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Frictional Impulse in Mechanical Wood Grinding Bruno Lönnberg Prof. emeritus, Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland Tom Lind Process engineer, Paper Technology Division, Pöyry Forest Industry Oy, Helsinki, Finland Olli Tuovinen Research manager, Metso Paper, Valkeakoski, Finland ABSTRACT A frictional impulse was tested in wood grinding by employment of data produced on a laboratory scale implying that grindstone and wood quality may be considered unchanged. It means that the grinding parameters can be studied sufficiently, also because any effects of the grindstone curvature can practically be eliminated, since the grinding opening is small. The frictional impulse is defined as a ratio between the compression force and the peripheral grindstone speed. Both factors are basically independently selectable, and they affect the wood advance rate (fiberising speed) and drag/shear force (fibrillation degree and coarse fiber content), which hence are dependent factors. Obtained results confirm that the frictional impulse better than compression force described the grinding in terms of wood advance rate and drag force. Their linear correlation coefficients at peripheral speeds of 15-30 m/s were 0.98-0.99. In a later study the correlation coefficients were 0.94-0.99 at 30 m/s. It seems that grinding may well be described by the frictional impulse proposed. Freeness obtained at 30 m/s peripheral speed is a function of the frictional impulse with a correlation coefficient of 0.88-0.99, where the lower values are representative for PGW. It also appears that the coarse fiber fraction (+28 mesh) followed the entire frictional impulse data obtained at 3.5-30 m/s GW grindings with a correlation coefficient of 0.86. The linear correlation coefficients for coarse fiber fraction, sheet density, tens