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EDITORIAL

To cite this Article (1985) 'EDITORIAL', Drying Technology, 3: 2, 171 172 To link to this Article: DOI: 10.1080/07373938508916264 URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07373938508916264

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EDITORIAL

It is indeed our pleasure to present this special issue of this Journal devoted to Drying of Paper. We are grateful to Dr. Carl Hall for providing us with this opportunity. Drying of paper is an enormously energy-intenslve operation. The cost of drying various paper grades in North America alone can be readily estimated to run into billions of dollars per annum. About one-third of the energy consumed during pulp-to-paper conversion goes into the thermal drying operation. Yet, the time-honored multicylinder dryer remains the workhorse of the industry. Several new concepts have been advanced in recent years. These range from laboratory curiosities to mill-scale operations. The industry is understandably reluctant to make drastic changes to current practice because of the huge capital outlays involved. The latter can also be viewed optimistically to provide incentive for more R h D in this field. We believe that for continued advancement in the papermaking industry and for the development of newer and more economic processes it is very essential to examine new drying concepts for paper. At the same time since steam-can dryers will continue to be the main dryers in industry for some decades to come, we need to examine ways of modernizing those as well. The need of modernizing the steam-can dryers stems mainly from the continuously increasing paper machine speeds and widths which affect the runnability of dryer section. This issue of the journal addresses both issues within the constraints of space available. We hope that a follow-up

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i s s u e w i l l cover several important t o p i c s i n paper drying which c o u l d n o t be i n c l u d e d h e r e i n .

A.S. M.

Mujumdar, C a n a d a

Lampinen, F i n l a n d .

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