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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 26, 1999
Filed:
Mar. 08, 1994
Applicant:
Inventors:
David E White, Pennington, NJ (US);
Michael A Pikulin, Bound Brook, NJ (US);
Thomas P Gandck, Trenton, NJ (US);
William H Friend, Savannah, GA (US);
Assignee:
Union Camp Patent Holding, Inc., Wayne, NJ (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
D21C / ; D21C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
162241 ; 162243 ; 162246 ; 422225 ; 422229 ;
Abstract
An apparatus for delignifying and bleaching a lignocellulosic pulp without the use of elemental chlorine. The bleaching reactor is a horizontal vessel having a central rotatable shaft which preferably contains paddles, cut and folded screw flights or a ribbon flight, to disperse and advance the pulp particles in a plug flow manner while contacting and mixing the pulp particles with a gaseous bleaching agent such as ozone for substantially uniform bleaching thereof.