Beca AMEC engineers are often called on to provide and present technical papers to various industry bodies and conferences, where we share research as well as how we’ve implemented new technologies or used existing processes in innovative ways.
Listed below is a selection of the most recent papers.
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4D Construction Planning
Kajal Mukherjee, Richard Clarke
Linear, 2-Dimensional and now 3-Dimensional visualization are the current tools used in the construction planning area. It is time for a new dimension to be added - the dimension in which Planning Engineers are more interested. The dimension is TIME, which is now appropriate to add as the 4th dimension in construction planning. Read more...
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Sulphur Dioxide Ambient Monitoring and Dispersion Modelling Comparison Study, Kinleith Mill
Tracy Freeman
The objective of the 2009 modelling study, which is the subject of this paper, was to determine whether the reason for the disparity between 2003 modelling results and subsequent monitoring data lay in the location of the monitoring stations, the emission data used in the model, or overly conservative modelling methodology. Read more...
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Liquor Cycle Optimisation at Australian Paper, Maryvale Mill
Tony Johnson
Integrated kraft pulpmills gain economic viability from the ability to recover and regenerate active pulping chemicals. Within recovery operations any one unit operation can constrain the liquor cycle and limit pulp production capacity. Read more...
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India - An Emerging Giant in the Pulp and Paper Industry
Tony Johnson, Barbara Johnson and Kajal Mukherjee
India has major demand drivers that are cause for a very positive outlook in the pulp and paper industry. These include 9.5% GDP growth, increasing literacy, growing consumerism and optimism and a will to expand by industry leaders. Read more...
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Carter Holt Harvey Kinleith – Base Isolation of the No.8 Power Boiler
Gavin Frost
In order to improve the seismic resilience of the No.8 Power Boiler at Carter Holt Harvey Pulp and Paper Limited’s Kinleith Mill, leadrubber bearings were retrofitted to the boiler during the annual maintenance shutdown. An innovative approach was required to meet the requirements for re-certification of
the boiler as a pressure vessel subject to earthquake loading. Read more...
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