen,..)
- Recyclability of packaging and material
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NameEva Sandås
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Number of units16 units
Capacity1 - 400 L
Summary of Coating or lamination
Dispersion coating scale-ups: from lab to semi-pilot and full industrial pilot scales
Application technologies:
– Lab scale: draw-down coting, spray, curtain coating
– Semi-pilot: roll, flexo, gravure, reverse gravure, spray
– Full pilot: Film size press, hard nip sizer, roll, jet, spray, curtain coating
Co-extrusion coating and lamination pilot line, 5-layer technology with encapsulation
Wet or dry lamination with gravure, reverse gravure line
Printing in pilot scale:
– Sheet fed offset printing line
– Reel-fed flexo printing line
We can support analyses of coated and printed samples with our comprehensive laboratory services. Tests like recyclability, barrier properties and compostability are possible at our lab.
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NameMikko Mensonen
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Size reduction and homogenisation
Number of units5 units
Capacity1 - 20 t
Summary of Milling
Simulating mill refining in laboratory scale
Our laboratory has a Voith Laboratory refiner with multiple filling options. We provide quality control and benchmarking of pulp, offer refining of various types pulps and testing of trial pulp samples using the Voith Labrefiner. We have a wide range of pulp characterization analysis.
Milling in pilot scale
Hammermill for fluff pulp testing, pre-crushing of biomass to further processing or fractionation to determined sieve size.
Atrex mill for high or low consistency (dry or wet) processing with versatile raw-material base. Atrex mill is a counter-rotating rotor-rotor mill with different filling choices from crushing, milling and dispersing. It can be used in continuous or batch process.
Crushing with crushers from Weima, either rough or fine.
Rough crusher for tearing or ripping of textiles, fine crusher for dusting.
Cutting of materials, typically cellulose or textiles is possible with our knifemill from Pallmann.
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Number of units7 units
Capacity10 t
Summary of Densification
KCL has several separation possibilities for liquid/solid and solid/solid:
- pilot scale decanter centrifuge
- lab scale centrifuge
- cyclone, several volume options
- single-screw and twin-screw presses
- belt press
- wire press
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Thermal and pressure techniques
Number of units4 units
Capacity20000 L
Summary of Hydrothermal treatment
We have two reactor systems to be used for hydrothermal processes
- reactors with pressure, up to 4.000 L volume
- reactors without pressure, up to 20.000 L volume
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Separation technologies
Number of units10 units
Capacity1 - 4000 L
Summary of Extraction
Extraction capabilities with different type of reactors:
- twin-screw reactor types, three different sizes from 450 L to 2200 L
- pressurized reactor types, two different sizes from 300 L to 4 000 L
- atmospheric tanks from 1L to 20.000 L
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Number of units5 units
Capacity10 t
Summary of Mechanical separation
KCL has several separation possibilities for liquid/liquid, liquid/solid and solid/solid:
- pilot scale decanter centrifuge
- lab scale centrifuge
- cyclone, several volume options
- membrane filtration possibilities to separate liquids
- single-screw and twin-screw presses
- belt press
- wire press
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Number of units8 units
Capacity10 t
Summary of Physicochemical separation
Drying possibilities with mild and aggressive conditions, with pressure and heat.
Drying depends on material.
Dryer with heat, “box dryer” and air-flow, volume of 4 m3
Dryer with pressure, wirepress, Thune Single-screw press, Stord twinscrew press
Drying possibilities with oven, twin-screw, fluidisized bed and paper machine
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Fermentation and digestion
Number of units5 units
Capacity200 - 4000 L
Summary of Anaerobic digestion
Anaerobic digestion can be made in our air tight tanks, where mixing and temperature control are possible, up to 100 degrees.
Different sizes of tanks: 200 L, 500 L 800 L, 1.000 L, 4000 L
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Number of units5 units
Capacity200 - 4000 L
Summary of Biomass and precision fermentation
Fermentation can be made in our air tight tanks, where mixing and temperature control are possible, up to 100 degrees.
Different sizes of tanks: 200 L, 500 L 800 L, 1.000 L, 4000 L
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Enzymatic catalysis
Number of units5 units
Capacity200 - 4000 L
Summary of Enzymatic hydrolysis and enzyme immobilization
Enzymatic hydrolysis and enzyme immobilization can be made in our air tight tanks, where mixing and temperature control are possible, up to 100 degrees.
Different sizes of tanks: 200 L, 500 L 800 L, 1.000 L, 4000 L
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Chemical conversions
Number of units6 units
Capacity1 - 20000 L
Summary of Acid and alkaline hydrolysis
Continuous or batch production.
Continuous reactors are without pressure.
Continuous reactors: 10L and 450 L and 2200 L
Batch production is possible with or without pressure, several reactors available, volumes 1 – 20.000 L
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Number of units5 units
Capacity200 - 4000 L
Summary of Heterogeneous catalysis
Heterogeneous catalysis can be made in our air tight tanks, where mixing and temperature control are possible, up to 100 degrees.
Different sizes of tanks: 200 L, 500 L 800 L, 1.000 L, 4000 L
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NameRisto Hertzberg
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Address
Hepolammentie 25, Pilot plant, 08680, Lohja, Uusimaa, Finland
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