CA1245403A - Mechanical pulp pumping and hydrosulfite bleaching - Google Patents
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MECHANICAL PULP PUMPING
AND HYDROSULFITE BLEACHING
ABSTRACT
A medium consistency mechanical pulp (e.g.
RMP, CMP, TMP, CTMP or stone groundwood) is treated to effect efficient reductive bleaching. The pulp, at 5-25 percent consistency (preferably 8-15%) is simultaneously pumped and degassed utilizing a fluidizing pump, and by controlling the pump head to maximize deaeration. The pulp may be immediately passed -- without air introduction -- to a fluidizing mixer, where it is mixed with hydrosulfite bleaching chemical. Alternatively, the hydrosulfite may be added directly to the discharge or suction of the pump, and the mixer eliminated. After chemical addition, the pulp is retained at predetermined pH and temperature conditions for a predetermined period of time to effect the desired bleaching.
AND HYDROSULFITE BLEACHING
ABSTRACT
A medium consistency mechanical pulp (e.g.
RMP, CMP, TMP, CTMP or stone groundwood) is treated to effect efficient reductive bleaching. The pulp, at 5-25 percent consistency (preferably 8-15%) is simultaneously pumped and degassed utilizing a fluidizing pump, and by controlling the pump head to maximize deaeration. The pulp may be immediately passed -- without air introduction -- to a fluidizing mixer, where it is mixed with hydrosulfite bleaching chemical. Alternatively, the hydrosulfite may be added directly to the discharge or suction of the pump, and the mixer eliminated. After chemical addition, the pulp is retained at predetermined pH and temperature conditions for a predetermined period of time to effect the desired bleaching.
Description
~S~403 MECHANICAL PUI,P PUMPING
AND HYDP~OSULFITE BLEACHING
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
_ .. . . _ With ~hortages in raw materials for manufacture o paper pulps, mechanical pulping processes have become of more int:erest. Mechanical pulping processes generally have higher yields than chemical pulping processes. ~owever, since i~
mechanical pulpin~ processes ~including refiner mechanical pulping ~RM~), chemimechanical pulping (CMP), thermomechanical pulping ~TMP), and chemithermomechanical pulping lCTMP) ), most of the lignin and polys~ccharides are left in the pulp, rather than being dissolved and modified as i~
chemical pulping, bleaching must be accomplished by decoloration, instead of by solubili~ation, as in chemical pulpin~.
One major process for bleaching of mechanical pulps is a reductive bleaching process utilizing 20 hydrosul~ite, such as ~odium hydrosulfite or zinc hydrosulfite. While hydrosulfite bleaching can achieve th~ desired decoloration of the mechanical pulp, there are a number of drawbacks associated with its use. ~ydrosulfite is oxidized extremely rapidly 25 by air, therefore ~he entrainment of air in the pulp can negate the bleaching efects of the hydrosulfite.
This makes hydrosulite impractical for use with '~''JP~' ~
~s~
mechanical pulps having a consistency of much greater than 4 percent since as the consistency rises the pulp tends to entrain air. However, it is d~sirable to . effect bleaching at the same eonsistency as for other processing of the pulp te.g. 5-25 percent, preferably 8-15 percent), although successive diluting and thickening stages are to ~e avoided because of the equipment costs and ener~y expense associated therewith.
According to the present invention, a method of treating mechanical pulp is provided that allows reductive bleaching of the pulp in an effective manner at pulp consistencies of about 5-25 percent, and preferably B-15 perrent~ during the entire treating procedure. ~ccording to one aspect of the present invention, the method comprises, or consists essentially of, the following sequential steps~
(a~ Simultaneous pumping and degassing the mechanical pulp. This is preferably accomplished utilizing a ~o fluidizing centrifugal pump. (b) Immediately a~ter after (a), mixing, substantially without air introduction, the mechanical pulp with an effective charge of hydrosulfite bleaching chemical. The mixing preferably is aecomplished in a fluidizing mixer, and the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical includes seques~ering, chelating, and buffering agentsO A
typical charge is 0.5-1.5 percent hydrosulfite. And (c) retaining the pulp at predetermined pH (e.g. about 4.5-6.53 and temperature ~e.g. about 35-80C) conditions for a predetermined period of time ~e.g.
about 0.25-2 hours) to effect the desired bleaching.
By practicing the invention oxidation of the reductive bleaching agent is avoided, a minimal amount of equipment is utilizedt and the processing can be done at the desired consistency range of 8-15 percent.
54~3 Alternativelyl the mixer may be eliminated, and the hydrosulfite added directly to the fluidizing pump. For instance, the chemical may be added to the discharge, or the suction, of the pump.
It is the primary object of the presen~
invention to provide a method for trea~ing mechanical pulp to provide efficient reductive ~leaching thereof.
This and other objects of the invention will become clear from an inspection of the detailed description of the invention and from the appended claims.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIGURE 1 is a schematic view illustrating exemplary apparatus utilized in practicing the method according to the present invention;
FIGURE 2 is a schematic detail cross-sectional YieW 0~ the exemplary fluidizing centrifugal pump illustrated in ~IGURE l; and FI~URES 3 and 4 are schema~ic views of two different alternative embodiments of apparatus for practicing the method of the invention.
DETAILED DE~CRIPTION O~ THE DRA~INGS
The method according to the present invention is applicable to mechanical pulps. That term, 2S
commonly used in the industry and as used in the 2S instant ~pecification and claims, encompasses refiner mechanical pulps ~RMP), chemimechanical pulps (CMP), thermomechanical pulps ITMP), chemithermomechanical pulps (CTMP~, and stone groundwood pulps.
~ILZ~54~3 Typically, the mechanical pulp is produced utilizing any desired conventional technique, and then is fed by line 11 to a storage tower 12 or the like.
According to the present invention it is preferable to 5 mount a fluidizing centrifugal pump 13 at the bottom of the storage tower 12, to draw the mechanical pulp downwardly therefrom. The pulp typically has a consistency of about 5 25 percent, and a consistency of 8-15 percent is preferred.
The fluidizing centrifugal pump 13, and an apparatus and method for controlling the head there-from, are illustrated and described in Applic~nt's United States Patent No. 4,435,193 issued March 6, 1984. The pump 13, as illustrated in Figure 2, may 15 comprise an inlet channel 14, a xotor 15 including a plurality o E axially extending blades 16 having an interior openin~ 17 therebetween, and impeller blades 18. The blades 18 rotate in a spiral housing section 19, and gas can pass through openings 21, 22 20 from the housing section 19 to a gas chamber 20, the gas chamber 20 being connected up to a gas discharge line 23.
~ ulp passes from the pump 13 into the discharge line 25/ with a throttling valve 25 dis-25 posed therein. The head of the pump 13 i5 controlled,by adjusting the throttling valve 26 in a manner explained in the aforementioned U.S. Patent No.
4,435,193, so that a variety of heads within a wide xange may be achieved. The valve 26 preferably is 30 controlled, according to the present invention, so that the pump head is maximized, to thereby maximize the degassing action of the pump (i.e. maximizing the amount of air withdrawn through conduit23).
59L~3 After simultaneous pumping and degassing of the mechanical pulp in the pump 13, the pulp is immediately passed to a mixer 28. The pulp must be passed to the mixer 28 so that substantially no air introduction occurs, and the mixer 28 must effect mixing without air introduction. At the mixer, hydrosulfite bleaching chemical is added from line 29 to the mixer, and is thoroughly mixed with the pulp.
- For the practice of the present invention, the mixer 28 preferably comprises a fluidizing mixer such as shown in U.S. Patents 4,0~3,506 and 4,339,206, The amount of hydrosulfite bleaching chemical added to provide an effective charge will vary depending upon the properties of the mechanical pulp, the amount of bleaching desired, etc. Typically, however, the sodium hydrosulfite or zinc hydrosulfite would be added so that the total charge was about 0.5-1.5 percent. Buffering, sequestering, and/or chelating agents, such as sodium tripolyphophate and sodium diethylenetriaminepetaacetate, are also preferably added with the hydrosulfite.
After mixing of the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical into the pulp using mixer 28, the pulp, still at the same consistency (i.e. 5-25 percent), is retained at pred~termined pH and temperature condi-tions for a predetermined period of time to effect the desired bleaching. ~his retention may be merely in conduits passing the pulp onto a further processing station, or may be in a vessel particularly designed for that purpose, such as a conventional up-flow bleaching tower 31. Typical, although not limiting, conditions are: pH, about 4.5-6.5; temperature, about 35-80 C; retention time, about 0.25-2 hours.
~454~3 Since the pulp is essentially completely degassed before mixing with the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical, the bleaching action can be effectively controlled, and the desired amount of bleaching chemical can be added to effect the desired bleachin~. The degassing action is accomplished, according to the present invention, in a simple and effective manner, and with a minimum amount of equipment. The pulp, at a consistency of between 5-25 percent, and preferably 8-15 percent, i5 withdrawn from storage tower 12, si~ultaneously pumped and degassed by fluidizing centrifugal pump 13, the head of which is controlled by valve 26 to maximize degassing action, immediately passed to fluidixing mixer 28 at which the hydrosulfite bleachin~ chemical is added via line 29, and subsequently passed to a conventional retention tower 31, or the like, where it is retained at predetermined pH and temperature conditions for a predetermined period of time to effect desired bleaching.
In the exemplary embodim~nts of the present invention illustrated schematically in FI~URES 3 and 4, the mixer 28 is eliminated, and instead the hydro-sulfite is added directly to the pulp within the pump 13. In the FIGURES 3 and 4 embodiments, the control mechanisms for the pump 13 have not been shown, for clarity of illustration.
In the FIGURE 3 embodiment, the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical is added through line 33 directly to the discharge of the pump 13. At the discharge of the pump 13, the pulp has been efectively degassed, and when the bleaching chemical i5 added through a nozzle, or like other introduction structure, ~ue to the turbulence of the pulp at that point, it will ~s~
become intermixed with the pulp~ and effective bleaching will occur.
In the embodiment illustrated in FIGURE 4, the pump 13 is shown with the axis of rotation of the rotor thereof horizontal. This merely illustrates that the present inven~ion may be practiced irrespective of the orientation (e~gO, horizontal or vertical) of the pump rotor.
In the FIGURE 4 embodiment, the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical is added via :Line 35 at the suction of the pump 13. Again, in~roduction can be accom-plished utilizing a suitable nozzle, or the like.
While the pulp is not completely degassed at this position, adding the bleaching chemical at the suction provides for complete intermixing of the bleaching chemical with the pulp as it is pumped by the pump 13, and the time from ehemical addition at the suction side of the pump, to effective degassing by the pump, is short enough that under most circumstances entrained air will nbt siqnificantly negate the bleaching effects of the hydrosulfite. ~owever, if entrained air does nega~e such effects for a particu-lar pulp, then the embodiments of FIGURES 1 and 3 will be utilized instead of the embodiment of FIGVRE 4.
While the invention has been herein shown and described in what is presently conceived to be the most practical and preferred embodiment thereof, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that many modifications may be made thereof within the scope of the invention, which scope is to be accorded the broadest interpretation of the appended claims so as to enrompass all equivalent methods and procedures.
AND HYDP~OSULFITE BLEACHING
BACKGROUND AND SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION
_ .. . . _ With ~hortages in raw materials for manufacture o paper pulps, mechanical pulping processes have become of more int:erest. Mechanical pulping processes generally have higher yields than chemical pulping processes. ~owever, since i~
mechanical pulpin~ processes ~including refiner mechanical pulping ~RM~), chemimechanical pulping (CMP), thermomechanical pulping ~TMP), and chemithermomechanical pulping lCTMP) ), most of the lignin and polys~ccharides are left in the pulp, rather than being dissolved and modified as i~
chemical pulping, bleaching must be accomplished by decoloration, instead of by solubili~ation, as in chemical pulpin~.
One major process for bleaching of mechanical pulps is a reductive bleaching process utilizing 20 hydrosul~ite, such as ~odium hydrosulfite or zinc hydrosulfite. While hydrosulfite bleaching can achieve th~ desired decoloration of the mechanical pulp, there are a number of drawbacks associated with its use. ~ydrosulfite is oxidized extremely rapidly 25 by air, therefore ~he entrainment of air in the pulp can negate the bleaching efects of the hydrosulfite.
This makes hydrosulite impractical for use with '~''JP~' ~
~s~
mechanical pulps having a consistency of much greater than 4 percent since as the consistency rises the pulp tends to entrain air. However, it is d~sirable to . effect bleaching at the same eonsistency as for other processing of the pulp te.g. 5-25 percent, preferably 8-15 percent), although successive diluting and thickening stages are to ~e avoided because of the equipment costs and ener~y expense associated therewith.
According to the present invention, a method of treating mechanical pulp is provided that allows reductive bleaching of the pulp in an effective manner at pulp consistencies of about 5-25 percent, and preferably B-15 perrent~ during the entire treating procedure. ~ccording to one aspect of the present invention, the method comprises, or consists essentially of, the following sequential steps~
(a~ Simultaneous pumping and degassing the mechanical pulp. This is preferably accomplished utilizing a ~o fluidizing centrifugal pump. (b) Immediately a~ter after (a), mixing, substantially without air introduction, the mechanical pulp with an effective charge of hydrosulfite bleaching chemical. The mixing preferably is aecomplished in a fluidizing mixer, and the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical includes seques~ering, chelating, and buffering agentsO A
typical charge is 0.5-1.5 percent hydrosulfite. And (c) retaining the pulp at predetermined pH (e.g. about 4.5-6.53 and temperature ~e.g. about 35-80C) conditions for a predetermined period of time ~e.g.
about 0.25-2 hours) to effect the desired bleaching.
By practicing the invention oxidation of the reductive bleaching agent is avoided, a minimal amount of equipment is utilizedt and the processing can be done at the desired consistency range of 8-15 percent.
54~3 Alternativelyl the mixer may be eliminated, and the hydrosulfite added directly to the fluidizing pump. For instance, the chemical may be added to the discharge, or the suction, of the pump.
It is the primary object of the presen~
invention to provide a method for trea~ing mechanical pulp to provide efficient reductive ~leaching thereof.
This and other objects of the invention will become clear from an inspection of the detailed description of the invention and from the appended claims.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
FIGURE 1 is a schematic view illustrating exemplary apparatus utilized in practicing the method according to the present invention;
FIGURE 2 is a schematic detail cross-sectional YieW 0~ the exemplary fluidizing centrifugal pump illustrated in ~IGURE l; and FI~URES 3 and 4 are schema~ic views of two different alternative embodiments of apparatus for practicing the method of the invention.
DETAILED DE~CRIPTION O~ THE DRA~INGS
The method according to the present invention is applicable to mechanical pulps. That term, 2S
commonly used in the industry and as used in the 2S instant ~pecification and claims, encompasses refiner mechanical pulps ~RMP), chemimechanical pulps (CMP), thermomechanical pulps ITMP), chemithermomechanical pulps (CTMP~, and stone groundwood pulps.
~ILZ~54~3 Typically, the mechanical pulp is produced utilizing any desired conventional technique, and then is fed by line 11 to a storage tower 12 or the like.
According to the present invention it is preferable to 5 mount a fluidizing centrifugal pump 13 at the bottom of the storage tower 12, to draw the mechanical pulp downwardly therefrom. The pulp typically has a consistency of about 5 25 percent, and a consistency of 8-15 percent is preferred.
The fluidizing centrifugal pump 13, and an apparatus and method for controlling the head there-from, are illustrated and described in Applic~nt's United States Patent No. 4,435,193 issued March 6, 1984. The pump 13, as illustrated in Figure 2, may 15 comprise an inlet channel 14, a xotor 15 including a plurality o E axially extending blades 16 having an interior openin~ 17 therebetween, and impeller blades 18. The blades 18 rotate in a spiral housing section 19, and gas can pass through openings 21, 22 20 from the housing section 19 to a gas chamber 20, the gas chamber 20 being connected up to a gas discharge line 23.
~ ulp passes from the pump 13 into the discharge line 25/ with a throttling valve 25 dis-25 posed therein. The head of the pump 13 i5 controlled,by adjusting the throttling valve 26 in a manner explained in the aforementioned U.S. Patent No.
4,435,193, so that a variety of heads within a wide xange may be achieved. The valve 26 preferably is 30 controlled, according to the present invention, so that the pump head is maximized, to thereby maximize the degassing action of the pump (i.e. maximizing the amount of air withdrawn through conduit23).
59L~3 After simultaneous pumping and degassing of the mechanical pulp in the pump 13, the pulp is immediately passed to a mixer 28. The pulp must be passed to the mixer 28 so that substantially no air introduction occurs, and the mixer 28 must effect mixing without air introduction. At the mixer, hydrosulfite bleaching chemical is added from line 29 to the mixer, and is thoroughly mixed with the pulp.
- For the practice of the present invention, the mixer 28 preferably comprises a fluidizing mixer such as shown in U.S. Patents 4,0~3,506 and 4,339,206, The amount of hydrosulfite bleaching chemical added to provide an effective charge will vary depending upon the properties of the mechanical pulp, the amount of bleaching desired, etc. Typically, however, the sodium hydrosulfite or zinc hydrosulfite would be added so that the total charge was about 0.5-1.5 percent. Buffering, sequestering, and/or chelating agents, such as sodium tripolyphophate and sodium diethylenetriaminepetaacetate, are also preferably added with the hydrosulfite.
After mixing of the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical into the pulp using mixer 28, the pulp, still at the same consistency (i.e. 5-25 percent), is retained at pred~termined pH and temperature condi-tions for a predetermined period of time to effect the desired bleaching. ~his retention may be merely in conduits passing the pulp onto a further processing station, or may be in a vessel particularly designed for that purpose, such as a conventional up-flow bleaching tower 31. Typical, although not limiting, conditions are: pH, about 4.5-6.5; temperature, about 35-80 C; retention time, about 0.25-2 hours.
~454~3 Since the pulp is essentially completely degassed before mixing with the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical, the bleaching action can be effectively controlled, and the desired amount of bleaching chemical can be added to effect the desired bleachin~. The degassing action is accomplished, according to the present invention, in a simple and effective manner, and with a minimum amount of equipment. The pulp, at a consistency of between 5-25 percent, and preferably 8-15 percent, i5 withdrawn from storage tower 12, si~ultaneously pumped and degassed by fluidizing centrifugal pump 13, the head of which is controlled by valve 26 to maximize degassing action, immediately passed to fluidixing mixer 28 at which the hydrosulfite bleachin~ chemical is added via line 29, and subsequently passed to a conventional retention tower 31, or the like, where it is retained at predetermined pH and temperature conditions for a predetermined period of time to effect desired bleaching.
In the exemplary embodim~nts of the present invention illustrated schematically in FI~URES 3 and 4, the mixer 28 is eliminated, and instead the hydro-sulfite is added directly to the pulp within the pump 13. In the FIGURES 3 and 4 embodiments, the control mechanisms for the pump 13 have not been shown, for clarity of illustration.
In the FIGURE 3 embodiment, the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical is added through line 33 directly to the discharge of the pump 13. At the discharge of the pump 13, the pulp has been efectively degassed, and when the bleaching chemical i5 added through a nozzle, or like other introduction structure, ~ue to the turbulence of the pulp at that point, it will ~s~
become intermixed with the pulp~ and effective bleaching will occur.
In the embodiment illustrated in FIGURE 4, the pump 13 is shown with the axis of rotation of the rotor thereof horizontal. This merely illustrates that the present inven~ion may be practiced irrespective of the orientation (e~gO, horizontal or vertical) of the pump rotor.
In the FIGURE 4 embodiment, the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical is added via :Line 35 at the suction of the pump 13. Again, in~roduction can be accom-plished utilizing a suitable nozzle, or the like.
While the pulp is not completely degassed at this position, adding the bleaching chemical at the suction provides for complete intermixing of the bleaching chemical with the pulp as it is pumped by the pump 13, and the time from ehemical addition at the suction side of the pump, to effective degassing by the pump, is short enough that under most circumstances entrained air will nbt siqnificantly negate the bleaching effects of the hydrosulfite. ~owever, if entrained air does nega~e such effects for a particu-lar pulp, then the embodiments of FIGURES 1 and 3 will be utilized instead of the embodiment of FIGVRE 4.
While the invention has been herein shown and described in what is presently conceived to be the most practical and preferred embodiment thereof, it will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art that many modifications may be made thereof within the scope of the invention, which scope is to be accorded the broadest interpretation of the appended claims so as to enrompass all equivalent methods and procedures.
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1. A method of treating a mechanical pulp having a consistency of about 8-15 percent throughout the treating operation, comprising the steps of sequentially:
(a) simultaneously pumping and degassing the mechanical pulp;
(b) mixing, without substantial air introduction, the mechanical pulp with an effective charge of hydrosulfite bleaching chemical; and (c) retaining the pulp at predetermined pH
and temperature conditions for a predetermined period of time to effect desired bleaching thereof.
(a) simultaneously pumping and degassing the mechanical pulp;
(b) mixing, without substantial air introduction, the mechanical pulp with an effective charge of hydrosulfite bleaching chemical; and (c) retaining the pulp at predetermined pH
and temperature conditions for a predetermined period of time to effect desired bleaching thereof.
2. A method as receited in claim 1 wherein the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical added in step (b) includes buffering, chelating, and sequestering agents.
3. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein step (b) is practiced by adding sufficient hydrosulfite bleaching chemical charge so that the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical comprises about 0.5-1.5 percent.
4. A method as recited in claim 3 wherein step (c) is practiced by maintaining the pH at about 4.5-6.5, and maintaining the temperature at about 35-80°C, and wherein the predetermined time period is about 0.25-2 hours.
5. A method as receited in claim 1 wherein step (a) is practiced utilizing a fluidizing pump, and by controlling the head of the pump so that substantially complete degassification of the pulp occurs.
6. A method as recited in claim 5 wherein controlling the head of the pump is practiced by throttling the pulp output from the pump.
7. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein step (b) is practiced immediately after step (a); and wherein step (a) is practiced utilizing a fluidizing pump, and step (b) is practiced utilizing a fluidizing mixer separate and distinct from the pump.
8. A method as recited in claim 7 wherein step (c) is practiced by feeding the pulp to an upflow bleaching tower after it passes through the fluidizing mixer.
9. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein steps (a) and (b) are practiced utilizing a fluidizing pump and wherein the chemical is added to the discharge of the pump.
10. A method as recited in claim 1 wherein steps (a) and (b) are practiced utilizing a fluidizing pump, and wherein the chemical is added to the suction of the pump.
11. A method of treating a mechanical pulp having a consistency of about 8-15 percent throughout the treating operation, and utilizing a centrifugal pump and a fluidizing mixer, comprising the steps of sequentially:
(a) feeding the mechanical pulp to the centrifugal pump;
(b) controlling the head of the pump by throttling the pulp discharge from the pump, to effect substantially maximum degassing of the pulp while it is being pumped;
(c) feeding the discharge from the pump, substantially without air introduction, to the fluidizing mixer;
(d) adding an effective charge of hydrosulfite bleaching chemical to the pulp in the fluidizing mixer; and (e) retaining the pulp at predetermined pH
and temperature conditions for a predetermined period of time to effect desired bleaching thereof.
(a) feeding the mechanical pulp to the centrifugal pump;
(b) controlling the head of the pump by throttling the pulp discharge from the pump, to effect substantially maximum degassing of the pulp while it is being pumped;
(c) feeding the discharge from the pump, substantially without air introduction, to the fluidizing mixer;
(d) adding an effective charge of hydrosulfite bleaching chemical to the pulp in the fluidizing mixer; and (e) retaining the pulp at predetermined pH
and temperature conditions for a predetermined period of time to effect desired bleaching thereof.
12. A method as recited in claim 11 wherein the mechanical pulp is selected from the group consisting essentially of CTMP, TMP, CMP, and stone groundwood.
13. A method as recited in claim 11 wherein step (e) is practiced by: feeding the pulp to an up-flow bleaching tower after it passes through the fluidizing mixer; and by maintaining the pH at about 4.5-6.5, maintaining the temperature at about 35-80°C, and wherein the predetermined time period is about 0.25-2 hours; and wherein step (d) is practiced by adding sufficient hydrosulfite bleaching chemical charge so that the hydrosulfite bleaching chemical comprises about 0.5-1.5 percent.
14. A method of treating a chemical pulp having a consistency of about 8-15% throughout the treating operation, and utilizing a fluidizing pump, comprising the steps of:
(a) feeding the mechanical pump to the fluidizing pump;
(b) controlling the head of the pump by throttling the pump discharge from the pump, to effect degassing of the pulp while it is being pumped;
(c) adding an effective charge of hydrosulfite bleaching chemical directly to the pulp in the pump, without air introduction; and (d) retaining the pulp at predetermined pH
and temperature conditions for a predetermined period of time to effect desired bleaching thereof.
(a) feeding the mechanical pump to the fluidizing pump;
(b) controlling the head of the pump by throttling the pump discharge from the pump, to effect degassing of the pulp while it is being pumped;
(c) adding an effective charge of hydrosulfite bleaching chemical directly to the pulp in the pump, without air introduction; and (d) retaining the pulp at predetermined pH
and temperature conditions for a predetermined period of time to effect desired bleaching thereof.
15. A method as recited in claim 14 wherein step (c) is practiced by adding the chemical to the discharge of the pump.
16. A method as recited in claim 14 wherein step (c) is practiced by adding the chemical to the suction of the pump.
17. A method as recited in claim 14 wherein the mechanical pulp is selected from the group consisting essentially of CTMP, TMP, CMP, and stone groundwood.
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