Evaluating the effect of recovery boiler operation of green liquor dregs concentration using multivariate analysis
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Abstract
Poor settling and filterability of green liquor dregs has been a persistent problem in many kraft pulp mills. While the concentration and settling/filtering behaviors of dregs are expected to be related to how black liquor is burned in recovery boilers, the effect of boiler operation is not well understood. A systematic study was conducted to examine how recovery boiler operation may affect the dregs concentration in the raw green liquor (RGL) at three kraft pulp mills using SIMCA, a multivariate data analysis (MVDA) program. Daily average boiler operating data from three kraft mills were analyzed over a 3-year period. Results of both principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares regression (PLS) suggest that the main boiler operations contributing to high dregs concentrations in RGL are low liquor firing load, low bed temperature, poor char burning, and unstable char bed.
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OpenAlex topics: Mineral Processing and Grinding · Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses · Soil Geostatistics and Mapping
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