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Stickies: Management And Control
Chakrabarti S.K., Verma P., Tripathi S., Barnie S., Varadhan R.
ABSTRACT

This paper presents a broad overview of the various methods used to reduce the stickies from the conventional
recycling process operations to the development of enzymatic solutions especially designed to minimize the
stickies. It covers different mechanical, physio-chemical technologies, chemical treatments (passivation, fixation,
dispersion) and enzyme based solutions for the removal of stickies/reduction of their detrimental impacts in the
deinking process. Recent development on recycle compatible adhesives is also discussed in thes paper.

Keywords: Stickies, macro-stickies, micro-stickies, enzymes, stickies control, surfactant

Introduction Depending on the handling of the and thus the conditions in the pulper
While producing papers using recycled reject, stickies are either purged out are very important for the
fibres, mills very often face a problem of the system or recirculated back. The performance of the subsequent unit
of organic deposits which originate true exit points are usually the pulper processes.
from adhesives, ink binders and coating rejects, dewatering screen, cleaner,
binders on various equipment of the flotation and internal water treatment Screening
paper machine (wire, press, drying rejects, and wastewater. The efficiency of the removal of
cylinder, converting and calendaring stickies has increased with progress in
section). These detrimental Pulping screening technologies, which have
contaminants involved in deposit Pulping is not a removal step by itself. occurred over several years. Contoured
formation are often termed as stickies. N e v e r t h e l e s s , p u l p i n g l a rg e l y fine slot screens (with slots down to
Stickies able to pass a sieve of 100 or influences the removal of stickies and 0.15 mm and sometimes 0.10 mm)
150 μm (depending on standard) are other containments in the following remove most adhesive particles.
called micro-stickies, whereas the steps. Thus, the pulping step has to meet Unfortunately, some of them, mainly
particles retained on the screen are with contradictory requirements: to due to their small size and shape, still
called macro-stickies. Dissolved and reach a good defibering, to achieve a can go through the slots and
colloidal stickies are called secondary good ink detachment and at the same contaminate the accepted pulp. In this
stickies. There are standard methods for time to avoid the fragmentation of respect, it is assumed by Heise et al.
measuring macro-stickies, but a containments such as stickies. This is 2000 that 5 to 30% of primary stickies
standard method measuring the total why the old low consistency pulpers may pass through the screening slots.
amount of stickies is scanty. Many with high speed rotors and deflakers Thus, there is need of improvement in
problems are associated with these have been replaced by medium screening which includes design of new
deposits e.g. paper break, presence of consistency pulpers and their auxiliary equipment or new screening process.
spots, holes, dirt counts and reduction equipment in deinking plants. Drum
in drying efficiency due to felt pulpers have also been introduced in Cleaning
clogging. This phenomenon leads to order to keep contaminants in large The stickies removal efficiency of
frequent stoppage of the machine for pieces. Due to the absence of rotor, the cleaners depends on the density of the
cleaning of the clogged equipment. drum pulper does not have any cutting particles to be removed. Unfortunately
action and some contaminants, like a lot of stickies have a density close to 1
Control Of Stickies bookbinders, remain intact and are and are not removed effectively by
The control of stickies may be roughly rejected by the associated rotary screen. cleaning.
divided into two strategies; removal of To meet these requirements, a complete
stickies to the maximum extent and process has been proposed in order to Flotation
prevention of the remaining stickies to improve the removal of stickies in a Flotation appears to be an interesting
deposit. Removal of stickies is usually deinking plant; recovered paper is way to remove residual stickies from
the primary goal, and deposit control pulped at low temperature, without the pulp. However, recent works
is performed to minimize the chemical and fine screening and carried out in laboratory (Julien et al.
detrimental effects of the stickies that cleaning stages are implemented 1998) and in mill (Heise et al. 2000)
can't be removed. immediately after the pulping stage. show that the efficiency of flotation to
Removal of stickies may happen After thickening, hot dispersion with remove stickies depends on various
anywhere where there is a reject stream. chemicals, is then used for ink parameters such as the shape, size and
detachment before its removal in a surface properties of stickies, and also
second loop. on the hydrodynamic parameters.
Thapar Centre for Industrial Research Deinking chemistry is important for The main advantage of flotation
and Development, stickies removal in a deinking mill. (compared to screening in particular) is
Paper Mill Campus, P.O. Yamuna The stickies are detached from their its potential to remove small stickies
Nagar-135001 (Haryana) substrate in the pulper for the first time, (micro-stickies) from the pulp

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suspension. Indeed, it is reported in (organophilic). The bonding between stickies passivating agent (Williams
various papers that small size stickies, talc and stickies is based on adsorption. 1987, Vogel 2002).
which are not affected by screening, Indeed, the hydrophobic surface has an
present the best removal efficiencies affinity for stickies while the Control with organic additive
during flotation. It is also reported hydrophilic edges allow an easy Mainly two types of organic additives
(Heise et al. 2000) that the removal of dispersion of the talc in water. Thus, it is are used to control stickies; cationic
stickies in post flotation, performed believed that talc coats the stickies polymers and surface active agents.
after a dispersion step, must be more surface and consequently reduces their
efficient than in the pre-flotation step tacky character. Talc is often introduced Stickies fixation by cationic
where stickies are larger. In this regard, at the inlet of the kneader or disperser to polymers
Johansson et al. 2003 have shown that favor its mixture with the pulp The use of cationic polymers for the
flotation may remove over 70% of the components. stickies control is very common in
micro-stickies content of the pulp. More recently new talc application deinking and recycling mills. During
The high concentration of dissolved strategies have been proposed with the the pulping process, some of the paper
and colloidal materials in the pulp and aim to control stickies deposition: contaminants are dispersed in a
in the process water (resulting from the • It has been reported that the coating colloidal form and consequently can't
increased water loop closure) is of stickies by talc induces an be removed by the various
considered as a major cause of increase of their density (Biza et al. decontamination process of the
secondary stickies formation and 2002). As a consequence, this recycling chain. The role of the cationic
deposits. Thus, dissolved air allows the stickies to be more polymers that are added to the pulp is to
flotation of process waters, associated efficiently removed by high density prevent the formation of secondary
with the use of a cationic coagulant has cleaners. stickies. In fact, the principle of this
been proposed as a solution to reduce treatment is to induce a controlled
the colloids concentration in the • The surface treatment of the paper precipitation of the colloidal
process water and consequently to sheet in the forming section of the contaminant and their fixation onto the
reduce the secondary stickies problems. paper machine is done by spraying fibers, so that they are removed with the
the talc slurry onto the paper (Biza paper sheet (Taylor 2001).
Dispersion of primary stickies et al. 2001). This kind of treatment The higher retention of stickies also
Hot dispersion (by low speed kneaders enables to achieve the passivation prevents the accumulation of stickies in
or high speed dispersers) has been of the stickies which appears on the the white water, and makes the stickies
widely developed for the treatment of paper surface and which are the exit the system with the paper. Thinking
OCC containing waxes or hot-melts in most detrimental regarding deposit globally, this will introduce the stickies
order to avoid the formation of spots in formation. again to a papermaking system if the
the paper. In a deinking plant, hot • Modified talc (the hydroxyl groups produced paper is again recycled.
dispersion is efficient for dispersion of on the edges are modified by a Fixing of detrimental substances with
hot melts if particles have not been cationic polymer) is proposed for high-charge, low molecular weight
removed by cleaning and screening, but stickies control application organic polymers on the fiber may be
finely - divided hot-melt particles can (Sharma et al. 2002). The cationic thought as the first step of retention.
contribute later, in the wet part of the charge carried by this modified talc Too large particles don't stay on the
paper machine to the formation of is believed to favor both its fiber and end up depositing, but by
deposits. Adhesive particles from tapes attachment onto negatively charged micro fixation of the stickies as small as
and labels are not completely dispersed, stickies and its retention in the possible with optimized polymers,
but are reduced in size and their shape is paper sheet. machine downtime due to wire cleaning
changed; flat particles become can be reduced (Hättich et al. 2002). In
spherical, so some improvement in Bentonite order to reduce the stickies problem, the
their removal by screening can be Bentonite in association with stickies have to be made small with a
expected. In any case hot dispersion polyethylene oxide is used as a very non-ionic dispersant and fixed to fiber
can't be considered as the way to solve efficient retention system which largely as small particles with a high charge
the stickies problem. Some improves the stickies and pitch removal density fixative (Ward et al.1994).
improvement of visual aspect of the (Putz et al. 2003; Sjöström et al. 2004). Hamann et al. 2004 found that the
paper can be expected, but if hot This kind of system may be considered fixing of coated broke reduced the
dispersion is implemented without a as secondary stickies control: indeed, quantity of materials deposited. Gruber
previous efficient removal of adhesive the dispersed stickies are fixed by the et al. 2000 found aluminum sulphate
particles, secondary stickies will chemicals onto the fibers and and cationic fixatives to reduce wet
certainly appear later. consequently removed from the deposition of stickies. Poly-DADMAC
Therefore, hot dispersion of residual process by the paper sheet. together with acrylic acid or acrylamide
stickies has to be considered in relation is patented for deposit control (Song et
to the dispersion of residual ink and Diatomite al. 2006). Huo 2002 noticed poly-
specks, and implementation of a post- Diatomite is a mineral composed of the DADMAC to adsorb on the surface
flotation stage. skeletal remains of single celled aquatic of model micro-stickies and prevent
plants (diatoms). This mineral is mainly the agglomeration of the stickies. In
Control with mineral additives based on amorphous silica (90%) and the presence of fibers, poly-DADMAC
Talc presents both organophilic and was shown to form fiber-stickies-flocs.
Talc, hydrous magnesium silicate, has hydrophilic parts. These properties Cationic polyacrylamide (C-PAM) is
the planar surface, and is electrically explain why the product is proposed as very commonly used as a flocculant in
neutral and hydrophobic
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retention programs. C-PAM has been micro-stickies were investigated by polymer. It has been reported by Xin
shown to be able to fix model secondary Xin Huo 2002. The agglomeration of Huo 2002 that micro-stickies started to
stickies on the fibers and reduce micro-stickies with poly-DADMAC precipitate at the charge ratio of 1/3 for
deposition (Li & Zhan 2005). They also was reported mainly via a poly-DADMAC (Table 1). The
found that cationic starch destabilizes neutralization mechanism. In contrast, turbidity was found to decrease
model secondary stickies, but also the agglomeration of micro-stickies significantly from 100 to 30 NTU as the
adsorbs on the sticky surface and with cationic starch did not correspond charge ratio increased from 2/3 to 3/3.
reduces tackiness, while calcium may with neutralization mechanism. It was The maximum precipitation of micro-
boost the deposit formation. reported that both poly-DADMAC and stickies with poly-DADMAC occurred
The ability of different chemicals to cationic starch could stabilize the at the neutral point where the charge
coagulate and flocculate dissolved and micro-stickies if they were charged to ratio is 3/3, as determined by turbidity
colloidal substances was tested by the system in excess. measurement performed after mixing.
Tinna Sarja, 2007 on laboratory scale The stability of model micro-stickies in It was suggested that the flocculation of
with the turbidity difference method, the size range of 1 to 50µm has been the micro-stickies with poly-
which measures colloidal substances reported to depend on salt DADMAC was greatly assisted by
sensitive for pH shocks (mainly wood concentration and dosage of cationic charge neutralization. However, if the
extractives). charge ratio was raised to above 5/3, in
The figure 1 clearly shows that other words if the suspension was
polyaluminium chloride has the overcharged with cationic polymer, the
highest ability to coagulate the turbidity of the suspension increased,
colloidal substances and wood indicating that the sticky particles were
extractives. All chemicals enhanced somewhat restabilized by the
the flocculation as compared to the excess polymer. However, the
blank without any chemical. precipitated agglomerates produced at
The effects of fibers, different cationic Figure 2 a: Experimental all levels of poly-DADMAC were large
polymers and salts on the stability of the procedure for adsorption of in particle number and could not be
micro-stickies with cationic dispersed again by shaking the
polymer suspension vigorously.
The dosage of cationic starch was
according to the calculated charge
demand of the cationic starch and
micro-stickies (Table 2). The turbidity
of the suspension measured overnight
for the cationic starch decreased from
125 to 5 NTU as the charge ratio
increased from 4/3 to 5/3. Based on the
turbidity overnight, the maximum
precipitation occurred at a charge ratio
of 5/3 for the cationic starch rather than
at the neutral point as for the poly-
DADMAC. The reason may be that
starch has a much higher molecular
weight and lower charge density than
starch which may prohibit the access of
sticky particles. Similar to the poly-
DADMAC, the sticky particles treated
with cationic starch could be

Sample Chemical Dose

number (ppm)
0 None -
1 Bentonite/A-PAM 30/2
2 Cat.fix/C-PAM 20/2
3 Poly-DADMAC 30
4 PAC 400

Figure 1: Effect of different

coagulation and flocculation
chemicals on the turbidity
difference of paper machine loop
DAF inlet. A-PAM = anionic
polyacrylamide, C-PAM = cationic
polyacrylamide, PAC =
polyaluminum chloride
(Tinna Sarja, 2007) Figure 2b: Effect of polymer on stability of micro-stickies

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 Table 1: Stability of micro-stickies in the presence of poly-DADMAC
(Xin Huo 2002) Stickies control by surfactant
Dosage of poly- After mixing Overnight Agglomerate Average particles ?
In one of the approaches concerning the
DADMAC turbidity Turbidity inside
(charge ratio) floc (after mixing)
use of surfactant; products having a
(NTU) (NTU)
passivating action (reducing the tacky
0 no precipitation(130) *(130) Stirrer, irreversible 1
1/10 *(130) *(130) top, irreversible very large
character of stickies) are proposed
1/5 *(130) *(125) top, irreversible very large (Hall and Nguyen 1998), which are
1/3 ***(125) No change(120) wall, irreversible very large based on particular non-ionic
2/3 ***(120) No change(100) top, irreversible very large surfactants (ethoxylated alkyl phenol,
3/3 ***(30) No change(30) top, irreversible very large ethylene oxide - propylene oxide block
4/3 ***(30) No change(30) top, irreversible very large
5/3 ***(120) No change(105) top, irreversible very large
copolymers). However, these products
9/3 ***(130) No change(120) top, irreversible very large only modify the surface properties of
The symbols * and *** indicate the appearance of a small amount and significantly
stickies, but don't favor the removal of
larger amounts of precipitate respectively. the stickies particles.
The other approaches targeted for
Table 2: Stability of micro-stickies in the presence of cationic starch stickies removal (Bossaer 1999, Doshi
(Xin Huo 2002) and Dyer, 1999, Severtson et al. 1999,
Dosage of After mixing Overnight Agglomerate Average particles Coffey 1999) are as follows:
cationic starch Turbidity Turbidity ? inside - Combined treatment based on
(charge ratio) (NTU) (NTU) floc.(after mixing)
dispersant, generally added at the
0 No precipitation(120) *(120) bottom, irreversible 1 beginning of process (pulping) in
1/10 *(120) no change(100) bottom, irreversible 1 order to favor the dispersion and the
1/7.5 ***(90) no change(85) top, irreversible very large passivation of the stickies, and on
1/5 ***(120) no change(110) top, irreversible very large
cationic fixing agent added near the
paper machine intended to fix the
1/3 ***(130) no change(110) top, irreversible very large
stickies previously dispersed onto
2/3 ***(140) no change(105) top, reversible 188 fibers and thus to eliminate them
3/3 ***(130) no change(120) top, reversible 174 via produced paper.
4/3 ***(135) no change(120) bottom, reversible 67 - For the treatment of the waxed
5/3 ***(125) very clear (5) bottom, reversible 25 paperboards a combined treatment
has been suggested; in the first
9/3 ***(130) clear (40) bottom, reversible 2
phase (pulping) the wax is
The symbols * and *** indicate the appearance of a small amount dispersed at low temperature using
and significantly larger amounts of precipitate, respectively. a specific formulation including a
wax melting point depressor and an
their interaction with the colloidal anionic dispersant. The dispersed
restabilized by overcharging these
stickies. The use of a fixed dosage of the paraffin is then separated from the
particles at a charge ratio of 9/3. It was
fixing agent may, in some cases, fibers by a washing or thickening
noted that the flocs precipitated by the
represent a drawback (Gould, 1993). stage. Finally, the resulting water,
cationic starch were different from
The major risk is certainly linked to a containing dispersed wax, is treated
those from poly-DADMAC. The
decrease of the colloidal contaminant by micro-flotation (DAF) with a
average particles per floc for cationic
concentration. Indeed, as the coagulant specific chemistry which enables
starch became countable at a charge
dosage is fixed, a decrease of the colloid the removal of wax particles.
ratio over 2/3 and the average particles
concentration will induce a higher Surfactant may also be used to treat
per floc decreased as the charge ratio
destabilization level. This no-well- paper machine clothing such as felts or
increased. These flocs were also
controlled destabilization may in some wires. The principle is to directly treat
reversible, meaning that on vigorous
cases give rise to a sudden formation of (usually with surface active agent) the
shaking, the suspension became very
secondary stickies. paper machine equipment, which is
turbid again. It was suggested that the
To avoid this drawback, solutions are sensitive to deposits. Two types of
forces that made the micro-stickies
proposed, which usually consist of applications can be distinguished:
flocculate in the presence of cationic
regulating the dosage of fixing agent - Protection of wires and felts (Lynch
starch were weaker than those caused
(Renaud, 2001). For this purpose, the 1993)
by the poly-DADMAC. In fact, the
anionic colloid concentration is The treatment is intended to modify
difference in turbidity after mixing and
continuously measured (online charge the surface properties of the wire or
after settling overnight for the cationic
measurement) and the dosage of the the felt in order to make them more
starch was attributed to reversible
coagulant is adjusted on the basis of the hydrophilic, which would tend to
shear-induced breakage during mixing.
charge content of the pulp. prevent the stickies deposition. A
The results showed that the cationic
Consequently, a target of charge level is solution containing specific
starch (more hydrophilic) was less
achieved which enables very stable surface-active agent is thus sprayed
effective in flocculating the micro-
running condition. Such a controlled onto the wires or felts by means of
stickies (Xin Huo 2002).
system not only reduces stickies the rinsing water. This enables the
In some cases these polymers are
problem, but also leads to many other formation of a protective coating
modified with the introduction of
advantages like improvement of thus reducing the stickies adhesion.
specific functional groups (usually
efficiency of cationic starch, retention - Cleaning of wires and felts
hydrophobic groups) in order to favor
and drainage aids. These treatments take place during
paper machine shutdowns. For this

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 purpose, cleaning solutions are of the enzymatic pulping, the MOW coated into the MOW and was pulped
used, which are mixtures generally and ONP contained sticky synthetic with each condition. Then the black
containing soda (2 to 5%), anionic polymers. When enzymes were used as sticky deposit in the handsheet of the
or non-ionic (0.1 to 0.5%) a pulping additive, the content of the MOW was analyzed by image analysis.
surfactant and cleaning agent. sticky compounds was higher in the As shown in figure 4, the particle size of
reject materials of the screen. It was the hot melt adhesive in the pulp
Stickies control by enzymes considered that the enzyme attacked the defibrillated with the enzymes was a
A new enzyme-based control system surface of the paper where the sticky little larger than that of the alkaline
breaks macro-stickies into smaller compounds were applied and released pulping condition. It means that the
particles that can be removed from the the same from the fibre. Therefore, the large size sticky film was more easily
mill process, thus reducing their impact sticky content of the 200 mesh passed rejected in the screen (Park et al. 2004).
on runnability and paper quality. It uses fraction was reduced in both the ONP Figure 4: Morphology of hot melt
esterase-type enzymes to break down and MOW. The sticky compounds in adhesive mixed with carbon black
the stickies into smaller, less tacky the 200 mesh passed fraction could be particles on MOW pulp slurry before
particles. potential colloidal stickies and flowed screening (Park et al. 2004)
A study of the chemical composition of into the white waters of the Table 4 show that the sticky content of
stickies reveals that those contain a papermaking system and caused the the rejects on the Lamort screen of
number of ester-type bonds that link the sticky troubles. enzyme treatment is much higher than
basic building blocks of the sticky In order to understand how the enzymes that of control. Also, the content of
together. This directed the search to can reduce the sticky content in the sticky contaminants in the final product
esterase-type enzymes, an enzyme reject material in the Sweco screen, a predominantly decreased with the
product for stickies control that carbon black mixed with hot melts was enzymatic pulping.
catalyzes the breaking of ester bonds. Buckman Laboratories has developed
Breaking the ester bonds reduces the an enzyme (esterase) which is able to
break down the macro-stickies and
Table 3: The content of sticky compounds of fractionated ONP and micro-stickies (Jones et al. 2003). This
MOW pulping slurries (Park et al. 2004) development is based on the
ONP MOW observation that stickies often contain
in their structure a number of ester
SR (%) A (%) P (%) SR (%) A (%) P (%)
bonds which may be attacked by
Water 17.2 0.2 82.6 43.1 43.1 13.8 esterases.
1.5% NaOH 15.6 " 84.2 44.8 49.5 5.7
Design of recycling compatible
Enzyme 20.1 " 79.7 53.7 42.5 3.8
adhesives
SR; Sweco screen reject, A; 200 mesh accept, P; 200 mesh pass For some years, adhesive suppliers

size of the sticky into smaller

components. A key advantage of this Table 4: Content of stickies in dried pulp processed from tissue and
approach is that once broken down, the glazed paper (Park et al. 2004)
chance of the particles reagglomerating Sampling Tissue paper Machine glazed paper
further in the process is greatly
reduced. Enzyme (%) Control (%) Enzyme (%) Control (%)
Park et al., 2004 has reported that the Pulper 0.46 0.46 0.16 0.16
amount of sticky contaminants in Lamort screen reject (Re) 3.96 2.49 0.24 0.18
screen rejects increased with the
High shaking screen accept 1.73 1.58 0.12 0.14
enzyme treatment and the content of (Ac)
toluene extract in the final product was Lamort screen accept (Ac) 0.35 0.39 0.07 0.33
decreased. Table 3 shows the content of
the sticky compounds. In each fraction Product 0.31 0.76 0.46 0.54

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