Apparatuses, methods and systems for yield increase in a kraft cooking plant

Abstract

The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR YIELD INCREASE IN A KRAFT COOKING PLANT present synergies for at least two parallel cooking plants, e.g., one producing dissolving pulp in a prehydrolysis kraft process, and the other producing kraft pulp by kraft pulping process, which may facilitate increased cooking yield in the kraft cooking plant producing kraft pulp by recovering the hemicelluloses solubilized in the acidic hydrolysate of the prehydrolysis kraft process. In some implementations, there may be no cold caustic extraction step on the dissolving pulp line as the target pulp purity can be achieved by performing just a prehydrolysis step, with reutilization of an acidic hydrolysate stream in a kraft pulp line.

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