The business owner’s background

Kurt Siren

• Studies: Åbo Akademi, main subjects inorganic and analytical chemistry. M.Ph. 1979, Lic. Ph. 1984.
• Technical Research Center of Finland (VTT) 1981-1985.
• Finnish Pulp and Paper Research Institute (KCL) 1985-2008. The Department of Analytical Chemistry 1985-1996, as foreman of a laboratory group. Researcher and project leader in 1996-2008.
• From 2008 onwards a business owner.

Research fields

• Enclosing water circulation at the pulp mill
• Scaling in the black liquor evaporator
• Controlling sulphur balance
• Removing potassium and chlorine
• Soap separationa

Presentations and posters in international conferences

Int. Chemical Recovery Conference, Tampa, Florida 1998: Poster: analytical methods for the determination of metals, silicon, and phosphorous in Kraft pulp mill samples

ABTCP-PI Conference (Associacao Brasileira Tecnica de Celulose e Papel and Paperi-insinööriyhdistys), Sao Paulo, Brazil, 2005: Presentation, calcium carbonate scaling in black liquor evaporation.



Int. Chemical Recovery Conference, Quebec, Canada, 2007: Presentation, calcium carbonate scaling in black liquor evaporation.