Editorial: Special pulping and engineering issues of TAPPI Journal yield important recovery cycle research, TAPPI Journal June 2024

An avid writer, Peter published many award-winning papers. He was a five-time recipient of the Pulp Manufacture Division’s David Wetherhorn Award, as sponsored by the Alkaline Pulping and Bleaching Committee. The award is given to the paper that makes breakthroughs in our knowledge of alkaline pulping/pulp bleaching that is directly applicable to pulp manufacturing. Peter also wrote two papers that won the High Impact Paper Award at PEERS. For his writing in TAPPI Journal, Peter won two annual Best Research Paper Awards, as voted on by the TAPPI Journal Editorial Board.

Author: Monica Shaw

ABSTRACT: The June issue of TAPPI Journal, which is dominated by recovery cycle topics, is the last PEERS issue organized by Dr. Peter Hart, the former editor-in-chief who passed away this past May. Peter, who was heavily involved with TAPPI’s Pulp Manufacture Division and various pulping-related committees, also started working with conference technical program planning starting in 2005 with the Engineering, Pulping and Environmental (EPE) Conference, which was the precursor to the more recent Pulping, Engineering, Environmental, Recycling and Sustainability (PEERS) Conference. He was also involved with other conference planning, including that for the International Pulp Bleaching Conference. In addition, Peter was a yearly attendee of such conferences starting as far back as 1990.