Pulp treatment and process
AssigneeSappi Limited
InventorsIan Graveson, Heinzhorst Mobius, Derek Andrew Weightman
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Abstract
This invention provides a process for treating chemical woodpulp, or chemical cellulose including cotton linter, including the step of applying an electron processing technology (EPT) step to chemical woodpulp, or chemical cellulose, as the case may be, on an in-line basis to provide control of pulp viscosity or degree of polymerization (DP). The invention also provides a method of process control in treating the aforementioned woodpulp or cellulose, including the step of using radiation dose-viscosity relationship curve for applying an EPT step on an in-line basis. The in-line EPT step may, in one form of the invention, replace and hence eliminate a chemical DP reduction step.
Claims10
A process for producing chemical wood pulp including the step of wood digestion followed by a bleaching sequence including any combination of treatment by:
- oxygen (O), chlorine (C), sodium hydroxide (E), chlorine dioxide (D), hydrogen peroxide (P), ozone (Z) or sodium hypochlorite (H);
- wherein an electron processing technology (EPT) step is applied in a fixed radiation dose to the wood pulp on an in-line basis after a chemical degree of polymerization (DP) reduction stage of the bleaching sequence such that the variation of the pulp viscosity or DP of the wood pulp after the EPT step is in a range of about 0.2 to 1 cPs, and a radiation dose-viscosity relationship curve is used for determining the fixed dose of radiation which is used in the EPT step.
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