Abstract:
A method of transforming a lignocellulose material comprises the steps of: a. combining a lignocellulose material with a solution containing hydrogen peroxide and a hydrogen peroxide stabiliser to produce a mixture that is at least 3% by mass hydrogen peroxide, b. feeding said mixture to the entrance of a continuous reactor concomitant with providing an agent that facilitates the rapid decomposition of the hydrogen peroxide in the solution proximal to the entrance of the reactor so as to cause exothermic, explosive decomposition of the hydrogen peroxide to oxygen and water thus forming a mixture of gas, liquid, and solids and increasing the pressure and temperature in the reactor to at least 15 bar, and 70°C respectively without addition of heat from an external source, c. exiting the mixture of gas, water and solids formed in the reactor through an outlet with a pressure change, into a flash vessel wherein the mixture is separated into a liquid phase containing dissolved or suspended solids and a gas phase substantially rich in oxygen, and d. continuously removing from the flash vessel a gas stream substantially rich in oxygen and a separate heated liquid stream having suspended or dissolved therein chemically and physically altered components of the lignocellulose including a substantially cellulosic material with reduced recalcitrance relative to the starting lignocellulose material.
Abstract:
A process to produce pulp from vegetable, cellulose-containing fibrous material such as coniferous wood, hardwood, straw, bagasse etc., the fibrous material being treated in several stages. In a first stage the fibrous material is impregnated with a solution of sodium hydroxide, in which solution the material is soaked and partly disintegrated by mechanical working. In a second stage excess of alkaline solution is squeezed out to such extent that the content of sodium peroxide in the raw pulp amounts to at least 15 kgs per BD ton of pulp. In a third stage the pulp material is subjected to additional disintegration under supply of a solution of sodium carbonate so that a pumpable pulp suspension having a sodium carbonate content of 150-400 kgs per BD ton of pulp is obtained. In a fourth stage the pulp suspension is subjected to a cooking process at a temperature of at least 100`C during 1-4 hours and under stirring and supply of oxygen, whereupon the cooked pulp is washed.
Abstract:
A multi-function process for the separation of cellulose fibers (9) from the other constituents of lignocellulosic biomass such as found in grasses, agricultural waste, and waste paper with application in the preparation of feedstocks (1) for use in the manufacture of paper, plastics, ethanol, and other chemicals. This process minimizes waste disposal problems since it only uses only steam (6), water, and oxygen at elevated temperature in the range of 180 OC to 240 OC for 1 to 10 minutes plus a small amount of chemical reagents (23) to maintain pH in the range 8 to 13. An energy recuperation function is important to the economic viability of the process.
Abstract:
A process for delignifying and optionally bleaching nonwoody lignocellulosic substrates to produce a dietary fiber suitable for human consumption is disclosed. The process involves (a) an optional first step of treating the substrate with an aqueous alkali solution containing 1 to 20 % by weight, based on dry substrate, of a base at 20° to 100 °C to swell and remove base soluble materials from the substrate; (b) separating the substrate and optionally washing it with water; (c) uniformly wetting the substrate with an aqueous alkaline solution containing 1 to 20 wt. % of base, based on dry substrate, to form a slurry, placing the slurry in a pressure vessel which is pressured with oxygen gas to 20 to 300 psig (138 to 2070 kPa) for 5 to 180 minutes at a temperature of 50° to 150 °C to delignify the substrate, separating the delignified susbstrate from the lignin containing extract solution; (d) optionally bleaching the delignified substrate, preferably with an alkaline aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution; and (e) recovering the delignified substrate. Optionally more than one oxygenation step can be used with the substrate being separated from the oxygenation-extraction medium between oxygenation steps. Optionally, in a preferred aspect of the present invention a peroxide, preferably 0.5 to 10 weight percent hydrogen peroxide, is included in the reaction medium during one of the oxygenation steps.
Abstract:
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for improving the oxygen delignification process. The methods may include adding low doses of a borohydride stabilized in an alkaline solution to brownstock pulp. The methods may result in significant chemical savings, increased pulp brightness, increased pulp yield, and reduced kappa number.
Abstract:
A method to make pulp adapted for forming a corrugated medium, the method includes: cooking chips in a cooking vessel using a caustic carbonated pulping soda/caustic (SC) cooking liquor injected into the cooking vessel; fiberizing the chips discharged from the cooking vessel to form a pulp, and removing lignin from the pulp or oxidizing lignin in the pulp by injecting oxygen (O 2 ) into the fiberized pulp.
Abstract:
Verfahren zur Delignifizierung und Bleiche von Zellstoff, umfassend eine erste Bleichstufe mit Wasserstoffperoxid in Gegenwart eines Molybdats oder eines Wolframats in einer sauren wässrigen Mischung, eine der ersten Bleichstufe nachfolgende zweite Bleichstufe mit Wasserstoffperoxid in einer alkalischen wässrigen Mischung und eine der zweiten Bleichstufe nachfolgende dritte Bleichstufe mit Wasserstoffperoxid in Gegenwart eines Molybdats oder eines Wolframats in einer sauren wässrigen Mischung.
Abstract:
The process of the present invention relates to a substantially sulfur free process for the manufacturing of a chemical pulp from lignocellulosic material with an integrated recovery system for recovery of pulping chemicals. The subject process is carried out on in several stages involving a pretreatment stage and a cooking stage followed by oxygen delignification in a buffer alkali in order to obtain a cellulose pulp. Spent cellulose liquor comprising lignin components and spent chemical reagents is fully or partially oxidized in a gas generator wherein a stream of hot raw gas and a stream of alkaline chemicals and chemical reagents is formed for subsequent recycle and reuse in the pulp manufacturing process.
Abstract:
Cellulose pulp, preferably sulphate pulp, from softwood, characterized in that it: (i) has a limit viscosity which lies beneath 900 cm /g (ii) has a kappa number which is beneath 12, preferably beneath 10, such as beneath 8, and (iii) has a fibre size distribution according to Bauer McNett such, (a) that 60 % by weight, preferably >70 % by weight of its fibres are retained on 30 mesh, and that its shive content is 10 % by weight, preferably >15 % by weight of its fibres pass through 200 mesh, and that its shive content is substantially 0 % by weight.
Abstract:
Verfahren zur Gewinnung von Zellstoff mit niedrigem Ligningehalt, gekennzeichnet durch eine Kombination der Massnahmen, dass a) lignocellulosisches Material mit einer wässrigen Lösung, welche einen C 1-6 -Alkohol enthält und einen pH-Wert von 10 bis 14 aufweist, bei einer Temperatur unter 100°C behandelt wird, worauf die wässrige Lösung, in der Lignin, das aus der Lignocellulose abgespalten wurde, gelöst vorliegt, vom Feststoff, der ein mit Cellulose und Hemicellulose angereichertes Material darstellt, abgetrennt wird, b) Hemicellulose aus dem mit Cellulose und Hemicellulose angereichertes Material aus a) entfernt wird, c) das in b) erhaltene Material, das mit Hemicellulose abgereichert ist, in wässriger alkalischer Lösung mit einem Alkali-, Erdalkali- oder Ammoniumsulfit, insbesondere Na 2 SO 3 , und/oder mit Sauerstoff, behandelt wird, wobei Lignin in Lösung geht und Zellstoff mit niedrigem Ligningehalt erhalten wird; sowie durch das Verfahren herstellbarer Zellstoff.