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- This invention relates to the manufacture of chlorozone on a commercial scale, and to the applications of the same for bleaching fibers, fabrics, paper-pulp, and other materials.
- the material to be treated is brought into direct contact with the bleaching agent, whether it consists of dry chlorine gas or an aqueous solution of hypochloride of lime.
- the bleaching agent whether it consists of dry chlorine gas or an aqueous solution of hypochloride of lime.
- hypochlorous acid of the chloride of lime which is to act by its oxygen and chlorine, is, however, too intimately combined with its base to have any great tendency to combine with the hydrogen of the coloring-matter, and it is only by the addition of acid which displaces it from its base that it is rendered active.
- hypochlorous acid which escapes from the mass, owing to the more or less energetic action of the decomposition of the hypochlorite; second, an immediate injurious efiect upon the fiber caused by the acid :added; third, a more or less slow destructive action due to the line,which becomes encrusted in the pores of the fibers in the form of insoluble salts, incapable of being entirely removed by washing.
- alkaline hypochlorites known in commerce under the name of bleachingliquid, or Labarraques fluid, they are also attended with objections in bleaching which render their employment difficult. Whether weak or concentrated relatively to their rich- October 14, 1878;' patented in France, February 9, 1878.
- hypochlorites The following are the two methods known and usedin commerce for the manufacture of these hypochlorites: first, saturation'of an alkaline lye (carbonate or oxide) by a current of gaseous chlorine, obtained by manganese according to a suitable formula; second, double decomposition of the solution of chloride of lime combined with that of an alkaline car- -bonate. Y
- ⁇ tion should be a pure alkaline hypochlorite
- zone may be acid or alkaline, liquid or solid. It is obtained in the cold by saturating a caustic alkaline lyeby a current of hypochlorous It iswell known that by decomposing the 'hypochlorite or chlorate of an alkali or an alkaline earth by an acid or an electric current, free hypochlorous acid or chlorine is evolved, according to circumstances.
- Acid chlorozone NaO XHO+ (200- X010) NaO,O10 +XH0+199XOlO.
- Alkaline-liquid chlorozone: 4NaO,+XHO)f +4010 (NaO,ClO' 2NaO',(JlO NaOl)+ Both may have ery high 'decolorizing power.
- Dried carbonate of soda for example, added to the chlorozone in proportions varied according to the density of the liquid at a tem-.. perature of 6 to 8 centigrade, forms a compact mass capable of being molded and granulated, and the harder as the temperature of the operation was lower. It only softens at a persistent heat of 20 ccntigrade. Hardened anew by lowering the temperature, it resists ambient heat better, and loses'none of its decolorizing qualities if it is kept protected from air-currents, light, and humidity.
- Eraonpla-G hlorozone 4Na0 4610 (Na'O, @10 2NaO,ClO NaOl) XH (4NaCl' 4- 8HO)+X 8H.
- Hypochlorite 4Na0+40h Its use is valuable for dyersand bleachers of linen, as, besides its decolorizing power, it possesses, owing to its alkaline base, saponitying-qualities.
- acid chlorozone As regards acid chlorozone, it should be used immediately after being made, so that it is necessary that it should be manufactured on the spot. It is chiefly intended for bleaching raw vegetable matters, such as paper-pulp, cotton, linen, hemp, and: other fibers. Oompared with chloride of lime, it should be observed that chlorozone, with an equal quantity of chlorine and three-fourths less base, will take up three times as much .hydrogen from theoloring-matter as the chloride of lime.
- the apparatus employed in the manufacture of chlorozone is most simple, inexpensive, and requires but little room. It is composed, first, of ahypochlorous-acid-gas generator, a closed vessel of about one hundred and fifty liters capacity; second, of two; satnrators, also closed, ot'abont'two hundred liters capaunty;
- the accompanying drawing represents, by way of example, only the apparatus which is employed in preparing the bath, the decomposing agent being a liquid acid.
- A is the receiver to contain the acid, provided with a graduated gage, a, for indicating the quantity of liquid in the receiver, and also that which has passed out, and a cock, b, for regulating the flow.
- B is a receiver for the hypochlorite or chlorate, to be decomposed by the acid supplied from the vessel A, and introduced at the center of i in a fine stream through a pipe, 0, which also gives admission to air.
- the mouth 0 O of the vessel, through which it is charged, is hermetically sealed, and the "essel is provided with a cock, (I, for emptying it.
- This vessel is the generator of the hypoehlorous acid.
- the next two portions of theapparatus, G D are saturators, containing the alkaline solution, and consist simply of vats or other vessels hermetically closed.
- E,1 also closed, and filled to three-tourths of its capacity with'water colored with indigo-blue.
- II is the airpnmp.
- F is the bleaching-vat, provided with an agitator.
- the vessels B G D E are, like a W'oulfe apparatus, placed in communication with each other by pipes q f, which rise from the top of each vessel and dip down nearly to the bottom of the next, and finally connected by a pipe, II, with pump H, which draws air through the whole series of apparatus.
- the vessel A is charged with eighty kilograms of hydrochloric acid diluted with water to about .12 Baum, and vessel B is charged with twenty kilograms of chloride of lime at one hundred chlorometric degrees.
- the vessels 0 D are charged with a solution of three kilograms of soda in five hundred liters of .water, (two hundred and fifty liters in each vessel and, lastly, the bottle E is tilled with water colored with indigo-blue.
- the cock I) of vessel A is then opened and the acid allowed to tlow out slowly, and the pump 1! set in motion rather slowly, in order to avoid pumping out the gas.
- an exhauster may be used, working with a jet of steam or water, like a (liti'ard injector, and vessel A may be replaced by an electric battery, whose poles are placed in vessel B.
- the draft of air through the generator and saturators has the advantage, first, of assisting the production of hypoehlorous acid in the generator by a portion. of its oxygen, which goes to produce this reaction; seeond,.of moderating the chemical reaction in the generator; third, of preventing any leakage of gas in the apparatus, as well as any possible explosion of the apparatus, by reducing the pressure of the gases to a minimum and, fourth, of facilitating the completion of the reaction by which the hypoehlorous-acid gas isproduced in the generator, and the extraction from the generator of the last traces of the said gas.
- hypoehlorous acid in traversing the liquid contained in the vessels 0 D, saturates them in unequal proportion, C receiving the maximum andD the minimum degree of saturation.
- the base held in solution in the former is transformed into chlorate and that in the second into hypochlorite of soda.
- the excess of hypoehlorous-acid gas will only be absorbed by the water of the-solution in the first saturator. The operation lasts about one hour. If the blue liquor in E be quickly decolorized, it shows that gas is being drawn out with the air, and that the exhaust should be moderated.
- the wa- The stirrer in vat 1* should be at once set in motion, as the contact of air and the movement of the materials greatlyassist the bleachin After this bleaching has been effected, the residues of the bleaching-vat may be advantageously employed for preparing the lye, or may be recovered and saturated afresh with hypoehlorous acid.
- the vessels 0 I) may, by the suction of the pump, be charged through the same pipes k t as were used for emptying them, the cooks on the respective communicating-pipes q gfbeing suitably regulated for the purpose.
- the materials to be bleached require to be acted on repeatedly each time for a short period, rather than by the more energetic action of a single passage through the bath of chlorozone, this may be readily done by this system of successive decantation and saturation of the bleaching-liquid.
- vat 0 In some cases it would even be advantageous to saturate the alkaline liquor in presence of the material to be bleached, for which purpose the vat 0 would be arranged to receive the material. In this case the agitation of the air replaces the action-of the stirrer. I) would in all cases receive the gas escaping from the vat G.
- the bleaehin g action is most rapid and never destructive, and is accompanied by the saponifyin g action due to the soluble al- The vat kaline base, and thus both time and raw material are saved, as well as expense.
- I claim-- 1 The manufacture of a new product called ohlorozone,which maybe used in acid or alkaline formi. 0., an oxygenated and chlorous decolorizing agent having for a base a soluble alkali or alkaline earth -subst-antially as herein shown and set forth.
- chlorozone which consists invsaturating analkaline solution by a more or less considerable current of hypoehlorous-acid gas, produced by the decomposition in the cold of hypoehlorites or of chloratcs by an acid, and a current of air, essentially as described.
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vT. S. Comte de DIENHEIM-BROOHOGKI. Manufacture of Bleaching Liquids.
No. 210,273. Patented Nov. 26,1878.
% lrwemr THOMAS SIMON, OOMTE DE DIENHEIM-BROOHOGKI, on PARIS, FRANCE,
ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF PLACE.
AND CORNELIUS ROOSEVELT, OF SAME IMPROVEMENT IN THE MANUFACTURE OF BLEACHlNG-LIQUIDS.
Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 210,273, dated November 26,1878japplication filed To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS SIMON, Comte de Dienheim-Brochocki, of Paris, France, engineer, have invented Improvements in the Manufacture of Liquids for Decolorizing and Bleaching, and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed sheet of drawings, making a part of the same.
This invention relates to the manufacture of chlorozone on a commercial scale, and to the applications of the same for bleaching fibers, fabrics, paper-pulp, and other materials.
In bleaching with chlorine in the ordinary manner the material to be treated is brought into direct contact with the bleaching agent, whether it consists of dry chlorine gas or an aqueous solution of hypochloride of lime. In the first case the chlorine destroys the coloringmatter by combining with its hydrogen, forming hydrochloric acid, (Ol+H=HOl,) which, as fast as it is formed, acts destructively upon the ligneous matter, and the mass is not entirely bleached without being destroyed to a great extent. In the other case the hypochlorous acid of the chloride of lime, which is to act by its oxygen and chlorine, is, however, too intimately combined with its base to have any great tendency to combine with the hydrogen of the coloring-matter, and it is only by the addition of acid which displaces it from its base that it is rendered active. The result is, first, a loss in hypochlorous acid, which escapes from the mass, owing to the more or less energetic action of the decomposition of the hypochlorite; second, an immediate injurious efiect upon the fiber caused by the acid :added; third, a more or less slow destructive action due to the linie,which becomes encrusted in the pores of the fibers in the form of insoluble salts, incapable of being entirely removed by washing. As regards the alkaline hypochlorites known in commerce under the name of bleachingliquid, or Labarraques fluid, they are also attended with objections in bleaching which render their employment difficult. Whether weak or concentrated relatively to their rich- October 14, 1878;' patented in France, February 9, 1878.
ness in decolorizing power, they are always very alkaline,and consequently'too corrosive, and bleach with difficulty without the aid of an acid to stimulate the reaction and neutralize the excess of alkali. product being only obtained by a long, objectionable, and dangerous process, its cost is necessarily veryhigh.
The following are the two methods known and usedin commerce for the manufacture of these hypochlorites: first, saturation'of an alkaline lye (carbonate or oxide) by a current of gaseous chlorine, obtained by manganese according to a suitable formula; second, double decomposition of the solution of chloride of lime combined with that of an alkaline car- -bonate. Y
. In the first case the operation of manufacture requires twenty-four hours. The base should be considerably in excess in the solution; otherwise decomposition will certainly take place. It is diflicultto give the product a chlorometric power exceeding 35 to 30 Baum, which leaves about one-third of base in excess. Beyond this limit the chlorous saturation becomes difficult, the heatingof the material, notwithstanding refrigeration, is un-- avoidable, and its more or less rapid decomposition ensues. The product, moreover, is most unstable, and loses very rapidly the greater portion of its decolorizin g power. It is -'dear, very caustic, and with difficulty transported during the summer season. Its formula is as follows: 2NaO+2Gl:Na0,0lO+NaGl.
In the second case, neither the chloride of lime nor the alkaline carbonate being soluble at a cool temperature and necessary in this case beyond 'a restricted limit, the product bbtained by their double decomposition is still poorer in decolorizing principle than the productobtained by the method above referred to. The
operation itself, though simple in principle, becomes long and tedious on account of the many. washings of 'theprecipitates. Itfur-- nishes a product of twenty-five chlorometric degrees, containing in' itssolution a sensible quantity of chloride of calcium, which in the bleaching operation is found again 1n the form of carbonate or sulphate of lime, according to The concentrated asin the preceding case,'the product is too tional, and inexpensive operation. The chloroacid in conjunction with a current of air.
in the nascent state combines with chlorine I gas and forms hypochlorous acid, and that the product obtained will be the chlorozone in 7 question, which is acid or alkaline, according [which it is saturated.
\ tion should be a pure alkaline hypochlorite,
I ing to circumstances, conforms to one of the XHO.
' 'It'is evident that if the current of air drawn in during the manufacture be shut oil, and if the quantity of decomposing-acid be halved,
the mode of treatment adopted. Here again,-
alkaline, most unstable, and too costly.
Diiferent results, and at a much more advantageous rate, may be obtained in bleaching with chlorozone, produced by a simple, ra-
zone may be acid or alkaline, liquid or solid. It is obtained in the cold by saturating a caustic alkaline lyeby a current of hypochlorous It iswell known that by decomposing the 'hypochlorite or chlorate of an alkali or an alkaline earth by an acid or an electric current, free hypochlorous acid or chlorine is evolved, according to circumstances.
Ewampla -(GaQOlO-l-OaOl)+2A =20a(),A +20l,(chlorine ;)(OaO,GlO+OaGl)-l-A CaO. A+GaCl+O10,(hypochlorousacid;)(MO,OlO 3HO1= MCI 3H0 3010, (hypochlorous acid.) I
It is also known that the oxygen of the air to the-proportion of the equivalents of the base in solution, and of the hypochlorous acid by According to theory, the result of this rcacwhich is a 'very unstable salt; but owing, however, to a continuous action under the influence of a constant current of air, the final product i of the operation is atriple salt, and, accordfollowing formulas:
Acid chlorozone: NaO XHO+ (200- X010) NaO,O10 +XH0+199XOlO.
. Alkaline-liquid chlorozone: 4NaO,+XHO)f +4010 =(NaO,ClO' 2NaO',(JlO NaOl)+ Both may have ery high 'decolorizing power.
chlorine gas will be evolved, and 'not hypochlorous acid. The final product will then be a common hypochlorite. l
Erampla -(CaOfllO OaOl)+2A= 2Ga0, A+20l,20l+2NaO=NaOClO+NaGL The alkaline chlorozone marking 40 Baum and one hundred to one hundred andtwenty chlorometric degrees, becomes easily crystallizable at a low temperature; but the crystals obtained are melted easily by the least heat. Its employment is on that account impracticable. The contrary is the case if the chlorozone be solidified by'the absorptionof its excess of water by means of a hydrometric alkaline salt. temperature nor the maximum chlorometric richness of the chlorozone are necessary.
Dried carbonate of soda, for example, added to the chlorozone in proportions varied according to the density of the liquid at a tem-.. perature of 6 to 8 centigrade, forms a compact mass capable of being molded and granulated, and the harder as the temperature of the operation was lower. It only softens at a persistent heat of 20 ccntigrade. Hardened anew by lowering the temperature, it resists ambient heat better, and loses'none of its decolorizing qualities if it is kept protected from air-currents, light, and humidity.
The liquid alkaline chlorozone, marking 30,
Baum' and fifty chlorometric degrees, is very stable, and may be kept several months.- 7 It' is therefore easily transported. With an equal quantity of base and chlorine, the decolorizing power of chlorozone is double that of an alkaline hypochlorite of commerce obtained,
as before mentioned, by a current of chlorine.
Eraonpla-G hlorozone: 4Na0 4610 (Na'O, @10 2NaO,ClO NaOl) XH (4NaCl' 4- 8HO)+X 8H. Hypochlorite: 4Na0+40h Its use is valuable for dyersand bleachers of linen, as, besides its decolorizing power, it possesses, owing to its alkaline base, saponitying-qualities.
As regards acid chlorozone, it should be used immediately after being made, so that it is necessary that it should be manufactured on the spot. It is chiefly intended for bleaching raw vegetable matters, such as paper-pulp, cotton, linen, hemp, and: other fibers. Oompared with chloride of lime, it should be observed that chlorozone, with an equal quantity of chlorine and three-fourths less base, will take up three times as much .hydrogen from theoloring-matter as the chloride of lime.
In the first case there is 4H and in the secondcase 12H taken from the coloring-matter, as shown by the following re tion: (NaO,OlO
The apparatus employed in the manufacture of chlorozone is most simple, inexpensive, and requires but little room. It is composed, first, of ahypochlorous-acid-gas generator, a closed vessel of about one hundred and fifty liters capacity; second, of two; satnrators, also closed, ot'abont'two hundred liters capaunty;
In this case neither the too-low third, of an air-pump or exhauster working by a jet of steam or current of water. The whole of these apparatus are connected together by a system of tubes, fixed and arranged as hereinafter described.
The accompanying drawing represents, by way of example, only the apparatus which is employed in preparing the bath, the decomposing agent being a liquid acid.
A is the receiver to contain the acid, provided with a graduated gage, a, for indicating the quantity of liquid in the receiver, and also that which has passed out, and a cock, b, for regulating the flow.
B is a receiver for the hypochlorite or chlorate, to be decomposed by the acid supplied from the vessel A, and introduced at the center of i in a fine stream through a pipe, 0, which also gives admission to air. The mouth 0 O of the vessel, through which it is charged, is hermetically sealed, and the "essel is provided with a cock, (I, for emptying it. This vessel is the generator of the hypoehlorous acid. The next two portions of theapparatus, G D, are saturators, containing the alkaline solution, and consist simply of vats or other vessels hermetically closed. Next in order to these is a small glass bottle, E,1also closed, and filled to three-tourths of its capacity with'water colored with indigo-blue. Lastly, II is the airpnmp. F is the bleaching-vat, provided with an agitator.
It will be evident that when it is desired to use a gaseous aci dcarbonic-acid gas, for exampleit would be supplied in the usual way.
The vessels B G D E are, like a W'oulfe apparatus, placed in communication with each other by pipes q f, which rise from the top of each vessel and dip down nearly to the bottom of the next, and finally connected by a pipe, II, with pump H, which draws air through the whole series of apparatus.
Suppose it is desired to form a bath of chlorozone containing one thousand liters of hypoehlorous acid or two thousand decolorizing units, and that the elements for its production are chloride of lime and hydrochloric acid. The vessel A is charged with eighty kilograms of hydrochloric acid diluted with water to about .12 Baum, and vessel B is charged with twenty kilograms of chloride of lime at one hundred chlorometric degrees. The vessels 0 D are charged with a solution of three kilograms of soda in five hundred liters of .water, (two hundred and fifty liters in each vessel and, lastly, the bottle E is tilled with water colored with indigo-blue. The cock I) of vessel A is then opened and the acid allowed to tlow out slowly, and the pump 1! set in motion rather slowly, in order to avoid pumping out the gas.
Instead of a pump, an exhauster may be used, working with a jet of steam or water, like a (liti'ard injector, and vessel A may be replaced by an electric battery, whose poles are placed in vessel B. p
The draft of air through the generator and saturators has the advantage, first, of assisting the production of hypoehlorous acid in the generator by a portion. of its oxygen, which goes to produce this reaction; seeond,.of moderating the chemical reaction in the generator; third, of preventing any leakage of gas in the apparatus, as well as any possible explosion of the apparatus, by reducing the pressure of the gases to a minimum and, fourth, of facilitating the completion of the reaction by which the hypoehlorous-acid gas isproduced in the generator, and the extraction from the generator of the last traces of the said gas.
The hypoehlorous acid, in traversing the liquid contained in the vessels 0 D, saturates them in unequal proportion, C receiving the maximum andD the minimum degree of saturation. The base held in solution in the former is transformed into chlorate and that in the second into hypochlorite of soda. The excess of hypoehlorous-acid gas will only be absorbed by the water of the-solution in the first saturator. The operation lasts about one hour. If the blue liquor in E be quickly decolorized, it shows that gas is being drawn out with the air, and that the exhaust should be moderated. When saturation is complete-that is to say, when the whole of the acid has run out from vessel A-the exhaust is stopped, after which the contents of the apparatus 0 1) are discharged through cocks i j and india-rubber pipes It 1 into vat F, containing the materials to be bleached, which have previously been suitably scoured and washed with acids and water. i
The chemical action of this bath upon the coloring-matter is y ry rapid, being almost instantaneous, but ne\ er injurious, as it is principally due to the action of nascent oxygen,
as is shown by the followingreaction, (the wa- The stirrer in vat 1* should be at once set in motion, as the contact of air and the movement of the materials greatlyassist the bleachin After this bleaching has been effected, the residues of the bleaching-vat may be advantageously employed for preparing the lye, or may be recovered and saturated afresh with hypoehlorous acid.
The vessels 0 I) may, by the suction of the pump, be charged through the same pipes k t as were used for emptying them, the cooks on the respective communicating-pipes q gfbeing suitably regulated for the purpose. Thus if the materials to be bleached require to be acted on repeatedly each time for a short period, rather than by the more energetic action of a single passage through the bath of chlorozone, this may be readily done by this system of successive decantation and saturation of the bleaching-liquid.
In some cases it would even be advantageous to saturate the alkaline liquor in presence of the material to be bleached, for which purpose the vat 0 would be arranged to receive the material. In this case the agitation of the air replaces the action-of the stirrer. I) would in all cases receive the gas escaping from the vat G.
It is obvious that after the action of the chlorozone the bleached materials should be carefully washed. The bleaching action of ozone is accompanied also by a peculiar phenomenon, which is, that it strengthens the ligneous1natteri. 6., the resistance of its fibers as is the case in bleaching on meadows.
The cost of chlorozone per one hundred kilograms of material to be bleached does not' exceed that of chloride of lime now used for bleaching an equal quantity of material, and the advantages'of the former over the latter are as follows:.
First. The long and objectionable preparation of the chloride-of-lime bleaching-bath is avoided.
Second. The acids added to strengthen the reaction of the bath, to the detriment of the fiber and the loss of hypochlorous acid, are dispensed with.
Third. The direct contactof the material to be bleached with the lime (which is deposited in the fibers in the form of insoluble salts, cannot be removed by washing, and in time destroys the fiber) is avoided.
Fourth. The bleaehin g action is most rapid and never destructive, and is accompanied by the saponifyin g action due to the soluble al- The vat kaline base, and thus both time and raw material are saved, as well as expense.
Fifth. All intermittent washings with water and acids between the several successive int mersions in the bleaching-bath are dispensed with, one single bath of chlorozone of suitable strength being capable of bleaching any vegetable matter without a repetition of the treatment, whereby an economy in labor, acids, water, machinery, apparatus, and fuel is effected.
Sixth. The residue of the bleaching-bath is utilized, whereas that of .a chloride-of-lime bath is useless.
I claim-- 1. The manufacture of a new product called ohlorozone,which maybe used in acid or alkaline formi. 0., an oxygenated and chlorous decolorizing agent having for a base a soluble alkali or alkaline earth -subst-antially as herein shown and set forth.
2. The process hereinbefore described of obtaining the product called chlorozone, which consists invsaturating analkaline solution by a more or less considerable current of hypoehlorous-acid gas, produced by the decomposition in the cold of hypoehlorites or of chloratcs by an acid, and a current of air, essentially as described.
3. The process of bleaching herein set forth, which consists in the employment of chlorozone in acid or alkaline solution, as set forth.
THOMAS SIMON, Comte do Die-nlwim-Broclmcl'i.
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ItoB'r. M. HooPEn, EUGENE HELERT.
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