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Dr. Peter Hart

WestRock

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Gunnar
Nicholson
Gold Medal
TAPPI MEMBER

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Director, Fiber Science and Innovation, WestRock specializing in pulping, bleaching, evaporators, chemical recovery, recausticization, refining, and wet end chemistry. Peter has been a member of TAPPI since 1982. He is a TAPPI Fellow and serves on the Pulp Manufacture Division Council, the Alkaline Pulping and Bleaching Committee, and the TAPPI Journal Editorial Board.

Peter is co-editor of "Brownstock Washing Fundamentals and Practices," and authored or co-authored 11 of the 23 chapters of this 751 page book, published in the fall of 2017 by TAPPI Press. This book provides entry level engineers with a practical understanding of brownstock washer operations along with a solid fundamental understanding of the basic principles of washing. He has also co-edited "The Bleaching of Pulp: 5th Edition", and authored or co-authored 6 of the 20 chapter of this 829 page book. Peter is currently working as a co-editor and contributor for a new Lime Kiln and Recausticizing textbook planned to be published in late 2019. He has served as a co-editor for 5 AIChE Symposium textbooks and Peter has published more than 90 peer reviewed publications, several of which have appeared in TAPPI Journal over the last 20+ years.