CA2235987A1 - A method and equipment for manufacturing predetermined low bark content wood chips and a high bark content fuel fraction from wood chips with bark attached - Google Patents

A method and equipment for manufacturing predetermined low bark content wood chips and a high bark content fuel fraction from wood chips with bark attached Download PDF

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CA2235987A1
CA2235987A1 CA 2235987 CA2235987A CA2235987A1 CA 2235987 A1 CA2235987 A1 CA 2235987A1 CA 2235987 CA2235987 CA 2235987 CA 2235987 A CA2235987 A CA 2235987A CA 2235987 A1 CA2235987 A1 CA 2235987A1
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The object of the invention is a method and equipment manufacturing predetermined low bark content wood chips and a high bark content fuel fraction from wood chips with bark attached, which method includes the following stages: mechanical bark removal treatment (7), in which the bark is removed from the chips and their size is reduced; and pre-cleaning (6, 9, 11) of the flow of chips with bark attached; and final cleaning of the aforesaid wood chip flow from the pre-cleaning, with the aid of an optical separator (10). Before the mechanical bark removal process (7) a thin fraction of the chips is sieved out of the flow of wood chips, and then bypasses the mechanical process (7), which improves the yield and the piece size distribution.

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CA 0223S987 l998-04-27 W O 97/16590 PCTAFI9~

A hl~il~UL~ AND ~;Q-Il~r4ENT FOR M~ ACTURING PR-.:V:-~ rT1~1;!n LOW BARK
CO~L~N1 WOOD CHIPS AND A HIGH BARR CON1~N1 FUEL FRACTION FROM
WOOD CHIPS WITH BARK AT~

The object of the invention is a method and equipment for manufacturing predetermined low bark content wood chips and a high bark content fuel fraction from wood chips with bark attached, which method incudes the following stages:
- a mechanical bark removal process, - pre-cleaning of wood chips with bark attached, and - the final cleaning of the flow of wood chips, with the aid of an optical separator.

The above-mentioned type of manufacturing method is known from the international patent publication W0 93/25324. According to this, the wood chips with bark attached are ground initially either with a special plate grinder, or with a vibrating cone crusher, when the bark separates from the wood chips and the size of the bark particles ~;m;n jshes By means of this, the bark can be separated more easily during later separation stages. A grinder or a vibrating cone crusher is followed by pneumatic separation, especially to separate outer birch bark, after which sawdust is removed using a vibrating sieve. The bark content has now dropped to considerably less than 10 ~, when the ~inal cleaning can be carried out using an optical sorter. According to the patent, two optical sorters are used in series, but can, however, be replaced by a single more powerful device. The accepted fraction ~rom the second optical sorter is led to grinding and the reject to the fuel fraction.
Equipment that is essentially that described by the application has been built in Kankaanpaa in Finland, the supplier being BMH
Wood Technology Oy. In the commercial equipment, a magnetic separator and a pneumatic separator are used in the pre-cleaning to separate metal scrap and stones. Sawdust is removed from the commercial equipment before grinding, and after CA 0223~987 1998-04-27 WO97/16590 PCT~I96/00586 grinding the vibrating sieve has been replaced by a so-called pocket-roll sieve ( a roller sieve developed especially ~or sieving sawdust). In the commercial equipment, a good yield is achieved with a bark content of about 1 ~, which is sufficiently clean for the manu~acture of certain grades of cellulose. The yield varies between 60 - 70 ~, depending on the species of timber and other factors. If cleaner chips are wanted, the yield drops, and correspondingly improves with a poorer level of cleanliness.

The intention o~ this invention is to achieve a better yield than previously at each corresponding level of cleanliness. The characteristic features o~ the method according to the invention are presented in the accompanying Patent Claim 1 and the features of corresponding equipment are presented in Patent Claim 8. The distribution values of the wood chip fractions according to the accompanying table are, to a great extent, the point of departure of the invention:

Sieve gap Fraction Clean Wood Bark % of mm . -;~;~ wood chips wood in sieve chips in with bark chips % ~raction with bark 0 5,03 2 16,73 79,03 1,96 3,61 4 37,94 89,98 2,72 8,57 6 25,37 85,54 7,15 16,78 8 8,01 74,54 14,83 19,98 6,92 69,00 25,51 18,30 It is surprising, that in the smallest fractions (sieve gap 4 mm, or less), there is not much bark attached to the chips, whereas in chips above this size the proportion o~ chips with bark attached is considerable. Because mechanical processing in any event reduces the size of the wood chips across the board, CA 0223~987 1998-04-27 W O 97/16590 PCTAF196/~0586 it is advantageous to separate this fairly clean part of the wood chips and have it bypass the mechanical processing. There is bark as such even in the smallest chips, but is it loose, and most of it leaves during the separation of the sawdust, which has been moved so that it takes place after the mechanical processing.

In what follows, the invention is illustrated by reference to the accompanying Figures, which show schematically one plant o according to the invention and the method used in it.

Figure 1 shows the method according to the invention, as a block diagram.
Figure 2 shows equipment according to the invention, as a plant diagram.

In the diagram in Figure 1, the wood chips with bark attached can be considered as having been obtained by conventional methods, using a known cutter. In the first stage of processing, the wood chips are cleaned in pre-separation 3, 4, 5, which comprises among, other things, magnetic devices for removing scrap iron and a pneumatic separator 4, 4' ~or removing stones and sand. In pre-separation, oversize wood chips are separated by means of disc sieve 5, and in practice are most advantageously led to the fuel ~raction, but if necessary they can be led, for example, to a crusher and then back to pre-separation. The fraction accepted in pre-separation 3, 4, 5 is led to thickness sieving 6, which is intended to separate the thin wood chip fraction, generally less than 6 mm, from the part of the flow o~ wood chips travelling through the thickness sieve. This part is led to the ~ollowing stage, i.e.
past mechanical bark separation 7. Mechanical bark separation can take place by means o~ either a plate grinder, a crusher, or in a blade ring chipper, which has been shown to be the most advantageous, because it does not defibrate the wood material unnecessarily.

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The mechanically processed fraction, together with the smaller fraction obtained from the bypass line, is led to pocket-roll sieve 9, which effectively removes the sawdust from the flow of material. After this, the accepted fraction is led to a pneumatic separator, to remove light birch bark, leaves, needles, and other easily airborne particles from the flow of material. After this, the pre-cleaned wood chips already have a bark content of less than 10 ~, when it can be led to optical sorter 10, from which wood chips with a bark content of about o 1 ~ can be obtained, even at a large yield. Reject from the optical sorter is led through selection 15 in a regulated manner either to the fuel fraction, or back to mechanical processing. In order to prevent a so-called 'mad cycle', 20 -100 ~ is always led to the fuel fraction, and only 80 - 0 ~ is led to the mechanical processing. Certain species of timber or other conditions will mean that there is not necessarily any benefit from mechanical processing, in which case it is better to lead the reject from the optical sorter directly to the fuel fraction.
The plant diagram, Figure 2, shows cutter 1 and reception funnel 2, in which the wood chips are collected, or into which wood chips from external sources are poured. From here the flow o~ wood chips is led through magnetic separator 3 to disc sieve 5. Between these there is a pneumatic separator 4', which removes stones and a second pneumatic separator 4, which sucks light birch bark, leaves, and fine dust into the airflow, see also stone store 3.1. A disc sieve 5 removes oversized pieces from the wood chips, which are led to the fuel fraction 13, together with reject from the pneumatic separator. Beneath the disc sieve there is thickness sieve 6, which separates the smallest fraction and the sawdust in it, these being led to mechanical bark separation, going past grinder 7, whereas the rest of this part is led to grinder 7. Experiments have, however, shown that bark can be e~:Eectively separated by cutting the chips. The mechanically processed chip fraction CA 0223~987 1998-04-27 W O 97/16590 PCTAFI9G/~~C586 obtained from the plate grinder and the thin fraction obtained from the bypass line 8 are led to the Pocket-Roll sieve 9, which removes sawdust and fine bark material from the flow of chips. After the Pocket-Roll sieve, there is a pneumatic separator 11, which removes light birch bark, leaves, needles, and other easily airborne material.

The accepted fraction is led to optical sorter 10, from which a good yield of good quality cellulose wood chips 12 are o obtained. The reject is led through selection member 15 either to the fuel fraction 13 or to the grinder 7. Using selection member 15, 0 - 100 ~ can be taken from the flow of materials into the fuel fraction. It is advantageous to take at least 20 ~, to prevent a so-called 'mad cycle' in the process. With certain grades of wood chips part of the material would remain to circulate continuously through the process, unless part of the reject is removed to the fuel fraction. All of the removed rejects are led in the Figure to fuel fraction 13, by means of conveyor 16.
Because the optical sorter uses a pneumatic conveyor, the reject flow is not homogeneous. A divider plate 18 set in the exit area can separate the part with the greatest bark content from the rest of the reject, it then being advantageously led directly to the fuel fraction with the aid of conveyor 19. The figure shows this alternative by broken lines.

The pulverization of the wood is reduced with the aid of the method according to the invention, which increases the cellulose chip yield from the previous yield by 5 - 10 percentage units, while share of the fraction of cellulose chips remaining in the 13 mm particle size perforated sieve increases substantially (by 15 - 35 percentage units).

In equipment according to the invention, a thickness sieve is used to separate the fraction with the desired value, 4 - 8 mm, CA 0223~987 1998-04-27 W O 97/16S9O PCT~FI9~

for example, thinner than 6 mm, which is led past the barking separation and the thicker wood chips are fed to the mechanical bark separation. These fractions are combined and the sawdust and light birch bark is sieved out and sorted optically, the accepted fraction of which is clean wood chips and the reject is returned to mechanical bark separation, in which the bark is ground to a smaller size, so that it can be distinguished in the sawdust discharge.

o Improvement of the cellulose wood chip yield by 5 percentage units improves the profitability of the plant by about FIM
20/m3, which represents FIM 3 000 000 p.a. in a plant producing 150 000 m3 p.a.. The effect of the chip size of cellulose wood chips on the sales price varies from case to cases, but at its greatest it too is about FIM 25/m3. Together these correspond, in magnitude, to the operating and capital costs of the plant, so that the economy of the method improves substantially.

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1. A method for manufacturing predetermined low bark content wood chips (12) and a high bark content fuel fraction (13) from wood chips with bark attached, which method includes the following stages:
- mechanical bark removal treatment (7), in which the bark is removed from the chips and their size is reduced, and - precleaning (6, 9, 11) of the flow of chips with bark attached, into a flow of chips with a bark content of less than 10 % and high bark content rejects, with the aid of pneumatic and mechanical sieving, - final cleaning of the aforesaid wood chip flow from the per-cleaning, with the aid of an optical separator (10), to create low bark content wood chips (12) and a fraction with a higher bark content, - collection of the rejects leaving the process, to create the aforementioned high bark content fuel fraction, characterized in that before the aforesaid mechanical bark removal process (7) a predetermined thin fraction of the chips, for example, pieces less than 6 mm, is sieved (6) out of the flow of wood chips, and then bypasses the aforesaid debarking process (7).
2. A method according to Claim 1, characterized in that the mechanical bark removal process (7) takes place by means of a grinder, press-rollers, or a crusher.
3. A method according to Claim 1, characterized in that the mechanical bark removal takes place using a blade ring chipper, which cuts the wood chips into smaller pieces, while removing the bark.
4. A method according to Claim 1, characterized in that 20 - 100 % of the aforementioned fraction with a higher bark content obtained from the optical separator (10) is directed to the fuel fraction (13), and correspondingly 80 - 0 % is returned to the mechanical bark removal process (7).
5. A method according to Claim 4, characterized in that the optical separator includes a pneumatic conveyor and a division plate (18), by means of which the flow of chips is divided first into the aforesaid wood chips with a low bark content and wood chips with a higher bark content and further the latter part is divided with the aid of the division plate (18) directly into a fuel fraction and the aforesaid part that is returned.
6. A method according to Claim 1, characterized in that it includes pre-separation (5) before the aforesaid thickness sieving (6), in which the oversized wood chips, stones, and metals are removed from the wood chips with bark attached.
7. A method according to one of Claims 1 - 5, characterized in that the flow of wood chips from the mechanical bark removal process (7) and the aforesaid thin chip fraction from the thickness sieving (6) are sieved using a mechanical sieve (9), to remove sawdust as a third reject and using a pneumatic separator (11) to remove light birch bark, leaves, needles, and other airborne material as a fourth reject.
8. Equipment for manufacturing wood chips with a low bark content from wood chips with bark attached, which equipment includes mechanical bark removal devices (7) and pre-separation devices consisting of a mechanical and a pneumatic separator (9, 11) and an optical sorter (10), characterized in that the equipment includes a wood chip thickness sieve (6) located before the mechanical bark removal devices (7) and a correction line (8) connected to the exit of the thin fraction obtained, by means of which the thin fraction is taken past the mechanical bark removal devices (7) to the pre-cleaning devices (9, 11).
9. Equipment according to Claim 7, characterized in that the mechanical bark removal devices (7) consist of one or more blade ring chippers, a grinder (7), a press roller, or a crusher.
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FI955213A FI98277C (en) 1995-11-01 1995-11-01 A method for producing low-bark wood chips from bark wood chips and corresponding equipment
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