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Pulpping Process   20/04/2022


In digital era, paper products have been transformed into environmentally friendly materials due to their biodegradable properties. The principle of papermaking is very simple actually. Even in modern papermaking, the process is not much different from the original, just replaced by machine.


Papermaking can be mainly divided into two stages, namely pulping stage, and papermaking stage. According to the final requirements, coating and processing stage can also be added later. The first stage is pulping, which includes digestion, washing, screening, and bleaching. The major material of pulp is raw wood, recycle paper can also be recycled and disintegrated into pulp again. After the pulpwood is peeled and chopped, the wood chips will be treated with chemicals such as sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfate under the high-pressure environment in digester for delignified.


The washing process requires the addition of sodium hydroxide and chlorine for deinking. The bleaching process is required the use of sodium hypochlorite, hydrogen peroxide and chlorine dioxide for bleaching and improvement of brightness.

Several chemicals are also used throughout the processes. For example, it is necessary to add enhancers, degassing agents, defoamer, flocculants, etc. According to the requirements of the finished product, there are also needs to be sizing to enhance the anti-permeability or adding talc/titanium dioxide/gypsum/clay to enhance the optical effect of the pulp, etc.


Digester

Black liquor is a by-product from the pulping process. It is mainly the aqueous solution of lignin residues decomposed from the pulpwood during the digesting process, and the organic chemical and inorganic substances. Black liquor should not be discharge directly. It would be combusted with sodium sulfate in recovery boiler and obtained molten salts ("smelt"). Then it is mixed with the calcium oxide, which is obtained by calcining calcium carbonate, and become calcium hydroxide in solution to regenerate white liquor used in pulping process.


The pulp will be water drains off and dried as a sheet of pulp for the further papermaking stage.


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