Solvent recovery in pulp bleaching with ozone
AssigneeMacMillan Bloedel Limited
InventorsThomas H. Murphy, Robert G. Norris
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Abstract
A process for bleaching pulp by impregnating the pulp with an aqueous organic solvent medium and then bleaching in an ozone stage (Z stage) to form a bleached pulp characterized in that organic solvent in the organic solvent medium accompanying the pulp through the ozone stage is neutralized and stripped from the bleached pulp leaving the ozone stage and the separated organic solvent is recovered for reuse.
Claims10
A process for bleaching pulp in an aqueous organic solvent and recovering solvent comprising impregnating said pulp with an aqueous organic solvent medium in an impregnation stage to form an impregnated pulp, bleaching said impregnated pulp with ozone in an ozone bleaching stage at a pH of less than 6 to form a bleached pulp, adding caustic to said bleached pulp in said aqueous medium containing said solvent in a neutralization stage so that the pH of said bleached pulp is raised to at least neutralize said bleached pulp and then feeding said bleached pulp to a stripping vessel, heating said bleached pulp in said aqueous medium in said stripping vessel to evaporate said solvent and separate said solvent from said medium and said pulp to provide a separated organic solvent liquor and said pulp in a medium substantially free of said organic solvent.
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