There exists a worldwide trend in paper industries to reduce freshwater consumption for environmental and economic reasons (water stress, freshwater savings, and reduction of effluent treatment and disposal costs). In modern paper mills, freshwater consumption can vary between 2 m3 and 20 m3 of water per ton of paper produced, depending on the type of manufactured paper and on the age of the mill. As the mills increase the closure of their water systems, a considerable accumulation of contaminants exists; this is worse in recycling paper mills. Accumulation of contaminants, as shown in Fig. 1, can affect both product quality and efficiency of the papermaking operations. Therefore, an adequate internal purification of the process waters is necessary to reduce the organic and inorganic load of the water before its recirculation.
Accumulation of dissolved COD and TOC in recycling paper mill using newsprint and lightweight coated...
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Blanco, Á., Monte, M.C. (2016). Water Recovery in the Paper Industry, Membranes for. In: Drioli, E., Giorno, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Membranes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44324-8_1793
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