인쇄하지 않은 복사용지에 대해 침지, 탈수, 건조등 일련의 리사이클링 사이클의 반복횟수에 따라 얻어지는 재생지의 광학적 성질의 변화와, 리사이클링 횟수를 달리한 펄프를 이용하여 고지를 제조한 후 하여 고지의 탈묵성 변화를 살펴보았다. 그 결과, 리사이클링 횟수 증가에 따라 얻어진 재생지의 백색도는 원래보다 약10% 저하되었으나, 섬유간 결합감소에 따른 비산란계수의 증가로 불투명도는 약10%정도 증가하는 경향을 보였다. 또한, 리사이클링 횟수에 따른 고지의 탈묵성은 섬유의 표면 자유에너지 감소, 즉 섬유의 소수화 증가로 인하여 약간 저하되는 것으로 나타났다.
This study examined the effects of recycling on chemical pulp fibers from multiple recycles. Firstly, water-pretreated alkaline photocopy paper was disintegrated by TAPPI standard disintegrator at room temperature. After dewatering, this pulp was dried in oven at $80^{circ}C$ for 24hrs. A sequence of wetting, disintegrating and drying was one recycling cycle and this cyclic treatment was repeated from zero to five times. The recycled handsheet dropped to 90% of the original brightness after five cycles, and lost the most brightness in the first two cycles. However, it had a gain of 10% in opacity after five cycles. And, in this study, the method for determining residual ink(toner) content in recycled handsheets were estabilished by means of SEM-EDX and atomic absorptive photometer. The change of residual ink percentage on recycled paper showed the effect of recycling numbers on deinkability of waste paper. A slight decrease in deinkability was noted for the recycled handsheets, which may be due to the change of fiber surface free energy connected with fiber swelling.
