Monoethanolamine (MEA) pulping of beech and spruce wood for production of dissolving pulp
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Iris Claus
Abstract
Delignification with the use of monoethanolamine (MEA) is an innovative, environmentally friendly chemical pulping process that, in contrast to conventional pulping methods, works without the use of sulphur compounds. Of particular benefit is the simple MEA recovery by distillation, allowing black liquor combustion to be dispensed with and the dissolved lignin to be gained. The MEA process is suitable for pulping both hardwood (e.g. beech) and softwood (e.g. spruce). Compared with conventional processes, the MEA process has the advantage of achieving a high degree of delignification through an increase in temperature during pulping without any appreciable damage to the cellulose. When manufacturing dissolving pulps, however, this specific selectivity of MEA requires the removal of the hemicelluloses in an additional stage, preferably by acid prehydrolysis. The conditions of this prehydrolysis step must be selected specifically to be in keeping with the ultimate use of the dissolving pulp, as this stage involves the cellulose chains being chemically attacked. The residual lignin is removed after pulping in a sequence of different bleaching stages. Substituting MEA for the sodium hydroxide solution required as a bleaching alkali in the oxygen delignification stage proves to be especially beneficial, as in this case the COD after bleaching can be considerably reduced by treating the bleaching filtrate from this stage jointly with the effluents from the MEA pulping process.
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Subject Index
- Contents
- Species Index
- Author Index
- Monoethanolamine (MEA) pulping of beech and spruce wood for production of dissolving pulp
- Voltammetric analysis of the bleachability of softwood kraft pulps
- Alkaline degradation of model compounds related to beech xylan
- Effect of UV radiation on the carbonyl distribution in different pulps
- Changes in the lignin-carbohydrate complex in softwood kraft pulp during kraft and oxygen delignification
- Carbohydrate structures in residual lignin-carbohydrate complexes of spruce and pine pulp
- Ozonation of pine kraft lignin in alkaline solution. Part 1: Ozonation, characterization of kraft lignin and its ozonated preparations
- Ozonation of pine kraft lignin in alkaline solution. Part 2: Surface active properties of the ozonated kraft lignins
- Lignin reactions in oxygen delignification catalysed by Mn(II)-substituted molybdovanadophosphate polyanion
- Bioactive phenolic substances in industrially important tree species. Part 2: Knots and stemwood of fir species
- Evaluation of hydrocarbon emissions from heart- and sapwood of Scots pine using a laboratory-scale wood drier
- Effect of pulsating tension-torsion combined loading on fatigue behavior in wood
- Effects of density and microfibril orientation on the vertical variation of low-stiffness wood in radiata pine butt logs
- Determination of the natural durability of larch wood (Larix decidua Mill.) from the Western Italian Alps
- High-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of soluble and total oxalate in Ca- and Mg-amended liquid cultures of three wood decay fungi
- Artificial weathering of tropical woods. Part 1: Changes in wettability and Artificial weathering of tropical woods. Part II: Color change
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Subject Index
- Contents
- Species Index
- Author Index
- Monoethanolamine (MEA) pulping of beech and spruce wood for production of dissolving pulp
- Voltammetric analysis of the bleachability of softwood kraft pulps
- Alkaline degradation of model compounds related to beech xylan
- Effect of UV radiation on the carbonyl distribution in different pulps
- Changes in the lignin-carbohydrate complex in softwood kraft pulp during kraft and oxygen delignification
- Carbohydrate structures in residual lignin-carbohydrate complexes of spruce and pine pulp
- Ozonation of pine kraft lignin in alkaline solution. Part 1: Ozonation, characterization of kraft lignin and its ozonated preparations
- Ozonation of pine kraft lignin in alkaline solution. Part 2: Surface active properties of the ozonated kraft lignins
- Lignin reactions in oxygen delignification catalysed by Mn(II)-substituted molybdovanadophosphate polyanion
- Bioactive phenolic substances in industrially important tree species. Part 2: Knots and stemwood of fir species
- Evaluation of hydrocarbon emissions from heart- and sapwood of Scots pine using a laboratory-scale wood drier
- Effect of pulsating tension-torsion combined loading on fatigue behavior in wood
- Effects of density and microfibril orientation on the vertical variation of low-stiffness wood in radiata pine butt logs
- Determination of the natural durability of larch wood (Larix decidua Mill.) from the Western Italian Alps
- High-performance liquid chromatographic analysis of soluble and total oxalate in Ca- and Mg-amended liquid cultures of three wood decay fungi
- Artificial weathering of tropical woods. Part 1: Changes in wettability and Artificial weathering of tropical woods. Part II: Color change
