Determination of foreign materials of plant origin in cotton linters

Autor: Jurbergs, K. A., Dowling, D. J.
Zdroj: Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society; August 1964, Vol. 41 Issue: 8 p545-547, 3p
Abstrakt: The present article describes a test procedure which can be used for determination of foreign materials of plant origin in raw cotton linters. Laboratories that perform the cellulose yield test require very little additional equipment to carry out this test. A portion of the dry cellulose sample, remaining after the completion of the AOCS Official Cellulose Yield Method Bb 3?47 is bleached, formed into a hand sheet and the total projected area of the visible dirts is determined on both sides of the hand sheet. The determination of the dirts is patterned according to principles used in Technical Association of Pulp and Paper Industries Standard Procedures T213 M-43 and T437 M-43. There are three main groups of foreign materials encountered: stalks, cockle burs and cotton seed hulls. The numbers and distribution of these particles vary with the general geographic locality and individual shipments of cotton linters. The test procedure described considers only those dirt particles which survive the major purification steps in the manufacturing of pulp from linters, and are undesirable from the quality point of view of the finished product. Prior to the development of the test only visual grading estimations have been used for this purpose.
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