Abstract:
The invention is of particular application to the reduction of lignin content in cellulose pulps without causing deleterious degradation of the cellulose, the complex magnesium salts, such as chelates of magnesium and aliphatic alpha- and betahydroxycarboxylic acids, reducing or entirely preventing attack of oxygen on the hemicellulose and cellulose carbohydrates, without appreciably diminishing the oxidation of the lignin and its dissolution in the course of the process.
Abstract:
A process is provided for the production of cellulose of high brightness from wood by digestion with alkali and oxygen in aqueous solution under moderate oxygen pressure, limiting the amount of alkali at the start of the digestion to less than that required, and progressively adding alkali as the digestion continues, while maintaining the digestion liquor at a pH within the range from about 9.2 to about 13.
Abstract:
A PROCESS IS PROVIDED FOR TREATING CELLULOSIC METERIALS WITH ALKALI IN THE PRESENCE OF OXYGEN, AND PRTICULARLY AIR, AND IN THE PRESENCE OF COMPLEX MAGNESIUM SALTS OF AMINOPOLYCARBOXYLIC ACIDS OF ALKALI METAL SALTS THEREOF. THE INVENTION IS OF PARTICULAR APPLICATION TO THE REDUCTION OF LIGNIN CONTENT IN CELLULOSE PULPS AND THE DIGESTION OF WOOD CELLULOSE WITHOUT CAUSING DELETERIOUS DEGRADATION OF THE CELLULOSE, THE COMPLEX MAGNESIUM SALTS REDICING OR ENTIRELY PREVENTING ATTACK OF OXYGEN ON HEMICELLULOSE AND CELLULOSE CARBOHYDRATES, WITHOUT APPRECIABLY DIMINISHING THE OXIDATION OF THE LIGNIN AND ITS DISSOLUTION IN THE COURSE OF THE PROCESS.
Abstract:
A process is provided for determining the conditions needed in controllably obtaining a predetermined degree of delignification and therefore a predetermined Kappa number in the manufacture of sulfate pulp. A sample is taken of the alkaline pulping liquor at an early stage in the pulping of wood of the type to be pulped, the sample is titrated with an acid to the end point at which the conductivity of the sample has decreased to a relatively constant value, the NaOH (g/l) concentration is determined, and from this NaOH concentration at the desired Kappa value in the finished sulfate pulp the ''''H'''' factor is determined, which prescribed the pulping time and temperature relationship needed to obtain pulp of this Kappa value. Then the pulping time and cooking temperature are controlled during the pulping in accordance with such ''''M'''' factor.
Abstract:
Cellulosic materials from which metal ions have been removed by acids or complexing agents is delignified with alkali in the presence of oxygen, and particularly air, and in the presence of magnesium compounds such as, for instance, chelates of magnesium and aliphatic alpha- and beta-hydroxycarboxylic acids. The invention is of particular application to the reduction of lignin content in cellulose pulps without causing deleterious degradation of the cellulose, the magnesium compounds reducing or entirely preventing attack of oxygen on the hemicellulose and cellulose carbohydrates, without appreciably diminishing the oxidation of the lignin and its dissolution in the course of the process. The process is also useful to obtain a controlled dissolution of the hemicellulose.