One of the new PulpEye systems is installed on the second CTMP line and is equipped with modules for online measuring of fibre, shives, brightness and freeness.
The third PulpEye system is installed in one of the board machine’s stock preparation and includes also the CrillEye module for crill measurement making it possible to calculate tear, tensile and burst index as well as Scott Bond and density online. All three PulpEye systems work according to the PulpOnTarget concept, which is based on the calculation module ExtractEye.
In addition, Stora Enso Fors Bruk has bought an RMEye unit which is used to calibrate concentration meters in an efficient way at different measuring points in the process.
“We have been running the PulpEye systems since last autumn and we can see that they meet our high demands,” says Joakim Sundström, project manager Stora Enso Fors Bruk. “We can already see indications how the refiners in our stock preparation influence the pulp. The results from our CrillEye module look very promising. We have a much better control of our pulp quality now, which secures a more even quality of our folding boxboard. “To measure is to know” as automation engineers say and PulpEye has in this respect helped us take a big step forward. A fair part of the investment has come from the Stora Energy Fund and there is no doubt that we will save a lot of energy.”
Stora Enso Fors Bruk is one of the biggest folding boxboard mills in the world. The CTMP pulp is produced in two lines, while the chemical pulp is bought externally.
