Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of treating liquid flows at a chemical pulp mill comprising at least an alkaline cooking process utilizing cooking liquor for producing pulp, brown stock treatment with essentially closed liquid cycles, a pulp bleaching plant using ECF-bleaching wherein chloride- containing effluents are generated, a chemical recovery plant comprising a causticizing plant and chemical recovery boiler plant, and effluent purification. A characteristic feature of the method is that chloride-containing effluents of the bleaching plant are introduced to the effluent purification where they are treated for decreasing the organic matter content thereof, at least 20 % of the purified effluent is led back to a pulp mill process, purified effluent is used in at least one stage of causticizing as raw water source so that the chloride-containing liquid formed in the process stage is a weak white liquor fraction that is led to the recovery boiler plant as a smelt dissolving liquid component and therefrom further via regeneration of cooking liquor, pulp cooking and pulp washing as a waste liquor component to evaporation, wherefrom the concentrated waste liquor is led for treatment into a recovery boiler process, wherein a separation process for chlorides is arranged in order to control the chloride-level of the liquor cycle.
Abstract:
The invention relates to an apparatus for mixing a gaseous or liquid substance into fiber suspension. The apparatus comprises a tubular body (12), which defines a space that forms a flow channel for the suspension, in which body an inlet (14) and an outlet (16) for the suspension are arranged so that the suspension flows through the flow channel mainly in the axial direction. Further the apparatus comprises a feed member (22) that extends into the flow channel transversely against the flow direction of the suspension and has a cylindrical wall (24) provided with openings (26) for leading the substance from the feed member into the flow channel. At least one protrusion (28) is arranged on the inner surface of the tubular body in the region the feed member. A throttling member (32) is arranged in the flow channel downstream of the feed member in the flow direction of the suspension, and a mixing chamber (36) is formed in the flow channel between the feed member and the throttling member.
Abstract:
A method to cook thin chips in a continuous digester vessel including: introducing thin chips having a thickness of no more than 6mm, into a chip bin; adding white (cooking) liquor to the chip bin or to a chip transport passage extending from the chip bin to an upper inlet of the continuous digester vessel; injecting medium pressure steam or another heated fluid to an upper region of the digester vessel to elevate a cooking temperature of the chips in the vessel to at least 130 degrees Celsius; cooking the chips in the vessel as the chips flow downward through the vessel without substantial extraction or introduction of liquor in the cooking section of the vessel; injecting wash liquid to a lower region of the vessel; extracting at least wash liquid through a wash liquid extraction screen in the lower region of the vessel and above the injection of the wash liquid, and discharging the cooked thin chips from the lower region of the vessel.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for treating liquid flows at a chemical pulp mill comprising at least an alkaline cooking process for producing pulp, brown stock treatment with essentially closed liquid cycles, a pulp bleaching plant using ECF-bleaching, a chemical recovery plant comprising a chemical recovery boiler, and effluent purification. Chloride-containing bleaching plant effluents are led to the effluent purification, where they are treated in order to decrease the organic matter content thereof. At least 20 % of the purified effluent is returned to a pulp mill process and purified effluent is used in a last washing stage included in brown stock treatment. In the brown stock treatment the liquid flow is passed counter-currently to evaporation, wherefrom it is led for treatment to a recovery boiler process, wherein a separation process for chlorides is arranged for controlling the chloride level of the liquor cycle.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of and apparatus for decreasing the ozone content of gas in connection with an ozone bleaching process for pulp in a chemical pulp mill plant provided with or connected to an ECF-bleaching plant for pulp and provided with at least production of a mixture of ozone and carrier gas, ozone bleaching equipment, discharge line for mixture of residual ozone and carrier gas from the ozone bleaching equipment and emergency discharge line for ozone-containing gas bypassing the ozone bleaching equipment and after these a connected first gas scrubber for treating the ozone-containing gas. An essential feature of the invention is that the last treatment stage for ozone-containing gas for removing ozone is carried out in the second gas scrubber, wherein both residual gas from ECF bleaching and residual gas of the ozone stage are treated with reductants. Thereby the elimination of residual ozone can be ensured, especially in disturbance situations.
Abstract:
The invention relates to a method of treating liquid flows at a chemical pulp mill comprising at least an alkaline cooking process utilizing cooking liquor for producing pulp, brown stock treatment with essentially closed liquid cycles, a pulp bleaching plant using ECF-bleaching wherein chloride- containing effluents are generated, a chemical recovery plant comprising a causticizing plant and chemical recovery boiler plant, and effluent purification. A characteristic feature of the method is that chloride-containing effluents of the bleaching plant are introduced to the effluent purification where they are treated for decreasing the organic matter content thereof, at least 20 % of the purified effluent is led back to a pulp mill process, purified effluent is used in at least one stage of causticizing as raw water source so that the chloride-containing liquid formed in the process stage is a weak white liquor fraction that is led to the recovery boiler plant as a smelt dissolving liquid component and therefrom further via regeneration of cooking liquor, pulp cooking and pulp washing as a waste liquor component to evaporation, wherefrom the concentrated waste liquor is led for treatment into a recovery boiler process, wherein a separation process for chlorides is arranged in order to control the chloride-level of the liquor cycle.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for treating pulp at a chemical pulping plant comprising at least a pulp bleaching plant using elementary chlorine free bleaching and having at least one chlorine dioxide stage, and wherein chloride-containing effluents are formed, a chemical recovery plant comprising a black liquor evaporation plant and a chemical recovery boiler plant, and effluent purification. An object of the present invention is to offer a method for utilizing liquid flows generated at a chemical pulp mill in an advantageous objet and for efficiently circulating them and minimizing the emissions from the mill. A characteristic feature of the method is that chloride-containing bleaching plant effluents are led to effluent purification, where they are treated in order to decrease the organic matter content thereof, that purified effluent is led back to a chemical pulp mill process, so that at least 20 % of the liquid used for brown stock washing is purified effluent and that condensates originating from the evaporation plant are used in the amount of at least 1 m 3 /adt pulp as washing or dilution water of the bleaching for reducing the total amount of effluent, and that a separation process for chlorides is arranged at the chemical recovery boiler plant for decreasing the chloride level of the chemical cycle.
Abstract:
A method for burning chlorine-containing liquors in a chemical recovery boiler at a pulp mill, wherein the recovery boiler includes spent liquor sprayers for feeding spent liquor and a number of combustion air levels including: increasing a combustion temperature in the recovery boiler in a burning zone where a chlorine-containing liquor or a chlorine-containing effluent is burned; while burning the liquor or effluent, volatilizing the chlorine in the liquor or effluent to produce chloride-containing salts in flue gases in the boiler, and removing the chloride-containing salts from the flue gases.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to an arrangement and a method for feeding chemical into a fiber suspension in a fiber suspension transfer line. The arrangement comprises in the flow direction of the suspension a pump (102), a closing valve (110), a static mixing apparatus (106) whereto a chemical feed line (104) is connected, and a regulation valve (108). A conduit (120) is connected to the chemical feed line for adding a medium into the chemical flow if needed for maintaining an adequate flow into the mixer (106).
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method of treating and utilizing liquid flows at a chemical pulp mill. The method comprises at least the following stages: a) chemical pulp is produced in an alkaline cooking process, b) the brown stock generated in the cooking is treated, said treatment comprising washing of the stock and preferably oxygen delignification and subsequent washing of the stock, c) a bleaching process for the brown stock, the bleaching sequence comprising at least one stage using chlorine dioxide and additionally at least one oxidizing bleaching stage and having at least two washing stages for treating the stock with liquids and for producing filtrates, and d) filtrates from stage c) are purified at an effluent treatment plant of the chemical pulp mill, which comprises at least biological treatment, for obtaining purified effluent. The method further comprises a stage e), where the purified effluent with a color of 200 mg/l (R color) or more and a COD value of over 150 mg/l is used as pulp treatment liquid in stage c).