A convective hood for transverse installation in a system for continuous heat treatment of moving strip material comprises blowing nozzles for blowing hot gas against the moving strip in an arrangement transverse to the direction of movement of the strip material; and a first transverse suction zone for the suction of hot gas. The first transverse suction zone comprises a first transverse section and a second transverse section. The first transverse section and the second transverse section are provided at the same side downstream or upstream of the movement of the strip material from the blowing nozzles when the convective hood is installed in a system for continuous heat treatment of moving strip material. The second transverse section is provided along the line for movement of the continuous strip material between the first transverse section and the blowing nozzles. The first transverse section comprises suction openings for suction of hot gas directly from outside the convective hood into the convective hood; the suction openings being in closed gas flow connection to a first manifold for recirculation of at least part of this hot gas to the blowing nozzles for blowing the hot gas onto the continuous strip material. The second transverse section comprises suction openings for suction of hot gas directly from outside the convective hood into the convective hood; the suction openings being in closed gas flow connection to a second manifold for exhausting 100% of this hot gas outside of the convective hood.

A method of forming a fibrous web including the steps of providing a fiber slurry, depositing the fiber slurry between an inner forming wire and an outer forming wire, wherein the outer forming wire comprises a structured fabric and the inner forming wire contacts a segment of a forming roll, and rotating the forming roll so that the fiber slurry moves into contact with the structured fabric.

A sheet manufacturing apparatus including an accumulating unit that causes a defibrated product to accumulate in a dry manner and forms a web, a moisture adding unit that adds moisture from a side of one surface of the formed web such that a moisture content of the web is equal to or more than 12 mass % and equal to or less than 40 mass %, and a heating unit that heats the web to which moisture is added. The heating unit has a first portion that comes in contact with the one surface of the web and a second portion that comes in contact with another surface of the web, and the heating unit heats the web in a state of a surface temperature of the first portion being higher than a surface temperature of the second portion.

A method for producing an object, wherein the method comprises drying the object or a primary product thereof, the object or a primary product thereof being at least partially dried in at least one drying device, wherein at least one of the at least one drying units contains at least one infrared radiator which is at least partially heated by means of biogas, a combustion gas selected from the group consisting of oxygen, air or other oxygen-containing gases is added to the biogas before said biogas is supplied to the at least one infrared radiator in order to heat said at least one infrared radiator, and the oxygen content in the waste gas resulting from the at least one infrared radiator being heated by means of the biogas is measured by means of a measuring device and the amount of combustion gas added to the biogas.

The present invention relates to a method of determining the moisture content of a web of cellulose pulp arriving at a pulp dryer. The method comprises measuring, at several instants during a predetermined time interval, the moisture content of said web using a moisture sensor arranged upstream of the pulp dryer; measuring state variables of drying medium of said pulp dryer; calculating, based on said moisture sensor measurements, a total value of moisture introduced into the pulp dryer by a portion of said web during said predetermined time interval; determining, based on said measured state variables, a predicted total value of moisture present inside the pulp dryer; comparing said calculated total value with said predicted total value to obtain a deviation therebetween; calibrating said moisture sensor using said deviation; and measuring the moisture content of a web of cellulose pulp using said calibrated moisture sensor.

[Problem] To provide a contamination preventing agent composition capable of effectively preventing pitch contamination in a dry part. [Solution] The present invention relates to a contamination preventing agent composition for preventing pitch contamination in a dry part D of a papermaking process, the composition containing: a linear polysiloxane compound represented by formula (1); and a cyclic siloxane compound. [In formula (1), a substituent R.sup.1 represents, in the same molecule, a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, a methylphenyl group, a polyether group, a higher fatty acid ester group, an amino-modified group, an epoxy-modified group, a carboxylic group, a phenol group, a mercapto group, a carbinol group, or a methacrylic group, and a repeating number n of a siloxane unit represents an integer of 20-1430.] ##STR00001##

A drying hood for drying a fibrous web, such as a tissue paper web, includes a plurality of nozzle boxes for supplying or discharging air and a housing that at least partially surrounds the nozzle boxes. The nozzle boxes are each individually mounted on the housing by a first bearing and a second bearing. The two bearings allow at least one movement of the nozzle box relative to the housing along a longitudinal axis of the nozzle box and/or at least one movement in a direction transverse thereto, along a transverse axis of the nozzle box. The two bearings have translational degrees of freedom differing by one. A drying arrangement having a drying cylinder and the drying hood is also provided.

The present invention relates to a method for the production of a film comprising microfibrillated cellulose, wherein the method comprises the steps of; providing a suspension comprising between 70 weight-% to 100 weight-% of microfibrillated cellulose based on total dry weight, forming a fibrous web of said suspension, drying the web in a drying equipment wherein the web is at least partly dried at a drying rate above 75 kg(H.sub.2O)/m.sup.2/h by use of hot air whereby a film is formed. The invention also relates to a film produce according to the method and a paper or paperboard substrate comprising said film.

A method of forming a fibrous web including the steps of providing a fiber slurry, depositing the fiber slurry between an inner forming wire and an outer forming wire, wherein the outer forming wire comprises a structured fabric and the inner forming wire contacts a segment of a forming roll, and rotating the forming roll so that the fiber slurry moves into contact with the structured fabric.

A pre-dryer for continuous feed or cut sheet systems is described. Such a module can be used in various applications, for example, prior to printing where the time constant for fusing and glossing is long enough that the substrate temperature essentially equilibrates with that of the marking material on the surface of the sheet. The pre-dryer may be part of an image forming device. Substrates, including paper, typically have high moisture content in normal atmospheric conditions. Such substrates may have a moisture content of about 10% water by weight, which is considered high for printing. Such high moisture content in image receiving substrates leads to various artifacts and extends heating times to take the substrate to its glossing temperature that are about four times longer than for dry media. This longer heating time translates to undesirably longer paper paths or nip lengths.