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In order to use Stickies in another language, download one of the files below. Each zip file contains a single file called language101.dll. Put this into the same directory as stickies.exe (probably c:\Program Files (x86)\stickies), and restart Stickies for all the menus, messages and dialogs to be translated to that language.
I remove any sealed frames from the brood boxes which contain only honey to make more room for brood. I freeze the frames and then cover in plastic to prevent wax moth damage. When I have 8 frames or so I extract using the old fashioned method. I put the stickies in a super above the Flow super for the bees to clean up. Unfortunately they are cleaning the frames up but storing honey in the centre of each frame and appear to be removing honey from the Flow super. Anybody have any suggestions please
Hi Stephen, can I suggest only leaving the stickies in the super for a day or two and then removing them. That way they no longer have the choice in moving honey around. Additionally, if you have removed honey from the brood box and replaced with foundation, then they are going to need food supplies to draw out those new frames. They could also be moving honey from the Flow frames down into the brood box to make up for the honey you moved out.
As adhesive technology becomes more and more complex and the demand for recycled fiber in packaging grows, mills are getting stuck with a bigger and bigger problem. Stubborn stickies. They downgrade quality, reduce output, and cost a lot of money. In fact, stickies cost the pulp and paper industry tens of millions of dollars every year.
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The effect of heat-dispersing on sticky substances in a deinking pulping line was studied under different conditions including varying temperature, disc clearance, and pulp consistency. Sticky substances were quantitatively investigated before and after the heat-dispersing, and categorized into macro-, mini-, and micro-stickies as well as dissolved and colloidal substances. Meanwhile, their extents of removal in post-flotation were evaluated. The results showed that raising temperature, reducing disc clearance, or increasing pulp consistency significantly improved the dispersion of sticky particles, an effect that will be beneficial to their removal in the subsequent flotation process. Under temperature of 100 C, disc clearance of 0.3 mm, and pulp consistency of 30%, macro- and mini-stickies decreased by 92% and 83%, respectively. Due to being dispersed to smaller sizes, removals of mini- and micro-stickies were enhanced in post-flotation to 25-26% and 68-70%, respectively. Only a small amount of dissolved and colloidal substances was removed in flotation.
Stickies remain one of the major obstacles in the manufacturing of quality newsprint paper from recycled fibers. Generally, they may be divided into macro-, micro-stickies, and dissolved and colloidal substances, as well as primary and secondary stickies (Johansson et al. 2003; Doshi et al. 2008). Macro-stickies refer to tacky particles that are retained on a laboratory screen with slots of 100 μm or 150 μm. Stickies smaller than 100 μm or 150 μm, but larger than 1 μm to 5 μm are called micro-stickies. Primary stickies originate directly from lipophilic wood extractives released during the repulping processes, and various synthetic adhesives introduced during processing or using of papers, for example, coating and printing, etc. Secondary stickies come mainly from dissolved and colloidal substances (DCS) in deinked pulps; they may be converted to sticky substances when pH, temperature, or the chemical environment of the pulp changes (Brun et al. 2007; Blanco et al. 2010).
Usually, fine screening in a deinking pulping line can remove most of the macro-stickies. However, during fine screening a portion of the large sticky particles may pass through the slots of the screen and remain in the pulp. This is caused by the pressure and shear force during the operation of fine screening, and it occurs frequently in a mill practice. It is these sticky particles remaining in the pulp that may cause the stickies problems in the paper machine system if they are not efficiently removed from the system in the subsequent processes.
According to the literature (Gallan et al. 2009; Lascar et al. 2010; Delagoutte et al. 2010), most stickies in the portion remaining in screened pulp range between 100 μm and 1000 μm, and these stickies can be categorized as mini-stickies. If they have not undergone further dispersion, mini-stickies may not be effectively removed in the subsequent post-flotation process, and they will consequently remain in the pulp and cause obstacles to running of paper machines (Lee et al. 2006; Sarja et al. 2007; Hamann et al. 2005).
Analyses of macro-stickies and mini-stickies were basically carried out according to the INGED No.4 Method. 10 g of pulp sample (o.d.) was diluted to 1% concentration, and screened by using a Pulmac MasterScreen. A 20 mesh wire and a 100 μm slotted plate were applied for separating macro-stickies, mini-stickies, and fiber fractions. Macro-stickies (remain on the 20 mesh wire) and mini-stickies (remain on the 100 μm slotted plate) were respectively transferred to a black filter paper, and then covered with a sheet of silicone-coated paper. Under pressure of 95 KPa, the sheets were dried at 94 C for 10 min. The sheet was dyed black with black water-based ink, then dried again. Subsequently, the specimen was covered with a thick layer of white special fused alumina powder. Then the top and bottom sides were covered with couching board, and the assembly was dried for 10 min at 94 C. At the end, loose powder was removed with a soft cosmetic brush, and the specimen was examined with a scanner-based image analysis system (Verity IA Master-Screen). The contents of stickies were reported as mm2/kg, and an average of 5 measurements was recorded as the result.
10 g of pulp sample (o.d.) was diluted with deionized water to a concentration of 1% and agitated at 60 C for 1 hour. The pulp suspension was then filtrated with a Dynamic Drainage Jar (100-mesh screen) to remove fiber fractions. 50 mL of filtrate was centrifuged at 450 g for 20 min. to obtain the supernatant which contained dissolved and colloidal substances (DCS), while the sediments contained micro-stickies. The supernatant was evaporated and dried at 105 C, and the weight of remains was accounted as DCS. The sediments were dried and extracted with 100 mL of tetrahydro-furan (THF) for 6 hours. The extracts were concentrated through evaporation and dried with a stream of N2 gas, then again in a vacuum desiccator at 40 C for 20 min. The weight increase was accounted as micro-stickies (Sarja et al. 2004; MacNeil et al. 2006; Doshi 2009). An average of 10 measures was recorded as the result.
First, the disc clearance of the heat disperser was set to 0.3 mm and the inlet pulp consistency was set to 30% to investigate status of sticky substances and their content. It can be seen from Fig. 2 that the content of macro-stickies was decreased by raising the operating temperature. About 88% of macro-stickies were dispersed to smaller sizes at 100 C. Mini-stickies increased slightly at 70 C, then they began to decrease with further increase in temperature. About 78% of mini-stickies were dispersed at 100 C.
It is easy to understand that sticky substances were not sufficiently softened at lower temperatures. Particles having larger sizes still maintained after dispersion, and such particles were retained on the 100 μm screen. When the temperature was raised to the range 90 to 100 C, sticky substances were well softened and could be dispersed into smaller sizes, i.e. forming micro-stickies or DCS. Therefore, contents of macro- and mini-stickies decreased significantly after heat-dispersing. This is in agreement with the literature (Liu et al. 2005), which indicates that the softening temperature of most adhesives, i.e. stickies originated substances such as ink binding adhesives, coating adhesives, hot melt adhesives, and pressure-sensitive adhesives, are substantially softened above 85-90 C. Therefore, to achieve better dispersion of stickies, heat-dispersing should be performed at temperatures of 90 to 100 C.
Reducing the disc clearance significantly decreased the amount of macro- and mini-stickies, especially the latter. Compared to dispersion at a clearance of 0.6 mm, about 77% of mini-stickies were dispersed to smaller sizes at a disc clearance of 0.3 mm. Reducing disc clearance improved rubbing and curlating of pulp fibers, which conse-quently enhanced dispersion of stickies. It should be noted that reduced clearance also led to increased energy consumption and fiber strength loss. Therefore, it is suggested that heat-dispersing should be run at a disc clearance in the range of 0.3 to 0.4 mm.
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