Objective

This project is directed towards the manufacture of tissue products with enhanced wettability, absorbency, storage duration and human contact friendliness. The innovative feature of the project consists on the attempt to shift from wet chemistry to dry gas phase-chemistry, thus minimising use of chemicals, of water, of energy and produced waste. Lignocellulosic fibres and tissue plies will be surface modified to obtain the required functionalities and properties. Surface modification will be conducted under electrical discharge conditions in nitrogen containing active gas additives. Two types of electrical discharges will be used:

• The well known Dielectric Barrier Discharge and the
• Micro Hollow Glow Discharge.

The later will be developed and used in this area for the first time within this project.

Contacts

Coordinator

• Jacques LANDRY / Air Liquide S.A FRANCE

Participant

• Bernd MARTENS / :Softal Electr. Erik Blumenfeld Gmbh & Co Process Development / GERMANY
• Françoise SOMMER / Biophy Research SA FRANCE
• Folke HJALMERS / Chalmers University of Technology Department of Polymer Technology / SWEDEN
• Werner JUEPTNER / Institut Fuer Angewandte Strahltechnik Gmbh Department of Laser and Plasma Microtechnology / GERMANY
• Ulf CARLSSON / Svenska Cellulosa AB Research Department / SWEDEN
• Dieter SCHLOTT / Universitaet Griefswald Institut Fur Niedertemperatur Plasmaphysik / GERMANY