ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The author wishes to thank all of the people
and companies who contributed information,
photographs, and other help. Special thanks to the
Pope and Talbot mill in Halsey, Oregon, the
James River mill in Halsey, Oregon, the James
River mill in Camas, Washington, and the Boise
Cascade Corporate Research Center in Portland,
Oregon for providing valuable help. The sketches
by the late John Ainsworth were used with gener-
ous permission of the Thilmany Paper Division of
International Paper Co.
Stephen Temple of Black Clawson was
instrumental in providing information and figures
of his company's equipment, as were Bonny
Rinker of Andritz Sprout-Bauer, Inc.; Barbara
Crave and Elaine Cowlin of Beloit Corp.; Henry
Chen of James River Corp. in regards to Crown
Zellerbach Corp. material; Robert Gill of Pfizer,
Inc.; Manuel Delgado of Straw Pulping Technolo-
gy; R. H. Collins of Kamyr, Inc.; Jody Estabrook
of Fiberprep; Maria Krofta of Krofta Eng. Corp.;
Steven Khail of Manitowoc Eng. Co.; Garth
Russell of Sunds Defibrator; and many others who
provided information for this book.
Alfred Soeldner took many of the excellent
scanning electron micrographs that are shown in
this volume. An extensive resource of notes in the
OSU pulp and paper files was used in this work;
contributions to these files were made by Walter
Bublitz, James Frederick, Jr., Philip Humphrey,
and others, although it was not always clear who
supplied any given information. Alton Campbell,
of the University of Idaho, contributed a copy of
his class lecture notes, which were helpful to this
work. Michael Haas, of Longview Fibre, contrib-
uted a set of the books prepared for the Pulp and
Paper Manufacturing Technology Program offered
through Lower Columbia College. Andre Caron,
of the National Council of Air and Stream Im-
provement, supplied information concerning
environmental regulations and control. Myoung-
ku Lee prepared the index and assisted with many
aspects of this work. Troy Townsend and Jinfeng
Zhuang reviewed much of the manuscript.
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Victor Hansen reviewed the paper machine
wet end section and contributed much information
on water removal on flat wire machines.
Special acknowledgment is made to the late
Kyosti Sarkanen who inspired me to start this
project, sent copies of his class lecture notes to
me, and was to have collaborated on this work.
The editorial and production staff at Academic
Press contributed substantially to this work. One
could not ask for a more reasonable publisher.
Additional recognition is given to Jerry Hull,
my right-hand man who runs my laboratory when
I am not to be found for days at a time, for nu-
merous suggestions of research activities and com-
ments on this work, and editorial help on the
manuscript. I would especially like to thank my
wife, Lora Jasman, M.D., for numerous sugges-
tions and editorial help.
Many other people have been involved in the
review process, but must remain publicly un-
thanked as they remain unknown to me.
This book was typeset from WordPerfect®
5.1. Many of the drawings were done with
Generic CADD'^'^ 5.0. Many of the chemical
structures were drawn with Wimp''^'^2001. Many
graphs were drawn with Quattro®Pro 3.0. The
original copy was printed on a Hewlett Packard
LaserJet 4 with CG Times font.
A conscientious effort has been made to
include trademarks when cited in the text. Any
omission is unintentional, and I welcome notifica-
tion of any oversights.
The inclusion of color plates has been made
possible by the generous support of the following
companies and organizations:
The Black Clawson Company
Contributors to Oregon State Univ.
Pacific Section Tappi
Rhone Poulenc
Specialty Chemicals
Basic Chemicals
Willamette Industries, Incorporated