Black liquor impregnation in digester
US6063238A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | May 6, 1998 |
| Grant date | May 16, 2000 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | May 6, 2018 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC D)Textiles; Paper
- CPC primaryD21C11/0021
- WIPO fieldTextile and paper machines
- WIPO sectorMechanical engineering
Abstract
The present invention relates to a digester and a method for continuously cooking kraft pulp in a single-vessel system (1), preferably a single-vessel hydraulic digester, with chips (2) being fed in at a first end (3) of the digester (1), white liquor (4) being added at at least one position at or near the said first end (3), the chips being impregnated in a cocurrent impregnation zone (5), the chips being cooked in a cooking zone (6) downstream of the impregnation zone, hot black liquor (7) being extracted from at least one extraction strainer section (8), and cooked pulp being discharged (9) at the other end of the digester, and hot black liquor (7) being added (11), (12) to the said impregnation zone (5), and the extract (13) from the first strainer section (14), which is arranged downstream of the position of addition (11a) of the said hot black liquor (7), being largely removed from the digester.
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