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Record W194602419

Power generation and export: a new strategy for the survival of the Kamloops pulp mill

2006· dissertation· en· W194602419 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Anthony John Ryan

Bibliographic record

VenueSummit (Simon Fraser University) · 2006
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEnergy
TopicCoal and Coke Industries Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMillPulp millPaper millPulp (tooth)Environmental sciencePulp and paper industryMining engineeringGeologyEngineeringWaste managementMechanical engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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This paper presents a new strategy for survival of the Kamloops Cellulose Fibers softwood pulp mill. The mill currently competes exclusively in the North American softwood segment of the global kraft market, and is not generating returns sufficient to cover the cost of capital. The mill?s boilers need replacing or rebuilding in five years and the mill faces a more stringent environmental permit. Pressures on production costs make it increasingly difficult to continue operating profitably. By addressing the mill?s needs with equipment that can generate more electrical power, the mill can compete in a new market ? the independent producer segment of the provincial power generation market. This market is more attractive than the kraft market. This paper will analyze the two different industries as well as the mill, and determine whether the proposed project is financially viable and is thus a valid survival strategy for the Kamloops Cellulose Fibers mill.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.999
Threshold uncertainty score0.015

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0000.001
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.032
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.214 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Published2006
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