L. Marchildon et al., THE EFFECT OF DOUBLE-BONDS PRESENT IN THE SURFACTANT ON THE DEINKING EFFICIENCY OF XEROGRAPHIC PAPER, Journal of pulp and paper science, 19(4), 1993, pp. 100000156-100000166
The use of stearic acid, which has no double bonds in its carbon chain
, removes much more ink from the fibre in the pulper and gives the bes
t overall efficiency of deinking (pulping and flotation) compared with
oleic or linoleic acid. The separation of ink from the fibres and the
overall efficiency of the deinking process increase with the addition
of silicate for unsaturated fatty acids with two double bonds. This p
aper examines also the influence of the number of separated ink partic
les on the optical properties of the paper.