Experiment and modeling of liquid absoption process of paper towel.

毛巾产品是一个快速增长的战略市场，加拿大工业在提供原材料、制造和开发为产品增值的新技术方面发挥着重要作用。2016年，毛巾产品为加拿大行业带来了17亿美元的收入，2017年的增长预期为1.5%。尽管这些产品已经生产和商业化几十年了，但我们对毛巾性能如何与制造过程及其微观结构联系在一起的了解仍然非常有限。因此，通过这个项目将获得对纸巾产品的基本了解，这将导致消除昂贵的反复试验过程优化，并增加加拿大纸巾行业的竞争力。加拿大与FP Innovattions拟议的研究项目是使用建模技术和商业产品实验的组合来了解纸巾产品的力学。这项提议旨在为与FPI和可能的加拿大其他造纸商共同开展毛巾产品力学的长期研究计划奠定基础。成功完成与FPICanada的这项Engage研究，预计将导致一项长期研究计划，以解决毛巾产品的复杂性，并使加拿大行业在竞争激烈的毛巾产品市场上获得潜在的科学和技术。

Towel products is a rapidly growing and strategic market where Canadian industries play a major role inproviding raw materials, manufacturing and developing new technologies that add value to the products. For2016, the towel products represented $1.7 Billion in revenue for the Canadian industries and the growthprojections are 1.5% for 2017. Despite the fact that these products have been produced and commercialized formany decades, our understanding of how towel properties are linked to the manufacturing process and itsmicrostructure is still very limited. Therefore, fundamental understanding of the towel products that will beobtained with this project will lead to the elimination of costly trial-and-error process optimization and increasethe competitiveness of Canadian tissue industry.The proposed research engagement with FPInnovattions, Canada is on understanding mechanics of paper towelproducts using a combination of modeling techniques and experiments on commercial products. This proposalis intended to form a basis for long term research program on mechanics of towel products with FPI andpossible other paper manufacturers from Canada. Successful completion of this ENGAGE research with FPICanada is expected to lead to a long term research program in untangling the complexities of the towelproducts and making the underlying science and technology available to Canadian industries in the competitivemarket of towel products.