Kamyr, Inc.

Ahlstrom Recovery Inc.

Jian E Jiang

Kaj Henricson

Joseph R Phillips

Rolf C Ryham

Brian F Greenwood

James W Smith

Kraft pulp is bleached to a brightness of about 90 CPPA or greater, without the use of chlorinated organic compounds that has commercially acceptable strength properties. During production of the kraft pulp it is subjected to extended delignification, by adding kraft white liquor to a first recirculation loop in the digester, and/or a second, wash, recirculation loop in the digester; or by conventional pulping followed by two oxygen stages, with washing between the stages. The extended delignification pulp is then subjected to ozone bleaching, with an ozone dosage of less than 1.0% (preferably less than about 0.5%). The ozone bleaching sequence may be a (ZE)P(ZE)P sequence.

Modified digestion of paper pulp followed by ozone bleaching

Paper pulp (e.g. kraft pulp) is produced utilizing at least two different supplies of cooking liquor, one having low sulfide content, and the other high sulfide content. The high sulfide content supply is typically used to impregnate the pulp or otherwise treat it first, while the second supply is used in other cooking stages (e.g. a digester), whether co-current or countercurrent. The different sulfur content liquors are obtained by heat treating (under pressure) black liquor to drive off sulfur compounds, and absorbing them into white liquor to produce a high sulfide stream. The low sulfide stream is made by conventional treatment of the black liquor after heat treating and evaporation. Utilizing multiple sulfide content supplies results in an optimum viscosity/kappa ratio and/or pulp strength properties for the pulp produced.

Multi-level sulfide content white liquor production and utilization in

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Glens Falls, NY, United States of America

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