公开(公告)号：US10306915B2

公开(公告)日：2019-06-04

申请号：US14263530

申请日：2014-04-28

Applicant: Altria Client Services LLC

Inventor： John Kotrola ,  Ujwala Warek ,  James Arthur Strickland ,  Elisabeth Miller ,  Dongmei Xu

IPC: A24B3/14 ,  A24B15/12 ,  A24B15/28

Abstract: Methods of making reconstituted tobacco include contacting a mixture including tobacco pulp with one or more fluid streams including one or more peroxides (e.g., hydrogen peroxide), recovering one or more fluids from the tobacco pulp mixture, and reusing the recovered fluids in at least one subsequent tobacco pulp contacting step. In some cases, methods provided herein can recover one or more fluids including one or more peroxides, such that the at least one subsequent tobacco pulp contacting step includes contacting tobacco pulp with a fluid including one or more peroxides.