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274 J. Hämäläinen, T. Hämäläinen, E. Madetoja, H. Ruotsalainen<br />

Angle (˚)<br />

CD Position (m)<br />

Measured<br />

Estimated<br />

Optimized<br />

Fig. 9.6 Measured, estimated (Step 1) <strong>and</strong> optimized (Step 2) fiber orientation pr<strong>of</strong>iles<br />

optimal control for the slice opening pr<strong>of</strong>ile in order to obtain an even fiber<br />

orientation angle, that is, with angles equal to zero. When the optimal slice<br />

opening pr<strong>of</strong>ile is found, it can be fed into actual slice opening control system<br />

<strong>of</strong> the paper machine.<br />

Nowadays, the HOCS Fiber simulator is installed on the papermaking engineer’s<br />

laptop, <strong>and</strong> hence the necessary control corrections can be calculated<br />

<strong>and</strong> implemented at the paper mill. Despite the model reductions, the accuracy<br />

<strong>of</strong> the HOCS Fiber has been confirmed: typically, for the first paper<br />

machine start-up, only one slice opening tuning proposed by the s<strong>of</strong>tware is<br />

needed. HOCS Fiber has been successfully used at dozens <strong>of</strong> paper mills <strong>and</strong><br />

one example <strong>of</strong> a real trouble shooting case is given in Fig. 9.6. As seen in<br />

the figure, the fiber orientation angle is much better after optimization than<br />

the original one measured at the mill. The original fiber orientation pr<strong>of</strong>ile<br />

may cause problems in printing machines, but the optimized pr<strong>of</strong>ile fulfills<br />

all the market requirements.<br />

9.3.3 Depth-averaged Navier-Stokes Equations<br />

In order to be able to optimize the fiber orientation for trouble shooting<br />

purposes, certain model simplifications have to be carried out. First <strong>of</strong> all,<br />

the FOPD model cannot be used. Instead, the expected value <strong>of</strong> the FOPD<br />

is assumed to be determined by the mean velocity field. Furthermore, instead

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