US20040000012A1 - Treatment of a mixture containing cellulose - Google Patents

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US20040000012A1
US20040000012A1 US10/184,009 US18400902A US2004000012A1 US 20040000012 A1 US20040000012 A1 US 20040000012A1 US 18400902 A US18400902 A US 18400902A US 2004000012 A1 US2004000012 A1 US 2004000012A1
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
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    • C08B1/02—Rendering cellulose suitable for esterification
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    • C08B1/00—Preparatory treatment of cellulose for making derivatives thereof, e.g. pre-treatment, pre-soaking, activation
    • C08B1/06—Rendering cellulose suitable for etherification
    • C—CHEMISTRY; METALLURGY
    • C08—ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS; THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP; COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON
    • C08B—POLYSACCHARIDES; DERIVATIVES THEREOF
    • C08B11/00—Preparation of cellulose ethers
    • C08B11/02—Alkyl or cycloalkyl ethers
    • C08B11/04—Alkyl or cycloalkyl ethers with substituted hydrocarbon radicals
    • C08B11/10—Alkyl or cycloalkyl ethers with substituted hydrocarbon radicals substituted with acid radicals
    • C08B11/12—Alkyl or cycloalkyl ethers with substituted hydrocarbon radicals substituted with acid radicals substituted with carboxylic radicals, e.g. carboxymethylcellulose [CMC]
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • 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
    • D21C9/10—Bleaching ; Apparatus therefor
    • D21C9/1057—Multistage, with compounds cited in more than one sub-group D21C9/10, D21C9/12, D21C9/16

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  • the present invention relates to a method for treating a mixture containing cellulose, comprising at least one step of adding at least one agent capable of reducing carbonyl groups.
  • the invention further relates to a specialty cellulose pulp, obtained by a method comprising said treatment.
  • the invention relates to the use of the specialty cellulose pulp according to the invention or the specialty cellulose pulp obtained by a method according to the invention for the production of cellulose derivatives or materials containing cellulose molecules as a raw material, including but not limited to, cellulose ethers or cellulose esters.
  • Cellulose derivatives obtained from the specialty cellulose pulp according to the invention display increased viscosity and/or improved brightness over cellulose derivatives obtained from specialty cellulose pulp not subjected to the inventive treatment.
  • Specialty cellulose pulp is used to manufacture a number of products that require physical and chemical properties not provided by the pulp used for the manufacture of standard paper, linerboard or cardboard. Specialty cellulose pulp therefore differs from the major portion of cellulose pulp produced in the world today.
  • Bleaching is commonly achieved by treating a pulp slurry with chemicals that either remove colored compounds such as lignin, or alter the structure of colored compounds so that they are no longer colored.
  • the extent to which a specialty cellulose is bleached depends on the requirements for the end-product manufactured from the specialty cellulose pulp.
  • the expert in the field typically understands a bleaching process as one that increases the ISO brightness of a mixture containing cellulose. Futhermore, the expert in the field typically understands that bleaching is achieved primarily by oxidation processes, i.e. bleaching of any mixture containing cellulose according to the prior art typically involves the application of an oxidizing agent.
  • oxidation processes i.e. bleaching of any mixture containing cellulose according to the prior art typically involves the application of an oxidizing agent.
  • ECF elemental chlorine free bleaching
  • TCF chlorine free bleaching uses chlorine-free bleaching agents such as oxygen or peroxides.
  • oxidizing agents are ozone or enzymes.
  • JP-A 0 6 033 390 discloses a method for using ozone to bleach pulp.
  • a main concern is to limit the oxidizing agent exposure time in order to limit damage to the cellulose molecules.
  • bleaching techniques known to the expert in the field typically involve oxidizing agents.
  • the degree of ISO brightness achievable by these methods of bleaching is limited to the extent that strong oxidizing agents (or highly concentrated oxidizing agents) which would result in a high degree of ISO brightness also tend to damage the cellulose molecules.
  • strong or highly concentrated oxidizing agents tend to reduce the degree of polymerization (DP) of the cellulose.
  • a process known as “reductive bleaching” is used commonly for brightening virgin mechanical pulps or pulp from recycled newsprint.
  • a reducing agent typically sodium borohydride
  • the reducing agent is not used to reduce carbonyl-groups in the pulp but to generate a bleaching agent.
  • This process is disclosed, e.g. on pages 502 through 504 of “Pulp Bleaching; Principles and Practice”, Dence and Reeve (Eds.), TAPPI Press, 1996.
  • reducing agents are also known in the context of late stages of the treatment of cellulose pulps.
  • U.S. Pat. No. 5,501,711 discloses the use of borohydrides to treat cellulose fabric that already had been subjected to a bleaching treatment.
  • the application of reducing agents improves the dyeability of said cellulosic fibers.
  • the U.S. Pat. No. 6,217,621 relates to stripping textile fibers, including cellulose acetates and other products obtained from specialty cellulose pulp, of their dyes by using reducing agents such as borohydrides.
  • 5,035,772 is to prevent the yellowing with age of lignin contained in (high yield) cellulose pulps.
  • the process is to be used with ground-wood pulp, refiner pulp, thermo-mechanical and chemical-mechanical pulp for paper manufacture. Therefore, the U.S. Pat. No. 5,035,772 does not relate at all to the treatment of specialty cellulose pulp.
  • the object of the present invention was to provide a method of treating a mixture containing cellulose, preferably a mixture containing cellulose leading to specialty cellulose pulp, so that the degree of brightness or the viscosity of cellulose derivatives obtained therefrom, or both, is/are increased over the prior art.
  • a specialty cellulose pulp as such, leading to cellulose derivatives with increased viscosity and/or brightness was to be provided.
  • this object could be achieved by treating a mixture containing cellulose with at least one step of adding at least one agent capable of reducing carbonyl groups.
  • the inventive treatment is either the sole step of the entire process or is performed prior to bleaching and/or after bleaching or is performed as at least one step of a multi-stage bleaching process.
  • the solution according to the invention is particularly surprising since the prior art does not teach that treating a mixture containing cellulose, i.e. treating a pulp, leads to cellulose derivatives obtainable from the treated pulp with improved viscosity and/or brightness in comparison to a similar cellulose derivative obtained by the same process but excluding the inventive step of adding at least on agent capable of reducing carbonyl groups.
  • the present invention therefore relates to a method for treating a mixture containing cellulose, comprising at least one step of adding at least one agent capable of reducing carbonyl groups.
  • the invention further relates to a specialty cellulose pulp, obtained by a method comprising said treatment.
  • the invention relates to the use of the specialty cellulose pulp according to the invention or the specialty cellulose pulp obtained by a method according to the invention for the production of cellulose derivatives or materials containing cellulose molecules as a raw material, including but not limited to, cellulose ethers or cellulose esters.
  • Cellulose derivatives obtained from the specialty cellulose pulp according to the invention display increased viscosity and/or improved brightness over cellulose derivatives obtained from specialty cellulose pulp not subjected to the inventive treatment.
  • FIG. 1 the viscosity of the end product obtained from the inventive specialty cellulose pulp, CMC, (vertical axis; units: mPa s) is shown as a function of the limiting viscosity number of the specialty cellulose pulp as defined in the standard “SCAN-CM 15:99” (horizontal axis, units: ml/g).
  • the brightness of CMC powder (vertical axis, units: % brightness) is shown as a function of the intrinsic brightness of the specialty cellulose pulp from which the CMC powder has been obtained by means of etherification (horizontal axis; units: % brightness)
  • FIG. 3 shows a typical particle size distribution of a CMC powder after grinding in the Fritsch Pulvarisette 19 knife mill as used in Examples 1, 2 and 3.
  • the horizontal x-axis represents the particle diameter in ⁇ m. while the vertical y-axis represents the volume of the corresponding particles in %.
  • a “mixture containing cellulose” according to the invention is any mixture that contains the glucose polymer of cellulose.
  • the state of the cellulose source i.e. it may be solid, liquid, a suspension, slurry, paste or powder.
  • the origin of the cellulose i.e. it may be solid, liquid, a suspension, slurry, paste or powder.
  • the mixture containing cellulose is derived from cotton linters and/or wood.
  • the mixture containing cellulose is derived from wood.
  • Other cellulose sources in particular annual plants and/or biomass, (micro)biologically produced and/or derived cellulose, or cellulose from all types of cell walls are included as well.
  • the mixture containing cellulose may be derived from raw materials that need to be pulped.
  • pulping refers to any process that separates the cellulose from the at least one component that holds the cellulose together in the raw material.
  • the cellulose is held together by lignin and hemicellulose in fibers.
  • the pulping process is meant to separate, at least partly, the lignin from the carbohydrate moieties of these fibers.
  • pulping processes three different methods are commonly discerned: (i) chemical pulping (or “cooking”), (ii) mechanical (or “groundwood”) pulping and (iii) semi-chemical or chemical-mechanical pulping.
  • the raw material typically wood
  • the raw material is cooked in a “digester” at elevated temperatures with chemicals suited to break the bonds between the cellulose molecules and the lignin.
  • the raw material is typically pressed against a grinder which physically separates the fibers.
  • the process (iii) refers to any combination of (i) and (ii).
  • “Pulping” may not be necessary for all raw materials. For example, if cotton linters are used as the mixture containing cellulose, no chemical or mechanical pulping is necessary prior to any subsequent treatment, including the inventive treatment and/or bleaching.
  • a mixture containing cellulose that has been pulped as described above is commonly referred to as “pulp”.
  • the term “pulp” is to be seen as more general than the term “mixture containing cellulose”, since the term “pulp” is meant to refer to the mixture containing cellulose before the inventive treatment as well as to the treated mixture, for example the specialty cellulose pulp as obtained after the inventive treatment.
  • the term “mixture containing cellulose” is only meant to describe the pulp before the treatment according to the invention.
  • the inventive method of treating a mixture containing cellulose with the objective to obtain specialty cellulose pulp can be, in principle, performed with any mixture containing cellulose, the method according to the invention is particularly effective, and therefore preferred, when applied to a mixture containing cellulose derived from wood. It is further preferred to pulp the wood chemically prior to the inventive treatment.
  • both hardwood and softwood tree species may be used.
  • softwoods include but are not limited to: pines, in particular Southern pine, White pine, Caribbean pine; Western hemlock; spruces, in particular Norway Spruce, Sitka Spruce; Douglas fir or the like.
  • hardwoods include, but are not limited to: gum, maple, oak, eucalyptus, poplar, beech, or aspen. Mixtures of two or more types of soft and/or hard wood are included as well.
  • the mixture containing cellulose may be optionally subjected to any type of pretreatment.
  • types of pretreatment include but are not limited to enzyme treatments, mechanical refining, addition of additives, addition of complexing agents, treatment with delignification and other catalysts, the removal of fines as well as any combination of the aforementioned steps.
  • the mixture containing cellulose may be subjected to a bleaching process.
  • bleaching refers to any treatment of the mixture containing cellulose in which the degree of brightness after the bleaching is increased over the degree of brightness before bleaching.
  • ISO brightness as used in the context of the present invention is defined in “ISO 2470-1999—paper, boards and pulp—measurements of the diffuse blue reflectance factor (ISO brightness)” and refers to the brightness of the pulp.
  • bleaching can be performed with any agent capable of achieving the above mentioned objective.
  • At at least one stage of the processing of the mixture containing cellulose, obtained after pulping as has been described above, at least one agent capable of reducing carbonyl groups ( reducing agent) is added to the mixture containing cellulose.
  • reducing agent capable of reducing carbonyl groups
  • every compound or mixture of compounds can be used that results in at least the partial reduction of at least a part of the carbonyl groups in at least one of the components contained within the pulp.
  • Carbonyl groups form a part of the molecular structure of the main compounds in any mixture containing cellulose.
  • compounds are to be named, by way of example, cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin and resins.
  • the carbonyl groups according to the invention that are, at least partially, reduced in the inventive step of adding a reducing agent, may either be naturally present in the raw-material structures or may be generated during processing or both. This is particularly true of the mixtures containing cellulose used for the manufacture of specialty cellulose pulps derived from wood but is also the case, to a lesser extent, for pulp derived from other raw materials, such as pulp derived from cotton linters.
  • any agent that at least partially reduces at least a part of the carbonyl-groups present in the mixture containing cellulose can be used.
  • Borohydrides are particularly preferred, while water-compatible borohydride salts are further preferred.
  • Such salts include but are not limited to sodium borohydride, potassium borohydride, lithium borohydride, sodium cyanoborohydride, sodium triacetoxyborohydride, sodium trimethoxyborohydride, tetramethylammonium borohydride, tetramethylammonium triacetoxyborohydride, tetraethylammonium borohydride, tetrabutylammonium borohydride, tetrabutylammonium cyanoborohydride, cetyltrimethylammonium borohydride, benzyltriethylammonium borohydride, Bis(triphenyl-phosphine) copper (1) borohydride, lithium aluminium hydride, dimethylamineborane (
  • the reducing agent can be used by itself, in combination with other reducing agents and/or in combination with stabilizers such as calcium hydroxide, magnesium bicarbonate or other mildly basic salts. Further additional substances with other purposes may be added as well.
  • the reducing agents and/or additional substances may be added as a solid, a powder, a dispersion, suspension, emulsion or as a solution in a preferred embodiment, if borohydrides are used, they are used in powder form or in the form of a standard solution, e.g. sodium borohydride, which can be purchased as a 12 wt % solution in 40 wt % aqueous sodium hydroxide (e.g. Borol® from Rohm and Haas, HydrafinTM from Finnish Chemicals (Nokia) Ltd). All commercially available forms of these chemicals, as well as any chemical of this kind prepared in a laboratory, may be used to carry out the treatment of a mixture containing cellulose as disclosed here.
  • the reducing agent may be added at any stage of the processing of the mixture containing cellulose.
  • the reducing agent is added in at least one step during a multi-stage bleaching process.
  • the at least one reducing agent is added, i.e. the inventive treatment is performed, at least as the last stage or after the last stage of a multi-stage bleaching process.
  • the content of reducing agent added in at least one step may vary from 0.01 to 500 g, preferably from 0.1 g ⁇ mol/ton mixture containing cellulose (dry basis) to 2000 g ⁇ mol/ton mixture containing cellulose, depending on the chemical additives and the specific composition of the mixture containing cellulose.
  • the charge is between 0.3 and 100 g ⁇ mol/ton mixture containing cellulose (on a dry basis).
  • the charge is from 0.1 and 500 g ⁇ mol/ton mixture containing cellulose (on a dry basis), preferably from 0.1 to 80 g mol/ton.
  • the reducing agent is added as the at least one agent in at least one stage of a multi-stage bleaching process and/or is added as at least one of at least two agents in at least one stages of a multi-stage bleaching process.
  • the reducing agents can be added simultaneously during the addition of one or more oxidizing agents, known to the expert in the field as the traditional bleaching agents, at one or more stages during a multi-stage bleaching process. It is also conceivable, that adding reducing and oxidizing agents occur as alternating or subsequent steps, optionally separated by steps of washing or otherwise treating the specialty cellulose pulp.
  • the reducing agent may be added together with any other agent or substance, so long as the at least one additional agent does not prevent the reducing agent to at least partly reduce at least a part of the carbonyl groups.
  • the pH achieved in the pulp upon adding the at least one reducing agent is below 12.
  • any agent(s) known to the expert in the field may be used.
  • oxidizing agents may be selected from but are not limited the following group: chlorine, chlorine dioxide, hypochlorite, chlorite, oxygen, per-compounds such as peroxide, and ozone, as well as mixtures of two or more of the aforementioned substances.
  • Another agent that is commonly used during the bleaching process of a specialty cellulose pulp namely sodium hydroxide
  • sodium hydroxide may be added before and/or during and/or after any of the at least one step of bleaching as mentioned above.
  • the main purpose of adding sodium hydroxide is the extraction of at least a part of the hemicellulose portion of the pulp, as well as, to some extent, regulation of the pH value.
  • the amount and/or conditions under which the sodium hydroxide is to be added are known to the expert in the art.
  • the aforementioned treatment of the mixture containing cellulose can be carried out in any reaction device known to the expert in the field in the context of pulp bleaching processes, for example in a bleaching tower, so long as the device is adapted to comply with health and safety issues related to the use of the specific reducing agent(s) and/or any other agent used.
  • the reaction device There are no limitations as to the design and/or function of the reaction device.
  • it may be a vessel or a tube, operated in batch mode or continuously.
  • said reaction device will be a steel tower of the type known to the expert for commercial-scale cellulose pulp bleaching processes.
  • the device will be of dimensions such that cellulose retention time under reaction conditions ranges from up to 6 hours.
  • the device is of sufficient dimensions so that the reaction time ranges up to 3.5 hours.
  • the actual size of the reaction device is, inter alia, determined by the pulp production rate in a continuous process and, correspondingly, by the batch volume in a batch process.
  • the reaction device is fitted with a fan capable of maintaining a level of hydrogen gas well below the explosion limit since hydrogen gas may be generated during treatment with a borohydride. Any other method capable of keeping the amount of hydrogen in the reaction device below the explosion limit, such as hydrogen scavengers, controlled reactions of hydrogen or purging the reaction device with inert gases or mixtures containing inert gases may be used as well.
  • the mixture containing cellulose that is to be subjected to the at least one step of the treatment according to the invention is pumped into the aforementioned reaction device.
  • it is pumped in the device in the form of an aqueous slurry, having a content ranging from 0.1 to 40 wt % of pulp based on dry mass of the mixture containing cellulose, preferably a content ranging from 1 to 25 wt %, further preferred ranging from 5 to 15 wt %.
  • the mixing of the slurry with the reducing agents may take place either inside or outside the reaction device, by means of a chemical mixer or any other means that produces homogeneous mixing. Any other chemicals added to the reactor device (e.g.
  • any mixing takes place outside of the reactor device, as this facilitates the formation of an homogeneous reaction slurry.
  • the process temperature may be chosen to be suitable for all stages.
  • the temperature will be set as to optimize the integrated process, or, if necessary, regulated as to optimize each stage individually.
  • the multistage bleaching process is carried out at a temperature ranging from ambient temperature to 140° C.
  • the temperature for the bleaching process ranges from ambient temperature to 80° C., further preferred from 35° C. to 75° C. and yet further preferred from 50° C. to 60° C.
  • the temperature of the reaction device is set to a value that allows the best combination of bleaching action and chemical reduction of carbonyl groups. In a process stage of the process in which common bleaching chemicals known to the expert in the field are used, temperatures should preferably range from ambient temperature to 80° C., further preferred from 30° C. to 70° C.
  • the heating of the reactor device is effected using heaters or heat-exchangers of the type known to the expert in the field.
  • the pH-value of the pulp slurry containing the previously described active chemical agents should be between 7 and 14.
  • the pH of a preferred embodiment of the invention depends on the full process function of the process stage in question.
  • the pH should be maintained between 8 and 14, in a preferred embodiment between 10 and 13 as to minimize decomposition of the borohydride moiety and subsequent hydrogen gas release.
  • a pH between 11 and 12 is particularly preferred.
  • the pH of the slurry in the reactor device should preferably be set at a value from pH 8 to 14, wherein the specific value chosen should best suit the optimal combination of bleaching and chemical reduction of carbonyl groups in the pulp.
  • a treated mixture containing cellulose is obtained.
  • this mixture is referred to as (treated) “specialty cellulose pulp”, i.e. as a pulp that has been treated and can now be further processed to obtain specialty cellulose products.
  • specialty cellulose pulp i.e. as a pulp that has been treated and can now be further processed to obtain specialty cellulose products.
  • one class of products obtainable from specialty cellulose pulp are cellulose ethers.
  • Said cellulose ethers for example sodium carboxymethylcellulose, methylcellulose, methylhydroxyethylcellulose, methylhydroxypropylcellulose, hydroxyethylcellulose, hydroxypropylcellulose, ethylcellulose, and mixtures of at least two components thereof, are used as additives in a large range of household and industrial products.
  • the main purpose of adding said cellulose ethers to other materials lies in the possibility of controlling the rheological properties of said materials.
  • the viscosity of the cellulose ether solution (henceforth termed cellulose ether viscosity), which is strongly related to the degree of polymerisation (DP) of the cellulose in the pulp feedstock, is therefore one of the most important properties of cellulose ethers.
  • the upper limit of cellulose ether viscosity that can be obtained is per se limited by the upper limit of the cellulose DP in the specialty cellulose pulp from which the cellulose ether is derived, as well as by the DP of the cellulose ether molecule following etherification.
  • the brightness achievable for commercial cellulose ether products is also indirectly limited by the viscosity of the specialty cellulose pulp feed-stock. This is because of a tradeoff in the production of specialty cellulose pulp between high ISO brightness and high cellulose DP in the specialty cellulose pulp.
  • the specialty cellulose pulp as obtained after the inventive treatment with at least one agent capable of reducing carbonyl group and after any other optional treatment, in particular after bleaching in a multi-stage bleaching process, can now be subjected to any step of post-treatment.
  • the specialty cellulose is present in the form of a solid sheet or powder, preferably obtained after at least one step of post-treatment.
  • the specialty cellulose pulp obtained as described above can be subjected to any step of further processing and/or derivatization.
  • Of particular interest in the context of the present invention is any process of forming cellulose derivatives.
  • Cellulose ethers and/or cellulose esters are of particular importance in this context.
  • the specialty cellulose sheets are packed in a roll or sheets of a given configuration determined by the cellulose derivative producer and transported to the cellulose derivative producer. There, the sheets are typically cut up or ground to a powder.
  • the pulp pieces or powder is typically pre-treated with sodium hydroxide at below room temperature and reacted with the desired etherifying agents in an oxygen-free environment at temperatures between 60 and 100° C.
  • the cellulose ether product is washed free of salts, dried and often ground to become the final product.
  • the viscosity of a cellulose ether as obtained from the specialty cellulose pulp as described above can be improved by at least 8-50% using the treatment as disclosed in this invention compared to the same product not subjected to the at least one step of adding of at least one reducing agent during the processing of the specialty cellulose pulp.
  • Characteristic advantages of the method according to the invention over the prior art for etherification products obtained from the specialty cellulose pulp (in a substantially oxygen-free environment) are illustrated in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2.
  • FIG. 1 the effect of the method according to the invention as applied to a mixture containing cellulose from wood pulp is shown.
  • CMC sodium carboxymethyl cellulose
  • FIG. 1 the viscosity of the end product, CMC, (vertical axis; units: mPa s) is shown as a function of the limiting viscosity number of the specialty cellulose pulp as defined in the standard “SCAN-CM 15:99” horizontal axis, units: ml/g).
  • the present invention also relates to the product of the inventive process, i.e. to a treated specialty cellulose pulp obtainable by a process comprising the treatment of a mixture containing cellulose, wherein the treatment comprises at least one step of adding at least one agent capable of reducing carbonyl groups.
  • a treated specialty cellulose pulp obtainable by a process comprising the treatment of a mixture containing cellulose, wherein the treatment comprises at least one step of adding at least one agent capable of reducing carbonyl groups.
  • an integrated process may be employed. This process comprises at least the following steps:
  • step (II) is performed as part of a multi-stage bleaching process.
  • step (III) of post-processing comprises at least one step of removing water and/or of drying at temperatures above room temperature.
  • the specialty cellulose pulp as claimed in this invention can be used for any application for which specialty cellulose pulp is better suited than regular pulp used for the manufacture of paper or cardboard.
  • all applications in which cellulose molecules alone or in combination with other materials can be used, are included.
  • manufacture of cellulose derivatives in particular of cellulose ethers or cellulose esters
  • textile fibers in particular viscose or high tenacity rayon yarn, non-woven fabrics
  • micro-crystalline cellulose formulations for food, in particular as edible diet food, pharmaceutical or cosmetics applications, technical filters, absorbing materials, fluff fibers, photographic papers, as an additive during plastic molding, the use of said fibers in graft copolymerisation, as a component in composite materials, applications in packaging, paints, inks, thickeners, LCD screens, high value specialty papers, laminates, battery separators, electrical circuits and the like.
  • Norway spruce was cooked in batch using the acid sulfite process. Once cooking was complete, the pulp had a mean kappa number (SCAN method C 1:77) of 46. This pulp was transferred to a bleach plant typical of the design found in other bleach plants used in the manufacture of specialty and other cellulose pulps.
  • the pulp bleaching process consists of four distinct, industrial scale stages, working continuously and in series, followed in series by a one stage, industrial-scale embodiment of the inventive treatment. All these stages, with the exception of the inventive treatments, are variations on bleach treatments common in the specialty cellulose and other cellulose pulp industries, and are well known to one skilled in the art.
  • the main treatment at each of the five stages comprising this example is carried out in stainless steel reactors commonly known as bleach towers, some of which are lined inside with chemically resistant materials, typical of those commonly used in the specialty cellulose and other cellulose pulp industries. Some additional but important procedures, such as washing, dilution, filtration, and chemical dosing, are carried out either prior to the pulp entering, or after the pulp leaving the towers. Details of the conditions inside each of the five towers and the bleaching, extraction chemical, and reducing agent dosages used in this example of the invention can be found in Table 1. TABLE 1 Details of the conditions inside the towers at each stage of processing in Example 1. Treatment stage Parameter Units Level E 0 NaOH Kg/ton pulp (dry) 57 Temperature ° C.
  • composition refers to the dry mass of pulp in weight percent with respect to the total mass of pulp.
  • the first stage of this example of the invention is an alkaline extraction.
  • a borohydride is added in the form of Borol Solution® (a 12 wt % solution of sodium borohydride in 40 wt % aqueous sodium hydroxide purchased from Rohm and Haas).
  • the dosage of Borol Solution® was 5 kg/ton pulp (dry basis) which amounts to 15.9 g moles of sodium borohydride per ton dry pulp. This dosage was carried out immediately prior to the pulp entering the tower. Prior to the dosage of sodium borohydride, the pulp was twice washed with deionized water, passed over a filter and press dewatered.
  • the second stage namely the stage (D 0 ), is a chlorine dioxide treatment.
  • the pulp slurry Prior to entering the D 0 tower, the pulp slurry was pressed and washed with deionized water, then washed a second time over a filter.
  • the pH Prior to the pulp entering the D 0 tower, the pH was adjusted to 1.9, and 8.2 kg/ton pulp (dry basis) of chlorine dioxide was dosed. Following this chemical dosage, the consistency of the pulp slurry was 3.5%.
  • the temperature was maintained at 15° C.
  • the residence time of the pulp slurry in the D 0 tower was 43 minutes.
  • the third stage namely the stage (P 0 ), is an oxidative bleaching stage using hydrogen peroxide.
  • the pulp-slurry Prior to entering the P 0 tower, the pulp-slurry was washed with deionized water over a filter. The pH of the pulp slurry was then adjusted to 10.9 using sodium hydroxide, and 2.0 kg/ton pulp (dry basis) hydrogen peroxide was added. The consistency of the pulp slurry was then 10%. In the P 0 tower, the temperature was maintained at 35° C. The residence time of the pulp slurry in the P 0 bleach tower was 125 minutes.
  • the fourth stage namely the stage (D 1 ), is a chlorine dioxide treatment.
  • the pulp Prior to entering the D 1 tower, the pulp was washed with deionized water over a filter. The pH of the pulp slurry was then adjusted to 2.5 using sulphur dioxide, and 10 kg/ton pulp (dry basis) of chlorine dioxide was dosed.
  • the temperature was maintained at 45° C. The residence time of the pulp slurry in the D 1 tower was 148 minutes.
  • the fifth stage of this example of the invention namely the stage (B), has the sole purpose of effecting chemical reduction of the carbonyl groups in the pulp, and is therefore the inventive borohydride treatment.
  • Sodium borohydride was dosed in the form of Borol Solution®.
  • the dosage of Borol Solution® was 5 kg/ton pulp (dry basis), which amounts to 15.9 g moles of sodium borohydride per ton dry pulp. This dosage was carried out immediately prior to the pulp entering the B tower.
  • Prior to the dosage of sodium borohydride the pulp was washed with deionized water over a filter and the pH of the slurry adjusted to 11.5 using sodium hydroxide.
  • the slurry entering the B tower its consistency was 10%.
  • the temperature was maintained at 55° C.
  • the residence time of the pulp slurry in the B tower was 163 minutes.
  • the pulp slurry was washed with deionized water over a filter and the pH adjusted to 4.
  • the pulp was then transported to the drying section of the specialty cellulose manufacturing process, where it was screened, washed in deionized water, and dried to a moisture content of 7%.
  • the dried pulp was packed in a form (approx. 20 ton rolls) typical of finished product specialty cellulose that is ready for sale to other parties wishing to use this as raw material for a cellulose derivatization.
  • the stage P 1 being the 5 th treatment stage during the bleaching of the specialty cellulose pulp in this example, was a hydrogen peroxide treatment.
  • the chemical reactor (bleach tower) used for this treatment was the same tower used as stage B in Example 1.
  • the pulp Prior to entering the P 1 tower, the pulp was washed with deionized water over a filter and 2.5 kg/ton pulp (dry basis) was then dosed simultaneous to the pH of the slurry being adjusted to 11.8 using sodium hydroxide.
  • the slurry entering the P 1 tower its consistency was 10%.
  • the temperature was maintained at 29° C.
  • the residence time of the pulp slurry in the P 1 tower was 163 minutes.
  • the 50 g pulp sample was partitioned into two equal halves of 25 g each. These samples were separately wet and torn into strips in 2.5 L of deionized water. The pulp suspension was then homogenized using a desintegrator (a steel rotor blade of 6 cm diameter rotating at 600 RPM for 30 seconds). Both pulp suspensions were transferred into the same sealable plastic container. Into the pulp suspension was added 0.233 g of Borol Solution®), amounting to 5 kg of Borol Solution®/ton pulp (dry basis), or 15.9 g moles of sodium borohydride per ton pulp (dry basis). The pH was then adjusted to 11.2 using sodium hydroxide.
  • the CMC powder brightness of the CMC obtained from specialty cellulose pulp obtained from Example 3 is 5 units, or 7%, higher than the CMC from example 2. This is despite the two pulps having the same ISO brightness values.
  • Equipment Refrigerator; analytical balance accurate to 1/100 th of gram; Parr-reactor complete with stirring (cooled), external heating-element, internal cooling element, N 2 feed and temperature control; knife mill (Fritsch Pulverisette 19); measuring cylinders (100 ml, 500 ml); glass beaker; plastic beakers (100 ml, 2 liter); graduated pipette (2-10 ml); glass mixing rod; vacuum flask; ceramic vacuum funnel; black band filter paper; watch glass (25 cm diameter); vacuum dryer.
  • the reactor contents were neutralised (phenolphthalein indicator) using an acetic acid solution (5 g acetic acid in 10 ml 87% iso-propanol).
  • the reactor contents were vacuum-filtered and the product was first washed with 700 ml of iso-propanol (87%), then four times with 700 ml of methanol (70%).
  • the filtrate methanol was checked for being chloride free using a few drops of AgNO 3 . No precipitation of AgCl was observed meaning the product was sufficiently chloride free.
  • the washed product was dried in a vacuum drying cabinet at 60° C. over night.
  • the product was weighed to 1/100 th of a gram and its moisture content determined.
  • the product was then ground to a powder of mean particle size of 119 ⁇ m and a particle size distribution as shown in Figure A 1 , in the knife mill.
  • CMC powder was placed into a stainless steel receptor fitted with a threaded press and a glass plate that ensured a pressed, smooth powder surface. After the CMC powder was placed on the glass plate, the press was screwed into place, and the device was turned upside down and disassembled. The powder then lay on the circular glass plate with the smoothed powder surface facing upwards. The plate and powder sample was then placed in a Minolta CM-3630 apparatus, and the CMC powder brightness read at a wavelength of 457 nm. Each sample was prepared twice and the average of brightness readings is reported.
  • FIG. 3 shows a typical particle size distribution of a CMC powder after grinding in the Fritsch Pulvarisette 19 knife mill as used in Examples 1, 2 and 3.
  • the horizontal x-axis represents the particle diameter in ⁇ m while the vertical y-axis represents the volume of the corresponding particles in %.

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