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Improving sizing performance of middle layer of liquid packaging board containing high-yield pulp

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As the important part of liquid packaging board, the middle layer is generally produced from a mixed pulp furnish by unbleached softwood kraft pulp and high-yield pulp (HYP). However, the addition of HYP would bring unsatisfactory properties (e.g. hydrophilicity) to liquid packaging board. Herein, in this study, the sizing performance of middle layer of liquid packaging board was evaluated by varying the kraft pulp to HYP ratios of middle layer, the dosage of sizing agent and cationic additives etc. It showed that the edge penetration value and Cobb value of middle layer illustrated a better liquid repellence with the addition of sizing agent. The improved sizing performance of the middle layer of liquid packaging board can be ascribed to the excellent performance of the added cationic additive (polyethyleneimine (PEI), alums) for trapping anionic trash via neutralization/flocculation effects. In addition, a binary cationic additive system (Al2(SO4)3-PEI) was proposed to study the improvement on the sizing performance. It was found that a desirable liquid repellence ability can be successfully achieved at a binary additive system containing 1.5% of Al2(SO4)3 and 0.2% of PEI, even when dosage of rosin sizing agent was reduced to 0.5%. The study put forwards a practical approach to improve the sizing performance, especially the liquid repellence ability of liquid packaging board when containing HYP.

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Acknowledgments

The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support from the National Key Research and Development Plan (Grant 2017YFB0307902), the Natural Science Foundation of Tianjin (Grant: 19JCQNJC05400), the State Scholarship Fund for Post-Doctoral Fellow (PDF) from China Scholarship Council (CSC) (Grant: 201908120087), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 31670589), the basic scientific research operation foundation of Tianjin University of Science and Technology (Grant: 000040186), the research fund of Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp & Paper, China (Grant: 201806), the research fund of Zhejiang Jing Xing Paper Joint Stock Co., Ltd (Grant: 21843), and the Opening Project of Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp & Papermaking and Pollution Control, Nanning 530004, P.R. China (Grant: KF201815-4).

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  1. Tianjin Key Laboratory of Pulp and Paper, Tianjin University of Science and Technology, No. 29, 13th Street, TEDA, Tianjin, 300457, People’s Republic of China

    Fangdong Zhang, Lijuan Wang, Xingye An & Hongbin Liu

  2. Guangxi Key Laboratory of Clean Pulp and Papermaking and Pollution Control, College of Light Industry and Food Engineering, Guangxi University, Nanning, 530004, People’s Republic of China

    Shuangxi Nie

  3. Zhejiang Jing Xing Paper Joint Stock Co., Ltd., Pinghu, 314214, Zhejiang Province, People’s Republic of China

    Haibing Cao, Qingliang Xu & Bin Lu

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Zhang, F., Wang, L., An, X. et al. Improving sizing performance of middle layer of liquid packaging board containing high-yield pulp. Cellulose 27, 4707–4719 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10570-020-03081-1

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