Wood, Pulp & Paper

When working with wood, various fiber sources and their resulting products, you’re dealing with materials of a complex nature. Econotech has the expertise, equipment, and established procedures to explore the composition of the complex materials in your current or proposed project and give you results you can depend on.

We can analyze cellulose, its extractives, lignin, and other related materials that are part of your process. Econotech follows standard methods from TAPPI, PAPTAC, SCAN, ASTM, and others to generate results.

A

Acid insoluble ash (free carbon)

Acidity or alkalinity, pulp

Alpha, Beta, Gamma cellulose

Anthraquinone

Ash @ 525°C, @ 725°C, @ 1000°C

Ash fusion temperature – oxidizing or reducing atmosphere

C

Carboxyl and aldehyde functional group content

Carbohydrates (wood sugars: arabinan, galactan, glucan, mannan, xylan)

Caustic solubility, (1%, 10%, 18%, 21.5%)

Chemical Oxygen Demand, COD

Chloride

Chloride, water soluble

Chloriting (delignification)

Chromium, hexavalent

Conductivity

Consistency, pulp suspensions

Copper number

E

Extractives (DCM, acetone, hexane, ether)

F

FDA Extractives (alcohol, chloroform, heptane)

Formaldehyde

H

Hemicellulose (S18)

Hexaneuronic acid

K

Kappa number

Klason lignin

M

Metals / Cations

Methanol

Moisture (oven dry method)

O

Organo-Silicone

P

Pentosans (5-carbon sugar polysaccharides)

Permanganate number (K number)

pH (hot or cold)

Pitch, detrimental in pulp

Potential tall oil in wood

Potential turpentine in wood

S

Silica

Sodium (total, washable and bound sodium)

Soluble Lignin

Surface pH

Starch

Sulfate, water soluble

Sulfite, water soluble

Sulfur, Parr oxygen bomb

Sulfur, reducible (TRS)

Sulfur, total and bound

T

Talc / Magnesium Silicate

V

Viscosity (0.5% CED, 1% ball fall, LOIV, Intrinsic)