Abstract:
A cooking method and a digester system wherein partly digested cellulosic fiber source is compressed during cooking to provide high molecular weight lignin and pulp.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an outlet system for transporting comminuted lignocellulosic material from a vessel, said bottom portion (1) having an upper circumference (15) that is essentially circular and a lower circumference (16) comprising at least two essentially straight portions (16a, 16c) opposite each other. The invention also relates to a vessel having such an outlet system.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an improved method for generating clean steam in a digester plant of a chemical pulp mill. By feeding a steam-to-steam converter (SSC) with venting steam from a black liquor flash tank (FT) as well as venting steam from chip steaming (SV) could the volume of clean steam produced be increased by over 40-50%, and to such an extent that the volume of clean steam covers the needs for preheating of chips in the digester system also in severe operational conditions. The total consumption of clean steam from the steam net of the mill may be reduced and used for other purposes such as electricity production, which meets the requirements for converting the pulp mill to an environmental friendly pulp mill.
Abstract:
A bleached softwood kraft pulp fiber with high α-cellulose content and a low CED viscosity is provided, A surfactant treated fiber useful in the production of chemical derivatives is also described. Methods for making the kraft pulp fiber and products made from it are also described.
Abstract:
A method of digesting lignocellulosic material includes the steps of providing the lignocellulosic material and a caustic composition having a pH of at least about 10. The caustic composition includes water, an alkaline- or alkaline earth-metal hydroxide, and up to about 1 percent by weight based on a total weight of the composition of a branched digestion additive. The branched digestion additive has the structure: wherein A is at least one alkyleneoxy group and each alkyleneoxy group has from 2 to 4 carbon atoms, n is 0 or 1, B is a branched aliphatic hydrocarbon group having from 8 to 15 carbon atoms, X is H or B-0-(A)m, and each m is independently an average value from 3 to 30, and wherein the caustic composition has a Draves Wetting Time of less than 100 seconds as determined using ASTM D2281.
Abstract:
A method of producing chemical cellulose pulp from sawdust utilizing a static down-flow retention vessel comprising the steps of continuously pressurizing a flow of sawdust using a progressive cavity pump to produce a pressurized sawdust feed for a treatment vessel, passing the pressurized sawdust feed at super-atmospheric pressure downwardly in the treatment vessel, adding treatment white black liquor to the treatment vessel, and treating the pressurized sawdust feed in the treatment vessel with treatment white black liquor to form a treated sawdust, and discharging treated sawdust from the treatment vessel.
Abstract:
A bleached softwood kraft pulp fiber with high α-cellulose content and a low CED viscosity is provided, A surfactant treated fiber useful in the production of chemical derivatives is also described. Methods for making the kraft pulp fiber and products made from it are also described.
Abstract:
A reactor vessel system including: a first reactor vessel having a hydrolysate and liquid extraction screen, a first region above the extraction screen that is maintained at conditions promoting a hydrolysis reaction in the cellulosic material, a second region below the extraction screen in which the hydrolysis is substantially suppressed and a wash liquid inlet below the extraction screen providing wash liquid at a temperature below a hydrolysis temperature; a transport pipe having an inlet coupled to the first reactor vessel and an outlet coupled to a second reactor vessel, and the second reactor vessel includes a liquid discharge that extracts a portion of liquid from the second reactor vessel and directs the portion of liquid to the first reactor vessel or to the transport pipe.
Abstract:
A continuous cooking process making use of a digester, which includes therein, from a top toward a bottom of the digester, a top zone, an upper cooking zone, a lower cooking zone and a cooking/washing zone and also includes strainers provided at the bottom of the respective zones and wherein a cooking black liquor extracted from at least one of the strainers is discharged to outside a digestion system, a process for cooking a lignocellulose characterized by feeding, upstream of the top of the digester, a first cooking liquor containing an alkaline cooking liquor having a specified composition, feeding a second cooking liquor of an alkaline cooking liquor made mainly of sodium hydroxide to the upper cooking zone, and feeding a third cooking liquor of an alkaline cooking liquor similar to the second cooking liquor to the cooking/washing zone.
Abstract:
A method for treating a cellulosic material comprising extracting the cellulosic material with an extractant to selectively extract hemicellulose therein and separating the extracted hemicellulose to form a cellulosic product comprising less hemicellulose than the cellulosic material. The extractant comprises an amine oxide and a non-solvent. The cellulosic product retains the cellulosic fiber morphology.