NZ204019A - Heat treatment of pulp fibres - Google Patents
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- D—TEXTILES; PAPER
- D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
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- D21C9/00—After-treatment of cellulose pulp, e.g. of wood pulp, or cotton linters ; Treatment of dilute or dewatered pulp or process improvement taking place after obtaining the raw cellulosic material and not provided for elsewhere
- D21C9/001—Modification of pulp properties
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Description
New Zealand Paient Spedficaiion for Paient Number £04019
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Publication Date: .... J1.Q, ?EP 1986
P.O. Journal, No:
NEW ZEALAND PATENTS ACT, 1953
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COMPLETE SPECIFICATION PROCESS FOR IMPROVING AND RETAINING PULP PROPERTIES
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3. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION (i) Field of the Invention
This invention relates to a process for treating lignocellulosic pulp fibres of either softwoods or hardwoods to provide pulps of improved properties. In particular this invention is directed to the treatment of mechanical pulps and high-yield chemical pulps to improve and retain the properties of such pulps. (ii) Description of the Prior Art
Newsprint traditionally has been manufactured from a furnish consisting of a mixture of a mechanical pulp and a chemical pulp. Mechanical pulp is used because it imparts certain desired properties to the furnish: namely, its high light scattering coefficient contributes to paper opacity and allows the use of a thinner sheet; its high oil absorbency improves ink acceptance during printing.
Chemical pulps are used because they impart properties to the furnish which improve its run-nability. Runnability refers to properties which allow the wet web to be transported at high speed through the forming, pressing and drying sections of a paper-machine and allows the dried paper sheet to be reeled and printed in an acceptable manner. Runnability contributes to papermachine and pressroom efficiency.
It is believed that improved runnability in chemical pulp is due to high wet-web strength and drainage rate. Wet and dry stretch are important because they are believed to contribute to preventing concentrations of stress around paper defects, thereby minimizing
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breaks. High drainage rates lower the water content and are believed to yield a less fragile web.
Mechanical pulps including stone groundwood (SG) and pressurized stone groundwood (PSG) can be made to provide wet stretch but only at the expense of poor drainage. Higher quality mechanical pulps are obtained by manufacture in open discharge refiners, to produce refiner mechanical pulp (RMP) and in pressurized thermomechanical pulp (TMP). Still further upgraded mechanical pulps were provided by chemical pretreatment of the wood chips prior to refining to provide chemi-mechanical pulp (CMP or CTMP).
U.S. Patent 3,446,699 issued May 27, 1965 to Asplund et al. provided a method for producing mechanical and chemimechanical or semichemical pulps from lignocellulose-containing material, in order to provide what was alleged to be improved quality of the fibres with improved defibration.
U.S. Patent 3,558,428 issued Jan. 26, 1971 to Asplund et al. provided a method for manufacturing chemimechanical pulps involving heating and defibrating the same in an atmosphere of vapour at elevated temperatures and under corresponding pressure of the impregnated chips to provide a more rapid and effective impregnation.
U.S. Patent 4,116,758 issued Sept. 26, 1978 to M.J. Ford provided a process for producing high-yield chemimechanical pulps from woody lignocellulose material by treatment with an aqueous solution of a mixture of sulfite and bisulfite, to provide a pulp which can
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be readily defibered by customary mechanical means to provide a pulp having excellent strength characteristics.
Today's papermaker is faced with the problems of decreasing forest resources, an increasing demand for paper products and stringent environmental laws. Low-yield chemical pulps, e.g. sulphite and kraft pulps, contribute highly to such problems.
The fibres of low-yield chemical pulps are known for their desirable dry- and wet-web strength properties. Observations of low-yield chemical fibres in a formed paper sheet indicate that these tend to have a kink and curl which is said to contribute, in an advantageous way, to the papermachine runnability and to certain physical properties. Mechanical pulps lack the desirable strength properties to replace, in whole or in part, low-yield chemical pulps, e.g. kraft or sulphite pulps, in linerboard, newsprint, tissue, printing grades and coated-base grade of paper. Consequently, it has been an aim of the art to improve the physical properties of mechanical and high-yield chemical pulps, so that such improved pulps would be used to replace low-yield chemical pulps.
A number of mechanical devices have been built to produce curled chemical and mechanical fibres in order to improve certain physical properties. Two such mechanical fibre-curling devices are disclosed in H.S. Hill, U.S. Pat. 2,516,384 and E.F. Erikson U.S. Pat. 3,054,532.
H.S. Hill et al. in Tappi, Vol. 33, N.o. 1, pp.
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36-44, 1950, described a "Curlator" designed to produce curled fibres. The process consisted of rolling fibres into bundles at a consistency of around 15%-35%, followed by dispersion. Advantages claimed were higher wet-web stretch, improved drainage, and higher tear strength and stretch of the finished product. These advantages were at the expense of certain other properties, notably tensile strength.
W.B. West in Tappi, Vol. 47, No. 6, pp. 313-317, 1964, describes high consistency disc refining to produce the same action.
D.H. Page in Pulp Paper Mag. Canada, Vol. 67, No. 1, pp. T2-12, 1966, showed that the curl introduced was both at a gross level and at a fine level which he called "microcompressions". Both types of curl were advantageous.
J.H. De Grace and D.H. Page in Tappi, Vol. 59, No. 7, pp. 98-101, 1976, showed that curl could be produced adventitiously during bleaching of pulps, by the mechanical action of pumps and stirrers at high consistency.
R.P. Kibblewhite and D. Brookes in Appita, Vol. 28, No. 4, pp. 227-231, 1975, claimed that this adventitious curl could have advantages for practical runnability of papermachines.
High-consistency mechanical defibration of wood chips is known to produce curled, kinked and twisted fibres. Kinked fibres are known to be particularly effective in developing extensibility in wet webs if the kinks are set in position so that they survive the
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action of pumps and agitators at low consistency and retain their kinked and curled state in the formed sheet. This ensures enhancement of the wet-web stretch and certain other physical properties.
A number of chemical treatment methods have been reported to enhance and retain fibre curl in a refined pulp. In one, Canadian Patent No. 1,102,969 issued June 16, 1981 to A.J. Kerr et al., improvement in tearing strength of the pulp is alleged by the treatment of delignified lignocellulosic or cellulose pulp derived from a chemical, semichemical or chemimechanical pulping process at a pressure of at least one atmosphere,
with sufficient gaseous ammonia to be taken up by moist pulp in an amount greater than 3% by weight to weight of oven dried pulp.
There is also known a method of treatment of mechanical wood pulp wherein the pulp is cooked with aqueous sodium sulphite solution containing sufficient alkali to maintain a pH greater than about 3 during the cooking. The cooking was effected at an elevated temperature for a time sufficient to cause reaction with the pulp and to increase the drainage and wet stretch thereof, but for a time insufficient to cause substantial dissolution of liquor from the pulp, and insufficient to result in a pulp yield below about 90%. A minimum concentration of sodium sulphite was 1% since, below 1% sodium sulphite improvements were said to be too small to justify the expense of treatment.
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4. DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION
During the process of papermaking, most of the curl in both high-consistency refined mechanical and high-yield sulphite pulp is lost in the subsequent steps of handling at low consistency and high temperatures. This is also taught in the article by H.W.H. Jones in Pulp Paper Mag. Canada, Vol. 67, No. 6, pp. T283-291, 1966. Jones showed that when mechanical pulp fibres which are curled during high consistency refining are subjected to mild mechanical action in dilute suspension at a temperature of around 70 °C the curl tends to be removed. The increased tensile and burst strengths produced by removal of curl was seen as advantageous. Thus, curl in such pulps is normally removed in papermachine operation, since during practical papermaking, pulps are always subjected to mild mechanical action in dilute suspension at temperatures of the order of 70°C.
High-yield and ultra high-yield sulphite pulps are used as reinforcing pulps for manufacture of newsprint and other groundwood-containing papers. Although they may be subjected to high-consistency refining, their fibres are in practice substantially straight because the curl introduced in high-consistency refining is lost in subsequent handling.
Accordingly an object of one aspect of this invention is to provide a process for imparting and rendering permanent, the physical properties of such mechanical and high-yield chemical pulps in order to improve their papermachine .runnability and pressroom effici-
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ency.
An object of yet another aspect of this invention is to provide a non-chemical method of treating higher-yield pulps to improve and retain certain physical properties so that the pulp can be used to replace in whole or in part, the low-yield chemical pulps.
It is an object of another aspect of the present invention, to render permanent, by non-chemical means,
the curl imparted to the fibres of mechanically treated, mechanical and high-yield chemical pulps.
The mechanical pulps or high-yield chemical pulps included within the ambit of this invention can be produced by either mechanical defibration of wood, e.g.
in stone groundwood (SG), pressurized stone groundwood
(PSG), refiner mechanical pulp (RMP) and thermomechani-
cal pulp (TMP) production or by mechanical defibration,
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at high consistency of at least 9%, followed or preceded by a chemical treatment of wood chips and pulps e.g. in the production of ultra-high-yield sulphite pulps (UHYS, yields in the range 100-85%), high-yield sulphite pulps (HYSf,
yields in the range 85-65%), chemi-thermomechanical (CTMP), high-yield chemimechanical (CMP), interstage thermomechanical and chemically post-treated mechanical pulp (MPC) or thermomechanical pulps (TMPC).
By a broad aspect of this invention, a method is provided for treating pulps, that have already been curled by mechanical action, viiich method comprises: subjecting the pulp to a, heat treatment while the pulp is at a consis tency of at least 5% in the form of nodules or entangled mass, thereby ^^
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to render the curl permanent to subsequent mechanical action.
By another aspect of this invention, a method is provided for treating high-yield or mechanical pulps, that have already been curled by a mechanical action at a consistency of at least 9%, which method comprises: subjecting the pulp to a heat treatment at a temperature of at least 100°C, while the pulp is at a consistency of at least 15% thereby to render the curl permanent to subsequent mechanical action.
By yet another aspect of this invention, a method is provided for treating high-yield or mechanical pulps, that have already been curled by a mechanical action at a consistency of at least 9%, which method comprises: subjecting the pulp to a heat treatment at a temperature of 100°C-170 °C for a time varying between 60 minutes and 2 minutes, while the pulp is at a consistency of 15%
to 35%, thereby to render the curl permanent to subsequent mechanical action.
The present invention in its broad aspects is a method which follows the mechanical action that has already made the fibres curly in either mechanical, ultra high-yield or high-yield pulps. Such a mechanical action generally takes place at a consistency of at least 9%, say 15%-35%, and may typically be a disc refining action, e.g. as is generally used in pulp manufacture.
The method of aspects of this invention thus consists of a simple heat treatment of the pulp in the presence of water while it is retained in the form of
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nodules or entangled mass at a consistency of at least 5%. The process may involve temperatures above 100"C in which case a pressure vessel is required-
While the invention is not to be limited to any theory, it is believed that the method sets the curl in place either by relief of stresses in the fibre or by a cross-linking mechanism, so that upon subsequent processing during papermaking, the fibres retain their curled form.
This curled form has particular advantages for the properties of the wet web, so that the runnability of the papermachine is improved. In addition, the toughness of the finished product is increased.
In general terms, the method begins with a pulp that has been converted to the curly state by mechanical action at a consistency of at least 9%, and in which the fibres are held in a curly state in the form of nodules or entangled mass. The pulp may be either purely mechanical e.g. stone groundwood, pressurized stone ground-wood, refiner mechanical, thermomechanical, or a chemimechanical pulp such as ultra high-yield sulphite pulp or high-yield sulphite pulp. Conversion to a curly state is generally achieved naturally in the refining action that is normally used for refiner mechanical, thermomechanical and ultra high-yield sulphite pulp. For stone groundwood, pressurized stone groundwood and high-yield sulphite pulp, it would be necessary to add to the normal processing a step that curls the fibres. This may be for example by use of the "Curlator" or disc refining at a consistency of at least 9%, or
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by use of the "Frotapulper" (E.F. Erikson, U.S. Pat.
3,054,532) .
The pulp fibres may be lignocellulosic fibres produced by mechanical defibration, or by refining, or by refining in a disc refiner at a consistency of at least 9%, or'
by mechanical defibration at a wood chip consistency of at least 9%, or by mechanical defibration at a wood chip consistency of at least 9% followed or preceded by a chemical treatment, or by a single stage refining, or after two successive refinings, or between two successive refinings.
They may alternatively be pulp fibres commercially produced under the designation of refiner mechanical pulp, pressurized refiner mechanical pump and thermo-mecha.nical pulp either from a single stage or two-stage refining, or commercially produced under the designation of ultra high-yield pulps, high-yield pulpsj chemi-thermomechanical pulps, high yield chemimechanical pulps, interstage thermomechanical pulps and chemically post-treated mechanical or thermomechanical pulps, or may be part of the.furnish, e.g. the refined rejects in mechanical pulp production or may be whole pulps.
consistency of at least 5%, preferably from 15 to 35% in the form of nodules or entangled mass and subjecting it to heat treatment without appreciable drying of the pulp. The temperature and duration of the heat treatment controls the extent to which the curl in the fibres is rendered permanent, and this may be adjusted to match the advantages sought.
The method consists of taking the curled pulp at
This method may be carried out as a batch method
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in a digester or as a continuous method through a steaming tube maintained at high pressure.
The method may also include the step of incorporating a brightening agent during heat treatment, to upgrade the brightness while retaining the improved pulp properties; or the subsequent steps of brightening or bleaching sequences to upgrade the brightness of the pulps while maintaining the improved pulp properties; or indeed may be carried out in brightened pulps thereby also to maintain adequate brightness after heat treatment.
Nowhere in the prior art is there disclosed a process in which a separate and sole heat treatment at high consistency and high temperatures is given to curled fibres in order to achieve the desired changes in the properties of the wood pulp being treated.
Among the advantages of the method of aspects of this invention in setting in fibre curl in high-yield pulps and mechanical pulps is to provide a means of controlling pulp properties in order to impart high wet-web stretch, work-to-rupture and increased drainage rates. In the case of high-yield pulps, in addition to the above wet-web properties, higher dry-sheet tear strength and stretch are also obtained.
Thus, by this invention, it has been discovered that when lignocellulosic pulp fibres, that have already been made curly, are heat treated at (a) consistencies from 10% to 35%, (b) temperatures from 100°C to 170°C using steam at corresponding pressures of 5 psig to 105 psig, (c) for a period of time of from 2
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minutes to 60 minutes, fibre curl permanently sets in place, and the curl is made resistant to removal in subsequent mechanical action experienced by fibres in the papermaking process. The method of aspects of this invention improves drainage, wet-web stretch, wet-web work-to-rupture and dry-sheet tear strength and stretch.
In one variant, the method is to take a pulp that has been made curly by refining at a consistency of frcsn 20 to 35%, and to set in the curl (and perhaps microcompressions) by subjecting it at a consistency of at least 5% to an elevated temperature (e.g. 110°C - 160°C) for a brief time (e.g. 2 minutes to 1 hour). This set-in curl is resistant to removal by the hot disintegration experienced during papermaking. The advantages of such a pulp are: 1. higher wet-web stretch; 2. higher tearing strength; and 3. better drainage.
The method may be a batch process, i.e. if the pulp is placed in a pressure vessel e.g. a closed reaction vessel or digester, or it may be a continuous process e.g. through a steaming tube maintaining high pressures.
The temperature and duration of the heat treatment controls the extent to which the curl in the fibres is rendered permanent, and this may be adjusted to match the advantages sought. Preferred conditions are as follows: temperatures of from above 100°Cto 170°C with corresponding steam pressures of 5 psig to 105 psig and for periods from 2 minutes to 60 minutes.
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tion has been observed to render fibre curl permanent including fibre twists, kinks and microcompressions.
Either during or after completion of the heat treatment the pulp may then be brightened in accordance with any of the well-known conventional brightening sequences.
In general, pulp fibres obtained after refining at high consistency are very curly. For mechanical pulps, if a mild disintegration treatment at room temperature is made on these pulps, the fibres retain substantially their curliness so as to produce wet webs with high wet-web stretch, work-to-rupture and fast drainage. However, in the papermaking process, pulps receive mechanical action at high temperatures and low consistencies so that their curliness is lost. It is believed that pulps which are given standard hot disintegration treatment in the laboratory at low consistency experience similar conditions during which the curliness is lost and the wet-web properties deteriorate.
The following examples are given to illustrate more clearly various embodiments of the invention.
In the examples, all percentages are percentages by weight.
In the following examples, the tests were conducted in the following standard way.
Wet-web results were obtained following the procedure described by R.S. Seth, M.C. Barbe, J.C.R. Williams and D.H. Page in Tappi, Vol. 65, No. 3, pp. 135-138, 1982.
Wet-web percent solids, tensile strength, stretch and work-to-rupture were obtained on webs prepared by
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applying 0.7 "kPa and 103 kPa wet-pressing pressures.
The percent stretch-to-break was obtained for wet-webs pressed so as to give a breaking length of 100 meters. It is considered that this value is a measure of the "toughness" of the wet-web and is an indication of the runnability of the pulp on a papermachine.
Changes in drainage rates are given by the measure of Canadian Standard Freeness.
Hot disintegration was done according to the procedure of C.W. Skeet and R.S. Allan in Pulp Paper Mag. Canada, Vol. 69, No. 8, pp. T222-224, April 19,1968.
The extent of fibre curliness has been quantified by an Image Analysis method as described by B.D. Jordan and D.H. Page in the Proceedings of the TAPPI International Paper Physics Conference, Harrison Hot Springs, B.C. (1979). High values of curl indices reflect curlier fibres.
In the examples following, two parameters have been used to follow the progress of the heat treatment effect.
First the curliness of the fibres has been measured, after a standard hot disintegration treatment at low consistency, that simulates the subsequent treatment that the pulp will receive in the papermaking process.
Secondly, the advantage of this new pulp (after hot disintegration) has been determined in terms of the extensibility (percent stretch-to-break) of wet webs prepared from the pulp pressed so as to give a breaking length of 100 metres. It is considered that this value
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is a measure of the "toughness" of the wet sheet, and is an indication of the runnability of the pulp on a papermachine.
EXAMPLE 1
This example is intended to illustrate that when pulp fibres are given a heat treatment, as described for aspects of this invention, they remain curly even after standard hot disintegration.
In this example pulp fibres were treated in a digester at 150®C and at about 22% consistency for approximately 60 minutes.
The results obtained after the above treatments on a variety of mechanical, chemimechanical and chemical wood pulp fibres are reproduced below in Table I.
From the results, it is seen that the heat treatment produces the desired effects, on wet-web stretch and drainage, for all the lignocellulosic pulp fibres, e.g., mechanical pulp and high-yield sulphite pulp fibres. The treatment has no effect on cellulosic pulp fibres which contain little or no lignin.
EXAMPLE 2
This example illustrates the effect of the temperature of the treatment.
Lignocellulosic pulp fibres were treated in a digester at temperatures of 110, 130, 150 and 170 °C for 60 minutes and at approximately 22% consistency. The results reproduced in Table II were obtained after a standard hot disintegration.
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THE EFFECT OF THE HEAT TREATMENT (15Q°C, 22Z CONSISTENCY, 60 MINUTES) ON A VARIETY OF. MECHANICAL, CHEMI-MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL WOOD PULP FIBRES
Pulp and Fibre Properties Curl Index CSF (ml)
SG'
Untreated 0.180 61
PSG
Heat Treated
0.204 60
Untreated 0.163 48
RMP
Heat Treated
0.203 47
Untreated 0.143 159
TOP
Heat Treated
0.258 248
Untreated 0.121 1B1
Heat Treated
0.239 287
TMPC1' (94Z yield)
Heat
Untreated Treated 0.182 0.229 208 221
Het-Web Properties
Solids (Z) 0.7 kPa Tensile (m)
Stretch (%)
Work to Rupture (mJ/g)
Sdllds (Z)
103 kPa Tensile (m)
Stretch (Z)
Work to Rupture (mJ/g)
Wet-Web Stretch at
100 m Breaking Length (Z)
17.8 47.7
7.05 39.7
.2 96.1 7.13 77.4
6.29
14.5 48.8 11.7 62.7
.4 101
9.45 110
8.49
.7 63.7 8.91 70.4
24.4 133
8.26 131
8.16
14.7 65.3
12.8 105
.5 124 11.3 177
11.4
18.3 60.6
.05 38.3
24.8 117 4.85 73.5
4.50
19.2 48.0
11.3 58.3
24.2 80.5
9.19
84.3
7.64
18.9
91.5 6.32
69.0
.6 161
4.82 90.8
.90
18.4
60.5
18.6 124
22.5 105 14.9
201
16.9
.8 122
8.83 129
27.2 207
.68 136
7.38
17.1 74.1 20.B 203
22.8 125
16.3 272
18.2
^ Commercial samples
^ Refined at 6.75 llj/kg and 17Z consistency
3 Refined at 8.09 MJ/kg and 30Z consistency after second stage
** Pulp (3); cooked to 94Z yield by sodium-base sulphite liquor at 10Z consistency
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THE EFFECT OF THE HEAT TREATMENT (150°C. 22Z CONSISTENCY, 60 HINUTES) ON A VARIETY OF MECHANICAL, CHEMI-MECHANICAL AND CHEMICAL HOOD PULP FIBRES
SULPHITE PULPS KRAFT PULP
(90Z yield)3
(78Z yield)0
(70Z yield)'
(50Z yield)0
(50Z yield)0
Heat
Heat
Heat
Heat
Heat
Pulp and Fibre Properties
Untreated
Treated
Untreated
Treated
Untreated
Treated
Untreated
Treated
Untreated
Treated
Curl Index
0.102
0.220
0.169
0.220
0.148
0.216
0.236
0.285
0.208
0.254
CSF (ml)
256
340
236
326
673
624
654
691
675
709
Wet-Web Properties
Solids (Z)
22.7
17.3
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19.2
26.
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21.5
27.4
27.2
27.5
34.3
0.7 kPa
Tensile (m)
72.6
59.3
144
111
82.
.8
84.1
97.8
64.6
96.9
61.5
Stretch (Z)
4.15
13.2
6.38
16.2
2.
.38
9.79
21.5
.5
.8
17.8
Work to Rupture
(nJ/g)
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90.5
116
244
.
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110
234
170
174
125
Solids (Z)
29.7
23.4
28.3
24.6
29.
1
29.2
.0
32.0
32.0
38.7
103 kPa
Tensile (tn)
134
114
. 283
183
143
145
120
82.3
122
77.7
Stretch (Z)
3.24
7.08
.04
12.3
1.
.95
.88
17.5
22.3
9.87
11.6
Work to Rupture
(>"J/g)
48.9
95.3
162
286
27.
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94.6
241
196
129
96.1
Wet-Web Stretch at
100 m Breaking Length (I)
3.53
8.54
8.0
17.7
2.
.23
8.05
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19.0
13.5
9.59
Refined at 7.60 MJ/kg and 17Z consistency ^ Refined at 2.20 RJ/kg and 17Z consistency
Refined at 0-57 MJ/kg and 9X consistency 8 Curlated in a mixer for 2.5 hours at 20Z consistency
TABLE II
Treatment Temperature (°C)
Pulp and Fibre Properties Curl Index CSF (ml)
Wet-Web Properties
Solids (X)
18.3
18.
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23.
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19.2
18.
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18.9
18.6
18,
.6
18.
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19.
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0.7 kPa Tensile (tn)
60.6
62.
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65.
.5
48.0
50.
.7
91.5
85.5
75,
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60.
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56.
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Stretch (Z)
.05
7.
,73
7.
.28
11.3
12.
.5
6.32
8.61
13,
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18.
,6
19.
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Work to Rupture
(raj /g )
38.3
45.
,8
58.
.5
58.3
77.
,7
69.0
88.9
114
124
143
Solids (X)
24.8
23.
,2
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24.2
22.
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.6
23.4
22,
.7
22,
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23,
.6
103 kPa Tensile (in)
117
104
93.
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80.5
80,
.7
161
147
117
105
88,
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Stretch (%)
4.85
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.62
6.
.75
9.19
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4.82
6.87
11,
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14,
,9
18,
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Work to Rupture
(n>J/g)
73.5
69.
.8
75.
.7
84.3
100
90.8
119
187
201
216
Wet-Web Stretch at
100 m Breaking Length (t)
4.50
.
,86
6.
.50
7.64
9.
.52
.90
8.13
12,
.7
16,
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18,
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* Refined at 6.75 MJ/kg and 172 consistency
2 Refined at 8*09 KJ/kg and pulp at 30X consistency after second stage refining
THE EFFECT OF THE TEMPERATURE OF THE TREATMENT
Refiner Mechanical* Pulp Thennomechanlcal2 Pulp
Untreated 110 130 150 170 Untreated 110 130 150 170
0.143 0.178 0.225 0.258 0.259 0.121 0.138 0.180 0.239 0.261
159 207 259 248 231 181 244 292 287 284
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THE EFFECT OF THE TEMPERATURE OF THE TREATMENT
Treatment Temperature (°C) Untreated Pulp and Fibre Properties
Curl Index 0.153
CSF (ml) 279
Wet-Web Properties
Solids (Z) 20.5
0.7 kPa Tensile (m) 73.3
Stretch (I) 5.45
Work to Rupture (mJ/g) 49.0
Solids (Z) 24.9
103 kPa Tensile (m) 118
Stretch <Z) 4.02
Work to Rupture (mJ/g) 56.7
Wet-VJeb Stretch at
100 m Breaking Length (Z) 4.61
3 Refined at 7.60 MJ/kg and 17Z consistency ** Refined at 0.64 KJ/kg and 30Z consistency
High-Yield Sulphite Pulp High-Yield Sulphite Pulp
(90Z yield)3 (70* yield)1*
110 130 150 170 Untreated 110 130 150 170
0.166 0.206 0.226 0.221 0.147 0.181 0.217 0.237 0.239 292 358 287 269 685 692 675 601 648
22.5
.8
19.
,2
17,
.3
27,
.4
27,
.3
26.
.3
24.3
.
.9
74.5
60.2
63,
,0
72.
.1
74,
.0
75,
.8
76.
,5
91.6
68,
.5
6.51
11.1
.
8
14,
.9
2.
.10
4.
.07
8.
.81
17.8
' 5.
.04
71.9
97.9
107
137
16,
.2
32.
.1
93,
,7
189
38,
.4
26.5
23.9
23,
.4
21.
.8
31,
.1
31,
,1
.
.3
28.6
,
.7
107
97.6
101
120
124
121
108
124
117
.42
7.82
11,
.1
11.
.2
2,
.00
3,
.37
.
06
12.2
3,
.75
76.0
110
143
157
26,
.3
39,
.4
73.
.9
203
49,
.7
.54
7.96
,
.9
12.
.5
2.
.21
3,
.72
6.
.23
.3
4,
.04
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EXAMPLE 3
This example illustrates the effect of the time for the treatment.
Lignocellulosic pulp fibres at approximately 22% consistency were treated in a digester at 150°C for 2, 10 and 60 minutes respectively. The results reproduced in Table III were obtained after a standard hot disintegration.
It can be seen that the time, as well as the temperature (Example 2), control the extent to which the curl in the fibres is rendered permanent. Both variables can be adjusted to yield pulp with the required properties sought.
In addition to the time to maintain the desired properties of curly fibres and temperature of the treatment described above, the extent to which fibre curl is present, after heat treatment and hot disintegration also depends on the state of the fibres immediately after refining. In Table III it can be seen that for two 70%-yield sulphite pulps, the one refined at 30% consistency, i.e., containing more curly fibres, will require a shorter heat treatment and/or a treatment at a lower temperature to achieve the same wet-web strength properties as that for the pulp refined at 9% consistency.
EXAMPLE 4
This example illustrates the effect of the consistency of the pulp fibres when submitted to heat treatment.
TABLE III
THE EFFECT OF THE TIME FOR THE TREATMENT
Thermomechanical Pulp
Time for Treatment (minutes)
Untreated
2
60
Untreated
2
60
Pulp and Fibre Properties
Curl Index
0.143
0.189
0.210
0.258
0.121
0.152
0.168
0.239
CSF (ml)
159
214
206
248
181
200
225
287
Wet-Web Properties
Solids (Z)
18.3
.5
17.9
19.2
18.9
.8
.5
18.4
0.7 kPa Tensile (m)
60.6
57.4
58.8
48.0
91.5
78.4
80.1
60.5
Stretch (X)
.05
7.73
9.83
11.3
6.32
8.82
11.2
18.6
Work to Rupture (mJ/g)
38.3
54.5
63.5
58.3
69.0
89.5
112
124
Solids (Z)
24.8
27.5
23.0
24.2
.6
26.1
27.0
22.5
103 kPa Tensile (m)
117
107
97.2
80.5
161
125
135
105
Stretch (Z)
4.85
.17
7.51
9.19
4.82
6.57
7.79
14.9
Work to Rupture (nJ/g)
73.5
66.1
83.1
84.3
90.8
115
135
201
Wet-Web Stretch at
100 m Breaking Length (Z)
4.50
.32
7.66
7.64
.90
7.62
9.53
16.9
1 Refined at 6.75 HJ/kg end 171 consistency
2 Refined at 8.09 HJ/kg and 303! consistency
TABLE III (Cont'd)
THE EFFECT OF THE TIME FOR THE TREATMENT
Time for■Treatment (minutes) Pulp and Fibre Properties Curl Index CSF (ml)
Wet-Web Properties
High-Yield Sulphite Pulp3 (90S yield)
Untreated
60
0.102 0.178 0.179 0.220 256 294 363 340
Solids (X)
22.
,7
.4
18.5
17.3
0.7 kPe i Tensile (ra)
72,
.6
57.1
47.1
59.3
Stretch (Z)
4.
.15
7.48
9.57
13.2
Work to Rupture
(mJ/g)
,
.7
56.5
57.8
90.5
Solids (Z)
29,
.7
.0
24.5
23.4
103 kPa
Tensile (m)
134
100
95.4
114.
Stretch (Z)
3
.24
.04
6.17
7.08
Work to Rupture
(nJ/g)
48
.9
69.1
72.6
95.2
Wet-Web
Stretch at
100 to Breaking Length (Z)
3,
.53
.17
6.01
8.54
3 Refined at 7.60 MJ/kg'and 17Z consistency
"* Refined at 0.57 HJ/kg and 9Z consistency
Refined at 0.64 MJ/kg and 30Z consistency
High-Yield Sulphite Pulp1* High-Yield Sulphite Pulp5
(70Z yield) (70Z Yield)
Untreated 2 10 60 Untreated 2 10 60
0.148 0.155 0.218 0.216 0.147 0.187 0.214 0.237
673 674 694 624 685 698 678 601
26.1
28.1
,
,0
21.
,5
27.4
24,
.6
24.5
24.3
82.8
86.2
71,
.5
84.
.1
74.0
51,
.5
91.4
91.6
2.38
2.57
4,
.84
9.
.79
2.10
6,
,11
18.3
17.8
.3
23.5
40,
.3
110
16.2
,
.2
201
189
29.1
31.0
31,
.5
29,
.2
31.1
,
.0
31.0
28.6
143
124
130
145
124
94,
.4
150
124
1.95
2.23
3
.40
,
.88
2.00
4,
.15
9.97
12.2
27.3
28.4
49
.5
94,
.6
26.3
45
.2
158
203
2.23
2.36
3.
.76
8,
.05
2.21
4
.31
16.5
.3
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Lignocellulosic pulp fibres were treated in a digester at 150°C for 60 minutes at consistencies of 5, 10, 20, and 25%. For the purposes of this specification, the term "% consistency" means the percentage of oven-dried weight of pulp fibres to the total weight of pulp fibres plus water. The results reproduced in Table IV were obtained after a standard hot disintegration.
The effect of the treatment is greater, the higher the consistency of the pulp fibres. The treatment has no effect on pulp fibres at low consistency, typically lower than 5%.
EXAMPLE 5
This example illustrates the effect of the heat treatment on the wet-web and dry-handsheet properties of high-yield pulps.
The lignocellulosic pulp fibres were heat treated in a digester at 150°C and at about 20% consistency for approximately 60 minutes. For the pulp fibres, in the high-yield range, the heat treatment improves, in addition to the wet-web stretch and work to rupture, the dry handsheet tear strength and stretch (Table V).
EXAMPLE 6
This example illustrates the effect of the pH of the pulp fibres during the heat treatment. A 70% yield sulphite pulp at a pH of 3.2 was heat treated in a digester at 150°C and at about 20% consistency for approximately 60 minutes. Another sample of the same
TABLE IV
THE EFFECT OF THE CONSISTENCY OF THE PULP FIBRES DURING HEAT TREATMENT
Consis tency of pulp fibres
Thermomechanical Pulp'
High-Yield Sulphite Pulp
(90Z Yield)2
during heat treatment
(X)
Untreated
Untreated
2
12.
Pulp and Fibre Properties
Curl Index
0.121
0.169
0.154
0.233
0.243
0.128
0.163
0.181
0.201
0.216
CSF (ml)
181
255
217
281
302
338
414
390
403
429
Wet-Web Properties
0.7 kPa
Solids (Z)
18.9
24.
.9
19.4
21.9
22,
.0
22.5
21.
.3
21.7
19.
.8
19.3
Tensile (m)
91.5
93.
6
90.6
59.1
62,
,3
69.5
69.
,3
62.3
63.
0
64.5
Stretch (X)
6.32
.
8
9.28
16.5
17.
.6
4.98
.
94
8.09
12.
8
14.3
Work to rupture
(mJ/g)
69.0
137
108
119
129
39.0
47.
,2
65.0
95.
,3
118
103 kPa
Solids (X)
.6
26.
>4
.7
26.3
.
,3
26.4
27.
,5
24.5
22.
7
23.2
Tensile (m)
161
134
153
98.8
101
128
128
103
100
102
Stretch (X)
4.82
9.
,52
7.84
14.0
16.
.8
3.38
4.
,22
.47
11.
3
12.2
Work to rupture
(mJ/g)
90.8
163
148
174
208
49.2
69.
,7
71.8
155
169
Wet—web s tretch at
100 m breaking length (Z)
.90
.
36
9.12
13.7
16.
.9
3.96
.
,16
6.21
.
3
11.1
1 Refined at 8.09 MJ/kg and 30Z consistency
2 Refined at 6.89 MJ/kg and 17Z consistency
TABLE V
THE EFFECT OF THE HEAT TREATMENT ON THE WET-WEB AND DRY HANDSHEET PROPERTIES OF HIGH-YIELD PULPS
Pulp and fiber properties
Curl Index CSF/ml
781 Yield Sulphite Pulp Refined at 2.20 MJ/kg and 17% consistency Untreated Heat treated
0.169 236
0.220 326
70% Yield Sulphite Pulps
Refitied at 0.64 Ml/kg Refined at 0.78 MJ/kg Refined at 0.57 MJ/kg and 30% consistency and 241 consistency and 9% consistency
Untreated Heat treated Untreated Heat treated Untreated Heat treated
0.147 685
0.237 601
0.138 662
0.227 627
0.148 673
0.216 624
Wet-Web properties
0.7 kPa solids (%) 20.6 19.2
tensile (ra) 144 111
stretch (%) 6.38 16.2
work to rupture (MJ/g) . 116 244
27.4 74.0 2.10 16.2
24.3 91.6 17.8 189
27.4 91.8 2.19 19.0
23.3
78.5
16.6 160
26.1 82.8 2.38 20.3
21.5 84.1
9.79 110
103 kPa solids (%) 28.3 24.6 31.1 28.6 31.8 28.9 29.1 29.2
tensile (ra) 283 183 124 124 158 119 143 145
stretch (%) 5.04 12.3 2.00 12.2 2.34 9.24 1.95 5.88
work to rupture (MJ/g) 162 286 26.3 203 36.4 133 27.3 94.6
Wet-Web stretch at
100 m breaking length (%)
Dry handsheet properties
Bulk (cm3/g)
Burst index (kPa-m2/g) Tear index (mN.m2/g) Breaking length (m) Stretch (%)
Toughness index (mJ) Zero-span b.l. (km) Scattering coeff. (cm2/g) Tappi opacity (X) Iso-Brightness (Z) Absorption coeff. (cn2/g)
8.0
17.7
2.21
.3
2.34
11.8
2.23
8.05
1.54
1.66
1.86
1.57
1.74
1.
.56
1.81
1.59
6.96
.58
.81
4.56
6.73
4,
.81
6.24
.44
6.33
9.98
8.76
9.85
8.26
.
,07
8.22
8.71
10204
7991
8750
7159
9422
7041
9704
8246
2.89
3.71
2.68
3.20
2.79
3.
,16
2.63
3.00
177
272
139
138
159
138
150
131
14.38
14.05
.79
14.56
16.12
14.
94
16.45
16.36
177
234
212
200
208
208
219
211
70.4
91.7
76.1
73.0
76.3
75,
,5
77.2
74.1
42.8
.3
44.6
41.4
44.8
42.
.2
45.3
42.0
13.33
21.19
. 15.47
16.44
14.88 <
16,
.24
14.68
16.51
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pulp was sprayed with a solution of sodium carbonate to increase its pH to 10.0 and was also given a heat treatment at the same conditions.
Both heat treated pulps show remarkable improvement in wet-web properties and dry tear strength and stretch over the untreated sample (Table VI). The pulp heat treated at high pH has higher tear strength due to the protective action of the alkali which reduces the loss in fibre strength through acid hydrolysis.
EXAMPLE 7
This example illustrates the effect of pulp bleaching or brightening agents on the wet-web and dry-handsheet strength of heat treated pulps.
A 70% yield sulphite pulp was bleached by a conventional hydrogen peroxide treatment following the heat treatment at 150°C for 60 minutes and 20% consistency. Results are given in Table VII for the pulps after treatment with different peroxide charges and after a standard hot disintegration. The pulp after bleaching still possesses all the claimed superior properties (with the exception of drainage) resulting from the heat treatment done under the conditions disclosed in this invention.
EXAMPLE 8
As a further example pulps have been heat treated in the way described earlier, with the addition of a brightening agent during the heat treatment stage.
A thermomechanical pulp and a 70%-yield sulphite
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TABLE VI
THE EFFECT OF THE PULP FIBRE pH DURING HEAT TREATMENT
70% yie^
d sulphite pulp
Heat treated pulp at 150°C
Untreated for 60 minutes and 20%
pulp hot consistency followed by
disintegrated hot disint
:egratlon pH of heat treatment
-
3.2
.0
Pulp and fibre properties
Curl index
0.135
0.237
0.253
CSF (ml)
643
610
. 672
0.7 kPa solids (%)
.4
22.1
26.7
tensile (m)
103
89.5
67.8
stretch (%)
2.67
.8
7.38
work to rupture
.1
157
52.6
103 kPa solids (%)
29.0
28.2
29.4
tensile (m)
169
141
103
stretch (%)
2.54
9.61
6.19
work to rupture
34.4
142
67.0
Wet-Web stretch at
2.89
13.5
6.24
100 m breaking length
Dry handsheet properties
Bulk (cm^/g)
1.72
1.54
1.78
Burst index (kPa.m^/g)
6.70
4.71
3.43
Tear index (mN.m^/g)
8.15
9.78
16.41
Breaking length (m)
9924
7383
. 5547
% stretch
2.89
3.03
2.99
Toughness index (mJ)
167
137
107
Zero-span b.l. (km)
16.38
14.95
14.35
Scattering coeff. (cm^/g)
205
209
. 263
Tappi opacity (%)
74.6
74.9
93.7
Iso-brightness (%)
44.4
43.0
21.5
Absorption coeff. (cm2/g)
14.86
.22
50.50
1 Refined at 0.99 mJ/kg and 18% consistency
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THE EFFECT OF BLEACHING HEAT-TREATED PULPS
70% Yield Sulphite Pulp1
1 CA®P
Weight of Peroxide on Pulp (%)
Pulp and Fibre Properties
Curl Index CSF (ml)
Wet-Web Properties
0.7 kPa Solids (%)
Tensile (m)
Stretch (%)
Work to rupture
103 kPa Solids (%)
Tensile (m)
Stretch (%)
Work to rupture
Wet-Web stretch at
100 n breaking length (%)
Before Heat Treatment
0.138 662
27.A 91.8 2.19 19.0
31.8 158 2.34 36.4
After heat treatment at 150 C for 60 minutes and 20% consistency followed by peroxide bleaching
2.34
0.227 607
23.3 87.7
.1 150
29.0 133
9.31 148
13.02
0.5
0.216 583
22.9 92.2 12.8 131
28.1 139
9.26 150
12.82
1.0
0.209 533
.0
93.7 14.0
165
32.8 180
8.95 171
13.82
2.0
0.204 524
22.7 95.9 16.5 210
.3 151
8.48 162
.0
Dry Handsheet Properties
Bulk (cn^/g)
1.
.74
1.54
1.
,53
1.47
1
Burst Index (kPa.m^/g)
6.
.73
4.50
4,
.70
.23
Tear Index (mN.m^/g)
8.
.26
.40
.
.75
.64
Breaking Length (m)
9422
6754
6814
7389
7302
Stretch (%)
2.
,79
3.26
3.
.43
3.50
3
Toughness Index (mJ)
159
143
148
170
163
Zero-span b.l. (km)
16.
,12
14.38
14.
.42
14.48
14
Scattering Coeff. (cm2/g)
208
211
206
196
198
Tappi Opacity (%)
76,
,3
76.8
61,
.5
68.7
66
Iso-Brightness (%)
44.
.8
42.1
49.
.3
52.9
56
Absorption Coeff. (cm^/g)
14.
.88
16.36
7,
.02
.23
4
Visual Efficiency (%)
56,
.0
53.6
63.
.5
67.0
70
Printing Opacity (I)
86,
.0
86.6
69.
.6
77.0
73
1 Refined at 0.78 MJ/kg and 24% consistency
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pulp at about 30% consistency were sprayed with a solution of 2% H202, 0.4% EDTA, 3% Na^Oj, 0.005% MgSO^, to bring it to 19% consistency. The pulps were treated at 150°C for 10 minutes.
Results are given in Table VIII. Both pulps are higher in visual efficiency than the control and possess all the other desired superior properties.
EXAMPLE 9
This example illustrates the effect of the heat treatment on bleached or brightened pulps.
A 70% yield sulphite pulp and a thermomechanical pulp at about 30% consistency were sprayed with a solution of 2% H202/ 0.4% EDTA, 3% lSfa2Si03 and 0.005% MgSO^ to bring it to 19% consistency. The pulps reacted with the chemicals for one hour at 60 °C. Afterwards, the pulps were heat treated at 150°C for 10 minutes.
Results are given in Table IX for the original pulps before heat treatment, the brightened pulps and for both pulps after heat treatment. The heat treatment, done under the conditions disclosed herein on the brightened pulp compared to the original pulp gave similar properties while it had higher visual efficiency.
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TABLE VIII
THE EFFECT OF THE ADDITION OF A BRIGHTENING AGENT TO PULP DURING THE HEAT TREATMENT
70Z YIELD SULPHITE PULP1
TMP
Heat Treatment at 150"C, 10 rain, 192
Heat Treatment at 150°C, 10 mln, 19?
2Z H202
, 2Z H202
Before
No
. 0.4Z EDTA
Before
No
0.4Z EDTA
Heat
Bleaching
3Z Na2S103
Heat
Bleaching
3Z Na2S103
Treatment
Chemicals
0.005% MgSO^
Treatment
Chemicals
0.005Z MgSO,
* Pulp and Fibre Properties
- Curl Index
0.148
0.187
0.209
0.106
0.177
0.163
i CSF (ml)
673
651
685
175
312
293
vjec-Web Properties
0.7 kPa Solids (Z),
26.1
26.5
.1
.6
.9
23.4
Tensile (m)
82.8
92.4
80.1
110
86.1
96.1
Stretch (Z)
2.38
3.32
.04
.02
.1
.1
Work to rupture
.3
32.0
43.7
68.4
117
122
103 kPa Solids (Z)
29.1
32.5
• 32.1
.0
32.3
29.3
Tensile (m)
143
147
127
167
144
150
Stretch (Z)
1.95
2.53
3.49
4.42
8.22
7.24
Work to rupture
27.3
38.1
44.7
86.8
159
144
Vtat-Web stretch at
100 m breaking length (X)
2.23
2.90
4.05
.22
9.61
8.93
Dry Handsheet Properties
Stalk (cm3/g)
1.81
1.65
1.79
2.79
3.10
2.96
Burst Index (kPa.m^/g)
6.24
.78
4.38
2.02
1.36
1.50
Tear Index (mN.m2/g)
8.22
7.84
7.84
8.72
8.27
8.94
Breaking Length (m)
9704
9251
7361
3625
2469
2792
scratch (Z)
2.63
2.71
2.32
2.15
2.05
2.07
toughness Index (mJ)
150
156
113
45
32
37
Zero-span b.l. (km)
16.45
16.23
13.96
11.20
9.78
.47
Scattering Coeff. (cmz/g)
219
203
238
568
568
581
tappi Opacity (Z)
77.2
76.1
■ 79.7
93.8
95.1
93.3
Iso-Brightness (Z)
45.3
41.7
42.8
56.0
50.9
55.8
Absorption Coeff. (cm2/g)
14.68
.10
9.22
.23
.49
9.83
Visual Efficiency (Z)
56.6
54.3
60.4
67.3
64.4
71.2
Refined at 0*57 KJ/kg and 9% consistency
Refined at 8.52 HJ/kg and 352 consistency after second stage
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24 MAY 1984 RECEIVED
Claims (3)
- TABLE IX. THE EFFECT OF THE HEAT TREATMENT ON BLEACHED OR BRIGHTENED PULPS Pulp and Fibre Properties Curl Index CSF (ml) Wet-Web Properties 0.7 kPa Solids (%) Tensile (m) Stretch (2) Work to rupture 103 kPa Solids (2) Tensile (ra) Stretch (2) Work to rupture Wet-Web stretch at 100 m breaking length (2) Dry Handsheet Properties Bulk (cm3/g) Burst Index (KPa.ra^/g) Tear Index (mN.m2/g) Breaking Length (n) Stretch (2) Toughness Index (nJ) Zero-span b.l. (km) Scattering Coeff. (csa2/g) Tappi Opacity (2) Iso-Brightness (2) Absorption Coeff. (cm2/g) V,ieual Efficiency (2) Printing Opacity (2) 702 YIELD SULPHITE PULP THP^ (a) Original Pulp Before Heat Treatment (b) Pulp .(a) Brightened Heat Treatment at 150aC, 10 mln. Original Pulp (a) Brightened Pulp (b) (a) : Original Pulp Before Heat Treatment (b) Pulp (a) Brightened Heat Treatment at 150°C, 10 mln. Original Pulp (a) Brightened Pulp (b) 0.108 715 26.8 77.2 1.71 14.5 33.5 160 1.63 27.7 0.157 687 26.3 79.8 1.77 12.0 31.5 119 1.73 17.3 0.215 681 27.7 59.1 2.99 20.3 29.2 100 2.49 26.4 0.223 707 28.0 62.5 3.49 23.6 30.5 89.4 2.84 29.2 0.106 175 20.6 110 5.02 68.4 25.0 167 4.42 86.8 0.113 187 21.1 105 5.44 71.9 27.5 157 4.75 94.9 0.177 312 25.9 86.1 10.1 117 32.3 144 8.22 159 0.167 308 21.5 82.5 11.3 114 26.4 129 8.38 124 1.81 1.87 6.09 7.99 9054 2.62 128 15.68 221 73.8 46.5 13.79 57.9 83.6 1.74 1.80 6.17 7.35 10033 2.60 146 16.39 220 69.1 53.2 4.90 68.9 76.6 3.02 1.68 5.01 8.54 7675 2.85 131 , 15.43 215 75.3 42.2 13.85 55.2 85.1 2.74 1.80 4.35 7.48 7300 2.50 109 13.80 241 73.8 46.5 6.14 65.2 81.7 5.22 2.79 2.02 8.72 3625 2.15 45 11.20 .568 93.8 56.0 20.23 67.3 96.2 5.54 2.78 2.07 8.92 3814 2.13 47 11.08 555 87.7 67.8 3.91 81.1 89.7 9.61 3.10 1.36 8.27 2469 2.05 32 9.78 568 95.1 50.9 20.49 64.4 97.1 10.0 2.94 1.43 8.34 2713 1.95 33 9.92 570 91.8 56.6 8.95 72.0 94.5 1 Refined at 0.50 MJ/kg and 15Z consistency 2 Refined et 8.52 MJ/kg end 35Z consistency after second stage 204019 VYH&J ^yyr claim 15 • WE CLAIMS 1. A method for treating pulp fibres that have already been curled by mechanical action which method comprises: subjecting said pulp fibres to a heat treatment while said pulp is at a consistency of at least 5% in the form of nodules or entangled mass, thereby to render said curl permanent to subsequent mechanical action.
- 2. A method for treating pulp fibres < that have already been curled by a mechanical action at a consistency of at least 9%, fibres to a heat treatment at a temperature of at least 100 °C, while said pulp is in the form of nodules or entangled mass at a consistency of at least 5% thereby to render said curl permanent to subsequent mechanical action.
- 3. A method for treating pulp fibres that have already been curled by a mechanical action at a consistency of at least 9%, which method comprises: subjecting said pulp which method comprises: subjecting said pulp fibres to a heat treatment at a temperature of 100°C-170°C for a period of time between 60 minutes and 2 minutes, while said pulp, in the form of nodules or entangled mass is at a consistency of at least 5%, - thereby to render said curl permanent to subsequent mechanical action. The method of claim 3 wherein the pulp is at a consistency of at least 15%. -32- 2040 J 9 5. The method of any one of claims 1 to4wherein said heat treatment is carried out as a batch method, in a digester. 6. The method of any one of claims lto4 wherein said heat treatment is carried out as a continuous method through a steaming tube maintained at high pressure. 7. The method of anyone of claims 1 to 4 wherein said pulp fibres are lignocellulosic pulp fibres produced by mechanical defibration. 8. The method of any one of claims I to 4 wherein said pulp fibres are lignocellulosic pulp fibres produced by refining. 9. The method of any one of claims 1 to 4 wherein said pulp fibres are lignocellulosic pulp fibres produced by refining in a disc refiner at a consistency of at least 9%, and/or in a device — curl and kinks in the fibres. which introduces 1U . The method of any one of claims 1 to 4 wherein said pulp fibres are lignocellulosic pulp fibres produced by mechanical defibration of wood chips at a consistency of at least 9%. 33 - 204019 11. The method of anyone of claims 1 to 4 wherein said pulp fibres are lignocellulosic pulp fibres produced by mechanical defibration of wood chips at a consistency of at least 9% followed or preceded by a chemical treatment. 12. The method of any one of claims 1 to 4 wherein said pulp fibres are lignocellulosic pulp fibres obtained after a single stage refining, or, after two successive refinings, or, between two successive refinings. 13. The method of any one of claims 1 to 4 wherein said pulp fibres are lignocellulosic pulp fibres at neutral or alkaline pH. 14. The method of any one of claims 1 to 4 wherein said pulp fibres are pulp fibres commercially produced under the designation of refiner mechanical pulp, pres- or surized refiner mechanical pulp thermomechani cal pulp either from a single stage or two-stage refining. 15. The method of anyone of claims 1 to4 wherein said pulp fibres are pulp fibres commercially produced under the designation, of ultra-high-yield pulps, high-yield pulps, chemi-thermomechanical pulps, high-yield , chemimechanical pulps, interstage thermo-mechanical pulps .and chemically post-treated mechanical or thermomechanical pulps. /■% 204019 16." The method of Any one of claims i to 4 wherein said pulp fibres are part of the furnish. 171 The method of any one of claims 1 to 4 wherein said pulp fibres are the refined rejects in mechanical or other high yield pulp production, 18. The method of any one of claims 1 to 4 wherein said pulp fibres are whole pulps of the furnish. 19. The method of any one of claims 1 to 4 including the step of incorporating a brightening agent during heat treatment, to upgrade the brightness while retaining the improved pulp' properties. 20- The method of jny one of claims 1 to 4 including the subsequent steps of brightening or bleaching sequences to upgrade the brightness of the pulps while maintaining the improved pulp properties. 2i. The method of any one of claims 1 to4wherein said pulps are brightened pulps, thereby to maintain adequate brightness after heat treatment as well as the improved pulp properties. 22- A method of treating pulp fibres that have already been curled'according to any one of claims 1 to 4 substantially as herein described with reference to the Examples. as.*-. t*kfw By His/Their authorised Agent A. J. PARK & SON - 35
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