The effects of refining history and recycling times of NSSC pulp as a representative of semi-chemical pulps were studied. The results indicated that NSSC behaved as would be expected for a chemical pulp in all aspects. In fact, increasing the recycling cycles decreased the apparent density, tensile index, burst index, tear index, water retention value (WRV), and increased the hornification. In the current research, 400 mL CSF was judged to be the most suitable treatment among the refining levels considered. In the case of virgin pulp 400 mL CSF yielded better results than 500 mL CSF in all aspects (apparent density, tensile index, burst index, tear index, WRV and hornification). Also, there was not much difference with 300 mL CSF in these properties. Generally, a refining history of 400 mL CSF gave rise to the least negative influence on different properties compared to 500 and 300 mL CSF in 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd recycling cycles of NSSC.
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