Pulp bleaching reactor for dispersing high consistency pulp into a gaseous bleaching agent containing ozone
US5863389A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 8, 1994 |
| Grant date | Jan 26, 1999 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 8, 2014 |
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- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB01F27/1145
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
An apparatus for delignifying and bleaching a lignocellulosic pulp without the use of elemental chlorine. The bleaching reactor is a horizontal vessel having a central rotatable shaft which preferably contains paddles, cut and folded screw flights or a ribbon flight, to disperse and advance the pulp particles in a plug flow manner while contacting and mixing the pulp particles with a gaseous bleaching agent such as ozone for substantially uniform bleaching thereof.
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