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 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 in connection with washing of pulp 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, in which the last washing device is a washing device based on pressing of pulp, a press or a washing press, a pulp bleaching plant using ECF- bleaching, wherein chloride-containing effluents are formed, a chemical recovery 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 object and for efficiently circulating them without disturbing the main process and minimizing the emissions from the mill. A characteristic feature of the invention is that purified effluent in the amount of at least 1 m3/adt pulp is introduced into the dilution after the press or washing press, whereby the effluent is passed from the dilution into the first process stage of the bleaching.
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, treatment of brown stock generated in the cooking, a bleaching plant using ECF-bleaching, in which chloride-containing effluents are formed, an effluent purification plant for treating bleaching plant effluents and other effluents generated at the mill. At least a portion of the effluents is returned after the purification to the pulp production line as source of process water. It is essential that more than one treatment line is arranged at the effluent purification plant for the mill effluents and that effluents with different chemical compositions are purified in separate treatment lines so that the quality and amount of purified water from each treatment line is suitable for use in a stage or stages of the production process, whereto purified effluent is returned.
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 m3/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:
The present invention relates to a method of treating pulp. The method according to the invention is particularly well suited for intensifying the washing of fiber suspensions in the wood processing industry in cases where liquid recycled from later washing stages is used as washing liquid. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention part of the washing liquid to be fed to a washer is separated to form a separate flow, which is divided into a cleaner and a fouler fraction that are returned to appropriate locations of the process.