Kraft Pulping By Product Conversion To Recyclable Chemicals And Steam Training

Learning Outcomes

• Describe the chemical recovery cycle in kraft pulping and identify key by-products.
• Apply principles of black liquor evaporation and combustion to generate steam and recover chemicals.
• Analyze the efficiency of recovery processes and identify opportunities for improvement.
• Implement safety procedures for handling high-temperature and high-pressure recovery equipment.
• Evaluate environmental impacts and compliance requirements for chemical recovery operations.
• Demonstrate proper start-up, shutdown, and troubleshooting of recovery boiler operations.

Target Audience

This course is designed for process operators, chemical engineers, and technical personnel working in or entering the kraft pulping sector who need to understand by-product recovery and conversion.

Prerequisites

None — open enrollment

Course Outline

Practicals

Overview

Practical sessions are essential to develop hands-on skills in operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting recovery equipment. Learners will simulate black liquor evaporation, recovery boiler operation, causticizing, and steam distribution using pilot-scale or virtual simulators, and perform laboratory analyses on by-product samples.

Practical Activities

• Black Liquor Evaporation Simulation — Operate a multiple-effect evaporator simulator, adjusting steam flow and feed rate to achieve target solids concentration. (16h)
• Recovery Boiler Operation and Steam Generation — Use a recovery boiler simulator to manage combustion, steam generation, and bed conditions under normal and upset scenarios. (16h)
• Causticizing and Lime Kiln Lab — Perform lab-scale causticizing and lime mud reburning, measuring white liquor effective alkali and lime reactivity. (16h)
• Turpentine and Tall Oil Recovery Practical — Simulate turpentine condensation and decantation, and tall oil soap acidulation in a laboratory setting. (16h)

Summatives

Each delegate is assessed continuously throughout the course via daily exercises, scored practical assignments, and a final summative test at the end.

Practical Assignments — 30%

Practical assignments are observed and scored against a rubric during the practical sessions. Each delegate's practical mark is averaged into a single 100% score and contributes 30% to the final total.

Daily Exercises — 20%

Every training day ends with a multiple-choice exercise scored out of 100%. The scores from each daily exercise are averaged across the duration of the course to produce a Daily Average mark, which contributes 20% to the final total.

Final Test — 50%

On the last day a final summative test is written. It is a multiple-choice paper with multiple-answer questions: each question may have more than one correct option, and a single wrong selection on a question marks the entire question wrong — no partial credit. The final test is scored out of 100% and contributes 50% to the overall mark.

Final Total

Component	Out of	Weight
Practical Assignments (rubric-scored)	100%	30%
Daily Average (multiple choice)	100%	20%
Final Test (multi-answer multiple choice)	100%	50%
Final Total	—	100%

All marks are recorded on the AATICD LMS and visible to each learner under their account.

Certificate

How it works

• Certificates are auto-generated on the AATICD LMS as soon as the marks pass the 50% threshold.
• Each certificate is a branded PDF with the delegate's name, the course title, the unit standard ID, NQF level, credits, and the date of issue.
• You can download or print your certificate from your LMS dashboard at any time after issue — there's no reissue fee and no expiry date.
• If you scored under 50% you can sit the final test again at the next scheduled session at no extra cost.

Where to find it

Sign in to the LMS, open your dashboard, and your certificates appear under My Certificates. Each entry has a View / Download button and a print option.

Training Discounts

Group discounts apply automatically — the more delegates you enrol, the greater the saving. Discounts are calculated at 3% per 5 delegates, scaling up to 40% off for 100+ delegates.

Delegates	Discount
5	3% off
10	6% off
15	9% off
20	12% off
25	15% off
30	18% off
50	30% off
75	35% off
100	40% off

3% discount per 5 delegates, up to 40% off for 100+ delegates. Contact us for a custom group quote.