Abstract
To study the effect of mechanical treatments on the rheosedimentation behaviour of pulp fiber suspensions, the settling behaviour, gel point, compressive yield stress and hindered settling function of bleached softwood pulp with different beating degrees at low concentrations were investigated. Over the range of test concentrations, it was found that the settling rates for refined softwood pulps were slower than that without mechanical treatments, and the values of gel points increased approximately linearly with freeness; Both the compressive yield stresses and hindered settling functions of all pulp suspensions increased non-linearly with increasing crowding number, and the hindered settling function was found to be dependent on the crowding number through a power law relationship. Moreover, the compressive yield stresses for softwood pulp suspensions with mechanical treatment were higher than that without refining. However, the same tendency for hindered settling functions was observed only for suspension at crowding number more than 16. The rheosedimentation studies on softwood pulp suspensions revealed that fiber morphology has a great influence on the settling and compressive behaviour.
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