Abstract
Around 60% of the paper worldwide is made from recovered paper. Especially adhesive contaminants, so called stickies, reduce paper quality. To remove stickies but at the same time keep as many valuable fibers as possible, multi-stage screening systems with several interconnected pressure screens are used. When planning such systems, suitable screens have to be selected and their interconnection as well as operational parameters have to be defined considering multiple conflicting objectives. In this contribution, we present a Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Program to optimize system layout, component selection and operation to find a suitable trade-off between output quality and yield.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Amand, F.: Optimization of stickies removal in screens and cleaners. In: Recent Advances in Paper Recycling – Stickies, pp. 78–125. Wisconsin (2002)
Currie, J., Wilson, D.I.: OPTI: lowering the barrier between open source optimizers and the industrial MATLAB user. In: Foundations of Computer-Aided Process Operations. Georgia (2012)
Fügenschuh, A., Hayn, C., Michaels, D.: Mixed-integer linear methods for layout-optimization of screening systems in recovered paper production. Optim. Eng. 15(2), 533–573 (2014)
Gleixner, A., et al.: The SCIP Optimization Suite 5.0. Zuse Institute, Berlin (2017)
Löfberg, J.: YALMIP: a toolbox for modeling and optimization in MATLAB. In: Proceedings of the CACSD Conference. IEEE, Piscataway (2004)
Steenberg, B.: Principles of screening system design: Studies in screening theory I. Sven. Papperst. 56(20), 771–778 (1953)
Verband Deutscher Papierfabriken e.V.: Papier 2017. Bonn (2017)
Acknowledgements
The authors thank the German Research Foundation, DFG, for funding this research within the Collaborative Research Center SFB 805 “Control of Uncertainties in Load-Carrying Structures in Mechanical Engineering”.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2019 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
Müller, T.M., Altherr, L.C., Ahola, M., Schabel, S., Pelz, P.F. (2019). Optimizing Pressure Screen Systems in Paper Recycling: Optimal System Layout, Component Selection and Operation. In: Fortz, B., Labbé, M. (eds) Operations Research Proceedings 2018. Operations Research Proceedings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18500-8_44
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18500-8_44
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-030-18499-5
Online ISBN: 978-3-030-18500-8
eBook Packages: Mathematics and StatisticsMathematics and Statistics (R0)