System for treatment of a biomass material

    公开(公告)号:US12098505B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-24

    申请号:US17050013

    申请日:2019-03-22

    申请人: VALMET AB

    摘要: A system for treatment of a biomass material and a method for transporting biomass material, said system comprising: —a first vessel (3) in which said biomass material is treated at a first pressure;—a second vessel (5) in which said biomass material is collected at a second pressure which is lower than the first pressure; and—a transporting pipe (7) connecting an outlet (9) of the first vessel (3) with an inlet (11) of the second vessel (5) for transporting the biomass material from the first vessel to the second vessel, wherein said transporting pipe (7) comprises at least one restriction (13) for control of the flow in the transporting pipe and hereby providing a pressure drop to the transported biomass material, wherein at least one of said at least one restriction (13) is provided somewhere in the second half of the length of the transporting pipe (7) starting from the first vessel (3) and ending at the second vessel (5).

    Raw-material feeding device
    5.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12065779B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-20

    申请号:US17386601

    申请日:2021-07-28

    摘要: A raw-material feeding device includes: a storage section that includes a bottom section and a side wall standing from the bottom section and that stores, in a storage space surrounded by the bottom section and the side wall, small pieces of raw material constituted by a material containing fibers; a stirring section that is provided in the bottom section at a position facing the storage space, that includes a blade which rotates about a rotational axis extending in a direction in which the side wall stands, and that stirs the raw material in the storage space by rotating the blade; a first discharging section that is provided in the side wall so as to communicate with the storage space, that includes a first tubular body rotating about a first axis intersecting the rotational axis, and that discharges, upon rotation of the first tubular body, the raw material in the storage space to a processing section; and a second discharging section that is provided in the side wall at a position different from a position at which the first tubular body is provided so as to communicate with the storage space, that includes a second tubular body rotating about a second axis intersecting the rotational axis, and that discharges, upon rotation the second tubular body, the raw material in the storage space to the processing section.

    DISPERSION DEVICE AND ACCUMULATION DEVICE
    6.
    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20240271363A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-15

    申请号:US18438546

    申请日:2024-02-12

    摘要: There is provided a dispersion device including: a dispersion section that has a chamber and that stirs and disperses a material containing fibers in the chamber; and a supply pipe coupled to the chamber and supplying the material to the chamber together with air, in which the supply pipe has a first portion located on a chamber side and extending in a first direction, a second portion extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a third portion coupling the first portion and the second portion, and in at least one of the first portion, the second portion, and the third portion, a cross-sectional shape of an internal flow path is an elongated shape having a short axis and a long axis.

    Processes and systems for producing nanocellulose from old corrugated containers

    公开(公告)号:US12018432B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-06-25

    申请号:US16996414

    申请日:2020-08-18

    摘要: In some variations, OCC is screened, cleaned, deinked, and mechanically refined to generate cellulose nanofibrils. The OCC may be subjected to further chemical, physical, or thermal processing, prior to mechanical refining. For example, the OCC may be subjected to hot-water extraction, or fractionation with an acid catalyst, a solvent for lignin, and water. In certain embodiments to produce cellulose nanocrystals, OCC is exposed to AVAP® digestor conditions. The resulting pulp is optionally bleached and is mechanically refined to generate cellulose nanocrystals. In certain embodiments to produce cellulose nanofibrils, OCC is exposed to GreenBox+® digestor conditions. The resulting pulp is mechanically refined to generate cellulose nanofibrils. The site of a system to convert OCC to nanocellulose may be co-located with an existing OCC processing site. The nanocellulose line may be a bolt-on retrofit system to existing infrastructure. In other embodiments, a dedicated plant for converting OCC to nanocellulose is used.

    Method for controlling thermoplasticity and toughness of redox-modified plant fiber and use thereof

    公开(公告)号:US11767403B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-09-26

    申请号:US16722297

    申请日:2019-12-20

    IPC分类号: C08J3/00 C08J3/18 D21B1/02

    摘要: The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling thermoplasticity and toughness of a redox-modified plant fiber, comprising following steps: (1) pretreating a plant fiber; (2) obtaining an oxidation-modified plant fiber by adding an oxidant solution, then filtering, and washing; and obtaining the redox-modified plant fiber by adding a reductant solution, then filtering, and washing; and (3) fully mixing a plasticizer with the redox-modified plant fiber; the plasticizer being a hydroxyl plasticizer, an ionic liquid plasticizer, a deep eutectic solvent, an ester plasticizer, an amine plasticizer, a glycidyl plasticizer, or an inorganic salt plasticizer. The method according to the present disclosure can improve the toughness of the redox-modified plant fiber material, reduce the processing temperature of the plant fiber material, and broaden the processing window of the plant fiber material.

    HIGH YIELD CHEMICAL PULPING AND BLEACHING PROCESS

    公开(公告)号:US20230265609A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-24

    申请号:US18098490

    申请日:2023-01-18

    摘要: A method of producing high yield chemical cellulosic pulp includes: (a) chemically pulping wood chips to separate lignin and liberate cellulosic fibers from the wood chips to generate a cellulosic pulp; (b) washing and screening the pulp of step (a); (c) pre-treating the washed pulp with oxygen; (d) optionally washing the treated pulp of step (c); (e) bleaching the pre-treated pulp in an extended duration oxidative bleaching stage; (f) optionally washing the bleached pulp of step (e); and (g) optionally further oxidatively or reductively bleaching the bleached pulp in a shorter duration bleaching stage, wherein the bleached pulp is produced at a yield of greater than 60% based on the weight of the pulped wood chips (dry basis).