In this study, the kinetic analysis of oxygen delignification of Turkish southern hardwood Kraft pulp was carried out. Kraft pulp was obtained from Mopak Dalaman pulp and paper mill. The kinetic rate data were collected in a 1 L high pressure batch reactor. The delignification experiments were carried out under a wide range of industrially significant conditions of temperature (90, 100 and 110 oC), alkali charge (1, 3, 5% on oven dry pulp), and oxygen partial pressure (0.5, 3.5, 6.5 bar).
In order to achieve this objective, the study is separated into different stages. In the first stage of the work, the mass transfer effects were examined for different pulp consistencies. It was seen that the inter-fiber mass transfer resistances become negligible at the consistencies below 1%. Therefore, the experiments were performed at 0.5% consistency. In the following stage, the kinetics of oxygen delignification was studied and the governing rate equations were derived. Then, the kinetics of the carbohydrate degradation was analyzed in order to determine the extent of delignification without the reduction in the pulp strength. The delignification and the carbohydrate degredation rate during oxygen delignification increase with increasing in alkali concentration, oxygen partial pressure and temperature. However, the most effective parameters are the alkali concentration and temperature. The dimensionless terms for Kappa number, intrinsic viscosity and reaction time were used in order to generalize the results and to make them independent of the initial Kappa number, the intrinsic viscosity, experimental conditions and pulping conditions prior to oxygen delignification. These dimensionless parameters were fitted to nonlinear equations from which the control of the oxygen delignification towers can be done with a simple equation. The same approach was also used for the reported studies in the literature which allowed the comparison with the results of this study.
In the final stage of the study, the simulation of the oxygen delignification unit preceding the CEHDED bleach plant is performed, in order to see the effect of oxygen delignification on the amount of total wastes coming out from the bleach plant. When an oxygen delignification unit is added to the existing CEHDED bleach plant, the amount of pollutants are decreased by 17.96% with output brightness of 92.95. When the overall process parameter optimization of the CEHDED bleach plant is done with oxygen delignification unit, the total amount of dissolved solids coming out from the six washers are decreased by 25.97% with output brightness of 89.5.
In order to reduce the pollution load and chemical consumption in Mopak Dalaman pulp and paper mill, management has decided to install an oxygen delignification unit to the plant. Therefore, the rate equations obtained from this study can form a basis for the design and optimization of oxygen reactor in the mill.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605562/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 November 2004 |
| Creators | Dogan, Ismail |
| Contributors | Yucel, Hayrettin |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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