The creping process and the conditions on the Yankee cylinder dryer are key factors in a tissue paper mill, and they therefore need to be kept under good control in order to maintain a high and uniform quality. To this end it would be valuable to be able to make on-line measurements of Yankee coating thickness as well as the crepe structure of the tissue paper. The adhesion of paper to the cylinder affects the creping process and more information about the parameters that affect the adhesion is therefore of interest. To perform trials on a full scale or in a pilot plant is very costly and laboratory creping equipment is therefore sought after in order to be able to measure the adhesion force. The coating layer for use on the cylinder was analysed. It contained a large amount of carbohydrates and could not be considered transparent. The thickness of the coating layer was measured on a laboratory cylinder with a method based on fluorescence. An optical brightener was added to the coating chemicals and the coating layer was subjected to UV-radiation. The intensity of the light emitted by the optical brightener was measured and gave an indication of the thickness of the coating layer. The equipment has to be further investigated before it is possible to implement the new sensor on-line. New creping equipment and an adhesion method were developed for use on a laboratory scale. The equipment can operate with different creping angles and the force needed to crepe the paper can be measured. The highest creping force was obtained for papers of high grammage, low dryness at adhesion, high drainability, high fines content and high hemicellulose content. A more direct method is to analyse the structure of the produced paper. Measurements were made on a tissue paper with an optical fibre sensor while the paper was travelling at low speed. The collected signal was mathematically analysed and the characteristic wavelength was calculated for different paper samples. These values were close to the wavelengths measured with an off line method by a commercial crepe analyser. / Baksidestext The creping process is the heart of tissue paper manufacture. To control the process better, on-line measurements of paper structure and coating thickness are sought after. The creping is highly dependent on the adhesion of the paper to the Yankee dryer. To be able to measure the adhesion, laboratory creping equipment was also required. Different pulp parameters affect the adhesion and some of them have been investigated in this work. The coating on the Yankee cylinder consisted mainly of fiber fragments and could not be considered as transparent, which had to be considered when choosing a method to measure coating thickness. A method based on the light emitted from an optical brightener in the coating when subjected to UV-irradiation was used, but has to be further improved before it can be used on-line. A new laboratory creping method was developed to determine the adhesion between paper and metal, and the force needed to scrape off the paper with a doctor blade was measured. The highest creping force was obtained for papers made of pulp with a high drainability, high fines content and high hemicellulose content. An optical method using reflected light to measure crepe wavelength on-line was developed. The paper travelled under a sensor and the light collected was mathematically analyzed to determine the most common wavelength.

The cost and environmental damage of reclaims is a large problem within thepaper industry. With certain types of paper, so called crepe marks on the paper’ssurface is a common issue, leading to printing defects and consequentlyreclaims. This thesis compares four different image analysis methods for evaluatingcrepe marks and predicting printing results. The methods evaluated consistsof one established methods, two adaptations of established methods andone novel method. All methods were evaluated on the same data, topographicheight images of paper samples from 4 paper rolls of similar type but differingin roughness. The method based on 1D Fourier analysis and the method basedon fully convolutional networks performs best, depending on if speed or detailedcharacteristics is a priority.

Inom mjukpappersindustrin är det viktigt att utvecklas och upprätthålla en så bra kvalité som möjligt på produkterna för att hålla sig kvar på marknaden. Det är därför betydelsefullt att ha kunskap kring tillverkningsprocessens alla steg och hur de påverkar det slutgiltiga resultatet. En viktig del av tillverkningen är kräppningsprocessen som till stor del ger papperet sina egenskaper och kvalité. Det är i detta steg av tillverkningen som strukturen på papperet bestäms. Detta gör att ett stort fokus ligger på att förstå och utveckla kräppningsprocessen.  Denna rapport görs i samarbete med en mjukpapperstillverkare som under den senaste tiden upptäckt en större efterfrågan hos kunder att vara med och styra inställningarna av kräppschabern. Då det råder en bristande kunskap om hur olika faktorer påverkar kräppningen har en osäkerhet uppstått. Syftet med denna rapport är att bidra med den kunskap som krävs kring kräppningsprocessen och klingegenskaperna för att företaget ska ha möjlighet att tillfredsställa kundernas efterfrågan och behov.  I kräppningsprocessen är kräppschabern den viktigaste komponenten att granska då det är denna klinga som utför själva kräppningen. De mest relevanta faktorerna för kräppschaberns inställning väljs ut för att undersökas i denna rapport. Analysen av parametrarna utförs genom att variera en parameter i taget för att sedan kontrollera hur böjningen av kräppschabern ser ut. Med hjälp av utböjningen av klingan kan sedan en kräppvinkel beräknas för att slutligen få fram förhållandet mellan de utvalda parametrarna och kräppvinklen. Detta kommer utföras med hjälp av tre olika metoder vars resultat sedan jämförs med varandra för att fastställa de beräknade förhållandena. De olika metoderna som används är en analytisk beräkning som baseras på den elastiska linjens ekvation samt två undersökningar i FEM-program där klinggeometrin modelleras.   Plottar utformas med värden från de olika undersökningarna som grund. Ett diagram för varje parameter skapas, diagrammen visar hur kräppvinkeln ändras då parametern varierar inom de utvalda intervallen. Alla parametrar som undersökts visade sig påverka kräppvinkeln på en nivå som gör de relevanta för inställningen av kräppschabern då en önskad kvalité är efterfrågad. Efter en jämförelse mellan resultaten från de olika metoderna kunde vissa avvikelser hittas. Dessa avvikelser är dock inte stora och kan därför försummas. Det finns många tänkbara anledningar till avvikelserna som t.ex. olika antaganden och beräkningsmässiga skillnader. Slutsatserna som kan göras av denna rapport är att alla de parametrar som undersöktes har en betydande roll för kräppvinklens minskning och att de olika beräkningssätten gav överensstämmande resultat. I framtida undersökningar kan därför den smidigaste av de undersökta metoderna rekommenderas. / In the tissue industry, it is important to develop and maintain as good a quality as possible on the products in order to stay on the market. It is therefore important to have knowledge of all the steps of the manufacturing process and how they affect the final result. An important part of the production is the creping process, which largely gives the paper its properties and quality. It is in this stage of manufacturing process that the structure of the paper is determined. This means that a great focus is to understand and develop the creping process.   This report is made in collaboration with a tissue manufacturer who recently discovered a greater demand from customers to participate in and control the settings in their projects. Since there is a lack of knowledge of how different factors affect the creping, uncertainty has arisen. The purpose of this report is to contribute with the knowledge required about the creping process in order to reduce uncertainty in the company and satisfy the customers' demand and needs. In the creping process, creping blade is the most important component to examine as it is this blade that performs the creping itself.   The most relevant factors for the creping blades settings are selected to be examined in this report. The analysis of the parameters is performed by varying one parameter at a time and then checking how the bending of the creping blade looks. With the deflection of the blade, a crepe angle can be calculated in order to highlight the relationship between the chosen parameters and the crepe angle. This will be accomplished by using three different methods, the results of which are then compared with each other to determine the calculated conditions. The different methods who are used is an analytical calculation based on the linear elasticity equation and two studies in FEM programs where the blade geometry is modeled.   Plots are designed, displaying values ​​from the different analysis’s as a basis. A chart for each parameter is created, the charts show how the crepe angle changes as the parameter varies within the selected intervals. All parameters examined were found to affect the crepe angle more or less, but all at a level that makes them relevant to the setting of the creping blade as a certain desired quality is required. After a comparison of the results from the different methods, some deviations could be found. However, these deviations are not significant and may therefore be ignored. There are many possible reasons for these deviations such as e.g. various presumptions and computational differences. The conclusions that can be made about this report are that all the parameters that were examined have a significant role in the reduction of the crepe angle and that the results from the various methods gave consistent results. In future investigations, therefore, the most convenient of the methods tested may be recommended.