Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
162017000 | Continuous chemical treatment or continuous charging or discharging | 29 |
20080210392 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING CELLULOSE PULP IN A CONTINUOUS DIGESTER IN AN ENERGY-EFFICIENT MANNER - The method is for producing cellulose pulp in a continuous digestion system in an energy-efficient manner. Cellulose chips are fed continuously with a transfer liquid in a transfer line to a top separator arranged at the top of a digester, for the separation of free liquid from the cellulose chips. The top separator has a withdrawal space in which free liquid collects. At least a fraction of the free liquid that has separated, with a temperature T | 09-04-2008 |
20080277081 | Method and Arrangement For Impregnation of Chips - A method and an arrangement for the impregnation of untreated chips during the manufacture of chemical pulp. The untreated chips are fed without preceding steam treatment into an impregnation vessel ( | 11-13-2008 |
20090020244 | IMPREGNATION VESSEL WITH CONVERGENCE SIDE RELIEF AND METHOD FOR HEAT INJECTION AT CONVERGENCE - An impregnation vessel including: a vessel container including an upper inlet to receive cellulosic material; a lower discharge port to discharge the cellulosic material from a discharge section of the vessel container; a convergence section internal to the vessel through which passes a flow of the cellulosic material in the vessel; a cavity between an internal wall of the vessel and the convergence section, wherein the cavity has a lower opening to the cellulosic material in the vessel and an upper section shielded from the flow of cellulosic material in the vessel, and an input port in the vessel and opening to the cavity, wherein the input port is connectable to a source of hot liquid to be added to the cellulosic material in the vessel. | 01-22-2009 |
20090071615 | CONTINUOUS DIGESTER WITH FLUID CIRCULATION - The arrangement concerns an improved design for at least one of the cooling, dilution and washing at the bottom of a continuous digester for the production of cellulose pulp. By arranging at least one extra strainer section above the lowermost strainer section, with the addition of washing fluid or dilution fluid between the extra strainer section and the lowermost strainer section, more washing fluid can be added at the bottom of the digester without counteracting the flow of the column of chips. This provides space for the increase of production, for improvement of the flow of the column of chips, or for combinations of these effects while retaining good cooling, washing and dilution at the bottom of the digester. | 03-19-2009 |
20090107642 | METHOD FOR OXYGEN DELIGNIFICATION OF CELLULOSE PULP AT HIGH PRESSURE IN SEVERAL STEPS - The method is for the improved oxygen delignification of cellulose pulp with a medium consistency of 8-16%. The fraction of dissolved oxygen can be maintained at a high level throughout the process by the use of high pressure, greater than 15.0 bar, and by repeated agitative mixing while maintaining the high pressure, such that as large a fraction as just over 20% of the total oxygen added is dissolved in the fluid phase, and such that the amount of oxygen in the fluid phase is maintained at a high level throughout the complete high pressure section. By the establishment of retention times between the remixing operations with successively increasing retention times, while retaining a high pressure, an optimal adaptation of the remixing is obtained at the time at which a certain fraction of the oxygen dissolved in the fluid phase has been consumed. | 04-30-2009 |
20100132897 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR CONTINUOUS COOKING - The continuous digester system has an inlet defined therein for the feed of a chips suspension and an outlet for the output of a cooked suspension of pulp. The suspension or chips is fed in to the inlet through a line at the beginning of the cook, where the chips suspension has a volume of starting cooking fluid that establishes a fluid/wood ratio that is greater than 3.5. A final cooking fluid is present during the cook for the major part of the cock and is withdrawn through a withdrawal strainer only during the final 15 minutes of the cook. The final cooking fluid ensures a fluid/wood ratio that is greater than 3.5 in association with the withdrawal. The withdrawn final cooking fluid during the final 15 minutes of the cook consists of spent black liquor that maintains a residual alkali level that lies under 15 g/l. | 06-03-2010 |
20100206499 | Methods for Producing Biomass-Based Fuel With Pulp Processing Equipment - A method for mitigating the costs of establishing a biomass-based pellet manufacturing plant includes identifying an existing pulp processing plant, obtaining permission to access and convert the pulp processing plant, and converting the pulp processing plant for manufacture of biomass-based pellets. Converting the pulp processing plant may include installing a pellet mill in the pulp processing plant, re-routing output from a pulp digester, such that the output enters the pellet mill, and bypassing unnecessary equipment. Biomass-based pellets may be manufactured in the converted pulp processing plant by liberating lignin from biomass-based feedstock via pulp digester and pelletizing the biomass-based feedstock and the liberated lignin to form the biomass-based pellets. | 08-19-2010 |
20100263813 | GREEN LIQUOR PRETREATMENT OF LIGNOCELLULOSIC MATERIAL - A continuous process for producing a chemical grade pulp, the process comprising the steps of: (a) steaming lignocellulosic material for a first period of time between 1 and 60 minutes; (b) after steaming, impregnating the steamed lignocellulosic material in an impregnation vessel with green liquor for a second period of time up to 5 minutes and at a temperature between 110° C. and 150° C.; and (c) after impregnation, continuously cooking the lignocellulosic material in a digester to produce a chemical grade pulp. | 10-21-2010 |
20100326610 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTINUOUSLY TREATING BIOMASS - A continuous biomass pretreatment system and method is provided. The system comprises a pipe reactor having an input end, an output end, an interior and an exterior. The pipe reactor does not have a mixing component that passes from the interior to the exterior and rotates with respect to the pipe. The system further comprises a pump in communication with the input end of the pipe reactor, a valve in communication with the output end of the pipe reactor, and a flash vessel having an input opening in communication with the output of the valve. | 12-30-2010 |
20110186250 | Continuous Digestion of Chip Blends Containing a Western Red Cedar Chip Furnish - A process is provided for delignifying lignocellulosic material, including feeding a lignocellulosic blend comprising a Western Red Cedar (WRC) chip furnish and a second lignocellulosic material into an aqueous alkaline pulping solution at the feed end of a digester to produce a lignocellulosic mass. The second lignocellulosic material is provided in a proportion that increases the density of the mass to enable the mass to move through the digester while minimizing production effects associated with low density WRC chips. The mass moves through the digester to produce a pulp that may be bleached. | 08-04-2011 |
20120125548 | CONTINUOUSLY FED BIOMASS PRETREATMENT PROCESS FOR A PACKED BED REACTOR - Biomass pretreatment using anhydrous ammonia is effective in a static reactor vessel when the ammonia can penetrate through the biomass particles or pieces in vapor state, and when biomass is continuously fed and moved through the reactor. To achieve this condition, total system moisture content is kept below 40 weight % based on total mass in the system. The pretreated biomass product is effectively saccharified to produce fermentable sugars for biocatalyst production of a product. | 05-24-2012 |
20120216971 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR ADDING TREATMENT LIQUORS TO CELLULOSE RAW MATERIAL IN A CONTINUOUS PROCESS USING DOWN FLOW VESSELS - The method and arrangement is for adding treatment liquor to comminuted cellulose material, preferably wood chips, during the manufacture of chemical pulp in a continuous process. The process uses a down-flow vessel where chips are descending down the vessel in a plug-flow and where treated chips are continuously fed out at the bottom of the vessel. By arranging more than two parallel pipes offset from the center of the vessel a better distribution of treatment liquor is obtained. Any disturbance of the chip plug flow descending down the vessel is reduced to a minimum. | 08-30-2012 |
20120261084 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE PUMPED FEED OF CHIPS TO A CONTINUOUS DIGESTER - The system and method is for the pumping of finely divided cellulose material to a continuous digester. The system has a concentric arrangement of pipes. A fluid (Liq) is added to a chamber formed between the pipes to establish a cylindrical film of fluid around a rod-shaped flow of cellulose material before the inlet to the pump. It is possible in this way to reduce the pressure drop in the lines, reduce wear in the pump, and ensure a maximal pressure build up in the pump. | 10-18-2012 |
20130240167 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND WITHDRAWAL SCREEN SECTION FOR IMPREGNATING CHIPS - The method, system and a withdrawal screen section are for the impregnation of chips during the manufacture of chemical pulp. Chips are both steamed and impregnated in a low pressure impregnation vessel, using pressurized hot spent cooking liquor BL as the main part of the impregnation liquid. The hot spent cooking liquor produces most of the steam BL | 09-19-2013 |
20140053993 | System and Method for Reclaiming Rejects in Sulfite Pulping - Systems and methods are provided for refining and reclaiming rejects in a sulfite pulping process. Wood chips and sulfite cooking liquor are provided to a digester for delignification. The slurry obtained from the digester is screened to obtain a reject portion containing sulfite rejects. The sulfite rejects are disintegrated in a refiner, such that the rejects are refined to a freeness suitable for digestion in a subsequent re-cooking step. Refined rejects are then returned to the digester for re-cooking with wood chips. | 02-27-2014 |
162019000 | Plural diverse stage treatment | 14 |
20080202712 | Method and Device for the Continuous Cooking of Pulp - The continuous digester system has an inlet defined therein for the feed of a chips suspension and an outlet for the output of a cooked suspension of pulp. The suspension or chips is fed in to the inlet through a line at the beginning of the cook, where the chips suspension has a volume of starting cooking fluid that establishes a fluid/wood ratio that is greater than 3.5. A final cooking fluid is present during the cook for the major part of the cook and is withdrawn through a withdrawal strainer only during the final 15 minutes of the cook. The final cooking fluid ensures a fluid/wood ratio that is greater than 3.5 in association with the withdrawal The withdrawn final cooking fluid during the final 15 minutes of the cook consists of spent black liquor that maintains a residual alkali level that lies under 15 g/l. | 08-28-2008 |
20080236771 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING A PROCESSOR INCLUDING A DIGESTER UTILIZING TIME-BASED ASSESSMENTS - A system for controlling a processor having at least one sampling port connected to a stage of the processor in order to sample a reactant product from the processor. The system includes a controller configured to control a processing parameter of the processor based on measurements of at least one property of the reactant product such that changes to the processing parameter maintain a target value for the at least one property of the reactant product. The system further includes a dead time compensator. The dead time compensator is configured, based upon a prescribed dead time related to a time before at least one effect of at least one change to the processing parameter is fully realized, to evaluate the reactant product to determine if the effect has been realized at a plurality of sequential times offset from the dead time. | 10-02-2008 |
20080295981 | SINGLE VESSEL REACTOR SYSTEM FOR HYDROLYSIS AND DIGESTION OF WOOD CHIPS WITH CHEMICAL ENHANCED WASH METHOD - A reaction vessel including: a material input receiving cellulosic material and a material discharge for the cellulosic material, wherein the cellulosic material flows through the reaction vessel from the material input to the material discharge; a hydrolysate and liquid extraction screen; a hydrolysis zone between the material input and the hydrolysate and liquid extraction screen; a wash zone between the hydrolysate and liquid extraction screen and a wash liquid extraction screen; a wash liquid inlet port for introducing a wash liquid into the wash zone, wherein at least a portion of the wash liquid entering the wash liquid inlet port flows through the wash zone and is extracted by the hydrolysate and liquid extraction screen; a cooking zone between the wash zone and the material discharge and a cooking liquor extraction screen at or below the cooking zone and above the material discharge. | 12-04-2008 |
20080302492 | TWO VESSEL REACTOR SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYDROLYSIS AND DIGESTION OF WOOD CHIPS WITH CHEMICAL ENHANCED WASH METHOD - A reactor vessel system including: a first reactor vessel having a hydrolysate and liquid extraction screen, a first region above the extraction screen that is maintained at conditions promoting a hydrolysis reaction in the cellulosic material, a second region below the extraction screen in which the hydrolysis is substantially suppressed and a wash liquid inlet below the extraction screen providing wash liquid at a temperature below a hydrolysis temperature; a transport pipe having an inlet coupled to the first reactor vessel and an outlet coupled to a second reactor vessel, and the second reactor vessel includes a liquid discharge that extracts a portion of liquid from the second reactor vessel and directs the portion of liquid to the first reactor vessel or to the transport pipe. | 12-11-2008 |
20100071861 | METHOD FOR AN ENERGY EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE PULP IN A CONTINUOUS DIGESTER - The method is for the production of cellulose pulp in a continuous digester system. Chips are impregnated in an impregnation vessel. The chips are then fed to a subsequent digester vessel in a transfer fluid. A black liquor withdrawal is taken from the digester, which withdrawal is led to the bottom to heat the chips before the chips are fed out from the impregnation vessel. A transfer fluid is withdrawn from the digester and led to the impregnation vessel to act as an impregnation fluid. At least a portion of the transfer fluid that was withdrawn from the top of the digester passes an indirect heat exchanger, in which the transfer fluid withdrawn from the top of the digester at a temperature of at least 125° C. exchanges heat indirectly with a first fluid for the production of steam from the first fluid. | 03-25-2010 |
20110067828 | CONTINUOUS DIGESTER SYSTEM - In a continuous digester system the digester system is greatly simplified by using a single vertical atmospheric vessel, replacing the conventional chip bin, steaming vessel, chip chute, high pressure pumping or sluice feeders, impregnation vessels and top separator. Chips are simply fed to the top of the atmospheric vessel, and a chip level is established in the vessel. Treatment liquids are added to the vessel such that a total liquid volume (Z | 03-24-2011 |
20110186251 | CONTINUOUS TUBE REACTOR - A system and method for digesting cellulosic material to extract fermentable sugars, lignin, and pulp is disclosed. One embodiment comprises a continuous digester comprising a cellulosic material feed section including a pre-steam and impregnation zone, a sugar extraction zone, a lignin extraction zone and a cooking zone, the continuous digester to impregnate the cellulosic material with a mild acid solution and continuously digest the cellulosic material to extract fermentable sugars, lignin, and pulp. Another embodiment comprises a method for receiving cellulosic material in a continuous digester, removing air from the cellulosic material, impregnating the cellulosic material with a mild acid, hydrolyzing hemicellulose in the cellulosic material to fermentable sugars, extracting the fermentable sugars from the cellulosic material, cooking the cellulosic material to extract lignin from the cellulosic material, washing the cellulosic material in a hot alcohol wash, a hot water wash, and a cold water wash, and discharging pulp. | 08-04-2011 |
20120067533 | COOKING PROCESS OF LIGNOCELLULOSE MATERIAL - In a cooking process of a lignocellulose material, pulp yield can be improved at the same Kappa number and an effective alkali addition rate can be reduced at the same Kappa number. | 03-22-2012 |
20120234511 | VAPOR PHASE HYDROLYSIS VESSEL AND METHODS RELATED THERETO - A prehydrolysis of wood chips or other lignocellulosic material in a vessel having a gaseous portion and a liquid portion. The vessel includes at least one stress relieving piece that inhibits overcompression of the lignocellulosic material. The vessel operates in a continuous process. A slurry of lignocellulosic material and liquid is removed from the bottom of the vessel. | 09-20-2012 |
20130098569 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR EFFICIENT PRODUCTION OF DISSOLVING PULP IN A KRAFT MILL PRODUCING PAPER GRADE PULP WITH A CONTINUOUS TYPE DIGESTER - A method and system for pulp manufacturing used in connection with a kraft process includes a vertical pressure vessel operated in batch mode, a single-vessel or multi-vessel continuous digester, and other equipment for further processing brown stock, such as for washing, oxygen delignification, bleaching, and drying. A feeder and conveyance system may include a high pressure feeder or direct pump system, and selectively provides fiber-containing material to the continuous digester when making lower grade pulp product and to the vertical pressure vessel when making higher grade pulp such as dissolving pulp. The vertical pressure vessel is used for pre-hydrolysis and neutralization, after which the resulting pulp is fed to the continuous digester for cooking. White liquor and black liquor from the same mill may be used for the neutralization fluids. The same continuous digester is selectively used for cooking in connection with making pulp products of different grades or quality. | 04-25-2013 |
20140014283 | SINGLE-STEP METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF NANO PULP BY ACCELERATION AND DISINTEGRATION OF RAW MATERIAL - The invention relates to methods of manufacturing nano pulp, wherein cellulose containing raw material is accelerated in a continuous gas and/or liquid flow, whereby the material is disintegrated and nano pulp is produced. The gas and/or liquid flow may be created by reduction of an elevated pressure in a reactor holding the cellulose containing raw material. The invention also relates to the nano pulp produced. | 01-16-2014 |
20140299283 | KRAFT COOKING METHOD USING POLYSULFIDE COOKING LIQUOR - The method is for the preparation of kraft pulp with increased pulping yield from lignin-containing cellulosic material using polysulfide cooking liquor. In order to increase carbohydrate stabilization and hence the yield from a kraft cooking process a first impregnation stage is using polysulfide cooking liquor implemented at high alkali and polysulfide concentration and at a low temperature. | 10-09-2014 |
20150041083 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING LIGNIN DEGRADATION PRODUCT - The present invention relates to [1] a process for producing a lignin degradation product, including the following steps (1) to (3), and [2] a lignin degradation product produced by the process as described in the above [1]: Step (1): subjecting a lignocellulose raw material to enzymatic saccharification treatment to obtain a saccharification residue; Step (2): subjecting the saccharification residue obtained in the step (1) to heat treatment in a mixed solvent containing water and an organic solvent having a solubility in 20° C. water of not less than 90 g/L to obtain a heat treatment solution containing the lignin degradation product; and Step (3): subjecting the heat treatment solution obtained in the step (2) to solid-liquid separation to remove insoluble components from the heat treatment solution, thereby obtaining the lignin degradation product. The present invention provides a process for producing a novel lignin degradation product having a low degree of denaturation, a high solubility in solvents and a high versatility with a high yield. | 02-12-2015 |
20160153138 | METHOD FOR DISPLACEMENT IN BATCH DIGESTERS | 06-02-2016 |