Paper making and fiber liberation – Apparatus – Digester
Patent
1989-09-28
1991-06-04
Chin, Peter
Paper making and fiber liberation
Apparatus
Digester
162243, 162248, 162249, 162251, D21C 700
Patent
active
050211277
ABSTRACT:
Extended delignification of kraft pulp in a pressure diffuser allows a pulp mill with a digester (e.g. continuous digester) to increase its production capacity without building a new line, or to decrease its demand in its bleach plant, or to increase the strength of softwood pulp it produces. Comminuted cellulosic fibrous material is kraft cooked to produce kraft pulp having a blow temperature over about 300.degree. F. The pulp is diffusion treated in the first stage of a pressure diffuser to replace the water around the pulp with delignifying liquor. The liquor has a dissolved lignin concentration of less than 12% (optimally less than about 4%), has an effective alkali concentration of at least 2 gm/l (preferably 8-55 gm/l), and a temperature of at least about 300.degree. F. Treating the pulp with the delignifying liquor significantly reduces the K-number (e.g. on the order of about 5). After extended delignification, the pulp is washed in subsequent stages of the pressure diffuser. The components of the delignifying area of the pressure diffuser are of stainless steel to avoid corrosion from the alkaline liquor.
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Chin Peter
Kamyr Inc.
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