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C Bertil Stromberg

J Robert Prough

Bruno S Marcoccia

Richard O Laakso

Kaj Henricson

Keith Vogel

John F Bolles

Joseph R Phillips

Namhee Shin

Patrick J Sullivan

Brian F Greenwood

Auvo K Kettunen

Rolf C Ryham

R Fred Chasse

Mark D Barrett

J Wayne Chamblee

Hannu Olavi Ramark

Aki Hannu Vilpponen

Erwin D Funk

Louis O Torregrossa

Thomas Pschorn

Ventzislav H Kirov

William J Cann

Vic L Bilodeau

James R Prough

Craig A Walley

Keith P Vogel

Jerry R Johanson

Johan E Gullichsen

Michael D Meredith

Ronald G Bain

Aaron Leavitt

Carl L Luhrmann

Tim Pease

Jay J Miele

Thomas R Delcourt

Pam O'Leary

Tim S Pease

Ella Sun Yu

Patrick E Sharpe

Aaron T Leavitt

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.

Single vessel reactor system 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.

Two vessel reactor system and method for hydrolysis and digestion of wood chips with chemical enhanced wash method

Process for bleaching of pulps following cooking of the lignocellulosic material with soda and anthraquinone. The process may produce a whiteness on par with the bleaching of kraft pulp when using a similar bleaching sequence. In some instances, the bleaching sequence may be O-A-Do-Eop-D, O-A-ZDo-Eop-D, A-Do, or A-ZDo.

Processes and systems for the bleaching of lignocellulosic pulps following cooking with soda and anthraquinone

A system and method for extracting Csugars including pentose and/or Csugars including hexose from a slurry of cellulosic material comprising cellulose, water, and optionally acid.

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A system and method for extracting pentose from a slurry of cellulosic material comprising cellulose, water, and optionally acid in a two-stage process.

Apparatus and method for hydrolysis of cellulosic material in a two-step process

A method to chemically treat light weight, bulky cellulosic material including: introducing the material to an upper inlet of a substantially vertical treatment vessel; maintaining the material in the vessel at a pressure of at least 20 bar and at a temperature of at least 200&#xb0; C.; treating the material with a cooking liquor in the vessel; moving the material past at least one anti-compression ring on an inside surface of the vessel, as the material moves downward through the vessel; agitating the material in the vessel, and discharging the treated material from a lower discharge port of the vessel.

Treatment vessel for straw or other light bulky material

A method for converting a vapor phase continuous digester to a hydraulic digester including the steps of: operating the vapor phase digester in a vapor phase mode wherein a chip slurry enters the vessel of the digester through a lower chip inlet port, moves up through a top separator, discharges from an upper chip discharge chute of the separator to an upper vapor region of the vessel and falls to a liquor filled region of the vessel; ceasing the flow of the chip slurry to the separator; establishing a chip slurry flow path to an upper portion of top separator, and filling the vessel with liquor and chips such that the chip discharge chute is immersed in liquor.

Method for converting a digester for use as a gas phase and hydraulic phase continuous digester

A method for feeding a cellulosic fibrous material to a high pressure processing vessel including: pressurizing a low pressure flow of the fibrous material in a high pressure transfer device; discharging a high pressure flow of the fibrous material from the transfer device to a conduit in fluid communication with the processing vessel; discharging a low pressure flow of fluid and fibrous material from the transfer device; downstream of the transfer device, pressurizing the discharged low pressure flow; merging the pressurized low pressure discharge flow with the discharged high pressure flow, and transferring the merged flow to the processing vessel.

Method and system for feeding cellulose chips to a high pressure continuous cooking system

A method for adding cooking liquor into a vapor phase continuous digester for producing chemical cellulose pulp from cellulose chips including: introducing a slurry of the cellulose chips from a feed system to an inverted top separator in a top vapor phase section of the digester; distributing the slurry of the cellulose chips from the top separator into the vapor phase section of the digester; passing liquor through a conduit included with the drive shaft assembly of the top separator, and introducing the liquor from the conduit into the slurry as the slurry flows through the top separator or is distributed from the separator into the vapor phase section.

Gas phase continuous digester having an inverted top separator with liquor injection

A continuous digester for producing chemical cellulose pulp from cellulose chips including: a digester vessel with an upper section attached to a top separator and said vessel at least partially filled with the cellulose chips and a liquor; a top separator at least partially in said upper section having a lower chip inlet port, a chip conveyor, a screen adjacent the conveyor, an upper chip discharge chute, and a liquor outlet facing a side of the screen opposite to the conveyor, and a chip inlet conduit extending into the vessel and having a first operational mode in fluid communication with the chip inlet port and a second operational mode in which the chip inlet conduit discharges directly into the vessel.

Top separator for gas phase and hydraulic phase continuous digesters and method for converting digester

A continuous digester is disclosed for producing chemical cellulose pulp from cellulose chips, comprising: a continuous digester vessel having a lower section filled with the cellulose chips and an upper gas filled section; an inverted separator at least partially in said upper section which introduces chips and liquid into said digester vessel and separates some of the liquid from the chips, wherein said separator includes a drive shaft connected to a conveyor, and a liquid discharge port proximate to the drive shaft and arranged proximate to a chip discharge of the separator.

A system and method for feeding comminuted cellulosic fibrous material such as wood chips to the top of a treatment vessel such as a continuous digester provide enhanced simplicity, operability, and maintainability by eliminating the high pressure transfer device conventionally used in the prior art. Instead of a high pressure transfer device the steamed and slurried chips are pressurized using a single vane slurry pump in series with a centrifugal slurry pump both of which are located at least thirty feet below the top of the treatment vessel and for pressurizing the slurry to a pressure of at least about 10 bar gauge.

Feeding comminuted fibrous material using high pressure screw and centrifugal pumps

A top separator assembly for a digester is disclosed comprising: a rotatable shaft for the top separator; a packing for the shaft; and a sealing ring operatively mounted to the shaft and having a nominal clearance with the pack box, said sealing ring mounted so that up lifting of said shaft provides a substantially fluid tight seal between said pack box and a side of said ring (in the digester) opposite the pack box.

Top separator with intraseal for digester vessel in a pulp or fiber processing system

A method is disclosed for extracting liquor from a cellulose slurry for a continuous digester comprising the steps of: providing the cellulose slurry of liquor and chips of cellulose fiber material to a separator; extracting a first stream of liquor from the separator; extracting a second stream of liquor from the separator, where the second stream has an effective alkali (EA) concentration greater than the EA concentration of the first steam; outputting the first stream from the separator and outputting the second stream from the separator separately from the second stream, and outputting a condensed slurry from the separator to a digester vessel.

Continuous digester having a sectioned top separator with multiple liquor extraction ports

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Diamond Point, NY, United States of America

C Bertil Stromberg