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EP3901367A1
EP3901367A1 EP20397506.5A EP20397506A EP3901367A1 EP 3901367 A1 EP3901367 A1 EP 3901367A1 EP 20397506 A EP20397506 A EP 20397506A EP 3901367 A1 EP3901367 A1 EP 3901367A1
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Panu Tikka
Ville Tarvo
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    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21CPRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • D21C1/00Pretreatment of the finely-divided materials before digesting
    • D21C1/02Pretreatment of the finely-divided materials before digesting with water or steam
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21CPRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • D21C3/00Pulping cellulose-containing materials
    • D21C3/02Pulping cellulose-containing materials with inorganic bases or alkaline reacting compounds, e.g. sulfate processes
    • DTEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21CPRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • D21C1/00Pretreatment of the finely-divided materials before digesting
    • D21C1/04Pretreatment of the finely-divided materials before digesting with acid reacting compounds

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  • the present invention relates to prehydrolysis of lignocellulosic material.
  • the present invention concerns a method of hydrolysing lignocellulosic chip material with SO 2 -steam mixture.
  • lignocellulosics namely cellulose, hemicelluloses and lignin must be separated from each other and the fractions to be turned into corresponding intermediate bioproducts, cellulose fiber, carbohydrate solution (hydrolysate) and lignin solution or solids.
  • H. Handbook of Pulp prehydrolysis is generally used to selectively remove the hemicelluloses from the lignocellulosic biomass by hydrolysis in water at 160-180 °C, in dilute acid (0.3-0.5% H 2 SO 4 ) at 120-140 °C or in concentrated acid (20-30% HCl) at 40 °C.
  • Dilute mineral acids are efficient in hemicellulose hydrolysis, but they bring along corrosion and material problems and have an adverse effect on lignin - deactivation by acid catalyzed condensation reactions - which makes it more difficult to remove lignin and bleach the cellulosic fibers. So far, all the few industrial continuous prehydrolysis-kraft pulp processes use water prehydrolysis prior to the kraft cooking stage.
  • Prehydrolysis products from wood are considered to be a source for chemicals, fodder, food additives and pharmaceutical products. Both the high yield of the prehydrolysis released carbohydrate compounds and the efficient production of the high value products are prerequisites for a feasible industrial process.
  • SO 2 -water based prehydrolysis has a unique advantage: it sulphonates the low-molecular phenolic compounds to some extent, thus making them hydrophilic and lowering the scaling plugging tendency in prehydrolysis as well as in the hydrolysate refining operation.
  • the above described segregates prehydrolysis technology into two areas, the continuous prehydrolysis-kraft process using the water based prehydrolysis and the discontinuous batch prehydrolysis-kraft process using steam-phase prehydrolysis.
  • the steam-phase has been a winner so far, but it has one major drawback: it is not possible to use any hydrolyzing agents such as acid SO 2 -water, etc., because there is no aqueous phase to enable transfer, carrying and mixing of chemicals.
  • a method for hydrolysing lignocellulosic material in a reaction vessel by a hydrolysis reaction carried out in the presence of steam at a reaction temperature comprises the steps of:
  • the present invention provides a method that reduces the use of highly corrosive SO 2 -water and introduces a feasible hydrolysing method with the use of SO 2 -steam mixture in controlled conditions.
  • the SO 2 -steam hydrolysis does not reduce the pulp's yield, viscosity, kappa number or pentosane content. Especially is surprising that the pulp yield does not decrease when using the SO 2 -steam hydrolysis.
  • the use of SO 2 according to the present invention is the most efficient in view of the SO 2 concentration in the small amount of condensate and chip water (about 1 ton water per 1 ton of dry biomass); this is quite contrary to the situation in the water liquid-phase prehydrolysis, where the SO 2 dilutes in the big amount of water filling the entire reactor (4-5 tons water per 1 ton dry biomass).
  • the reactions are most effective when the reagent concentration is high. Achieving high concentration in small amount of diluting reaction media also enables the lowest possible reagent dosage and chemical cost as well as saving in the heating energy needed.
  • the present invention combines the hydrolysis reactor input streams, the heating direct steam serves simultaneously as the carrying media for the SO 2 to enter and spread into the reactor content; a very simple operation saves process time, extra equipment and operational steps.
  • hydrolysate liquid contains much more monomeric carbohydrates than is the case in water-based auto-hydrolysis. This is technically an important advantage as the water-hydrolysis dissolved poly- and oligomeric carbohydrates must be hydrolysed to monomers later anyway.
  • the SO 2 charge needed for the prehydrolysis is allocated so that the last part of the direct steam input flows without SO 2 in order to flush the input pipe/inlet connection and prehydrolysis reaction temperature is reached.
  • the SO 2 addition becomes a part of the heating media, i.e. of the input flow of the steam, and is being transferred on the chip particles with condensing steam and thereby absorbed into the chip particles.
  • FIGURE 1 illustrates a batch reactor in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present invention.
  • hydrolysate liquid is where the hydrolysis reaction products accumulate.
  • oven dry wood weight means oven dry wood weight. It is the weight after all the moisture has been evaporated.
  • EA means effective alkali. It is the sum of the sodium hydroxide and half of the sodium sulphide in the white liquor.
  • dry means non-aqueous
  • pressure unit "bar” is absolute pressure.
  • pressure difference "bar” is the differential pressure.
  • hydrolysis is used for the chemical reaction of removal of hemicelluloses from lignocellulosic material.
  • prehydrolysis is the hydrolysis reaction before a cooking process.
  • Figure 1 presents a batch digester in accordance with at least some embodiments of the present invention.
  • the digester In the starting situation the digester is empty. The process starts by wood chips filling, through the feeding hopper and digester capping valve 1. Often chip packing is intensified by steam jets giving more speed to falling chips. During the chip fill, gases are evacuated out from the middle screens 5, through the cooking circulation pipeline 6. In an embodiment, air is removed from the digester.
  • the first heating stage towards reaction temperature and pressure is carried out by low pressure steam through top screens 2, bottom screens 7 and valves 3, 11, 15 and 9, 10, 15.
  • the first low pressure steam heating stage elevates the temperature close to the corresponding saturated steam temperature at the prevailing pressure.
  • the first heating stage pressure is 3 - 5 bar and the first heating stage temperature is 125 - 150 °C.
  • the time for this heating stage is 15 - 45 minutes
  • the medium pressure is at least 1 bar higher than the corresponding pressure of saturated steam at reaction temperature of the hydrolysis.
  • the medium pressure is 6 - 10 bar.
  • the time for this heating stage is 5 - 25 minutes
  • the total time for heating to the desired hydrolysis temperature is 20 - 60 minutes, preferably about 45 minutes.
  • SO 2 is introduced into the flowing heating steam.
  • the pure steam is allowed to fill the reaction vessel and condense onto the chips, after this liquid SO 2 is injected to the steam, then ending the SO 2 injection so that a clear pure steam feed phase is the last part of the heating steam flow.
  • SO 2 injection is placed into the steam flow securing that all the pipe lines and valves etc. are above condensing temperature, but on the other hand there is enough pure steam flow to purge all pipelines and valves etc. clean from SO 2 before the end of steam flow.
  • the predetermined SO 2 dosage in the SO 2 injection is at least 0.15 % odw, preferably at least 0.20 % odw, for example 0.25 % odw.
  • the hydrolysis of the lignocellulosic material is partial.
  • the temperature is maintained until a predetermined degree of hydrolysis of the lignocellulosic material has been reached.
  • the pentosan content of the pulp is - as a result of the prehydrolysis - less than 4.5 % by weight, in particular less than 4.2 % by weight, for example about 4 to about 3.5 % by weight of the pulp.
  • hydrolysis of the lignocellulosic material will lead to a pentosan content of 4 wt-% or under of the mass of the fiber.
  • the injection of SO 2 charge takes place by pumping a predetermined mass-flow of liquid SO 2 from pipeline or SO 2 (1) storage 14, through valve 12 into the steam pipe 13 through injection pipe 12b over a predetermined period of time.
  • mass flow of liquid SO 2 is very small compared to the tons of steam flow, the liquid SO 2 is immediately and completely vaporized in the steam flow. This means that the flow of steam and gaseous flow is dry, avoiding corrosion and difficult material selections.
  • the steam flow into the chip bed digester carries the SO 2 in all the space of the digester as the heating-by-condensing-steam is the main mechanism, local steam pressure decreases and the gradient is withdrawing and spreading steam and SO 2 everywhere.
  • the target reaction temperature is 150-175 °C, preferably 160-165 °C and the desired reaction time is 15-60 minutes, preferably about 30 minutes.
  • Sulphur dioxide, SO 2 in the steam, absorbed on the chip surface is quickly transferred to the chip interior together with the heat.
  • a uniform SO 2 enhanced prehydrolysis is achieved in all parts of the digester - without using any external SO 2 -water, water phase hydrolysis, re-circulations, indirect heating etc.
  • the chips After prehydrolysis, the chips are subjected to kraft cooking. As a result of the prehydrolysis carried out as described in the fore-going using steam containing gaseous SO 2 , there is practically no free condensate or water-phase in the digester, and the burden of removing this liquid phase is completely avoided.
  • Liquid dry SO 2 is injected from a storage tank directly into the steam pipe/inlet connection into the hydrolysis reactor (batch digester) and the inflowing heating steam carries and distributes the SO 2 all over the reactor space as a part of the steam flow into every part of the chip filled reactor pulled by the pressure gradient generated by the condensing steam on the wood chips.
  • the spread SO 2 gas absorbs on the moist chip particle surfaces and subsequently penetrates and diffuses into the wood chips.
  • the kraft cooking is carried out as known in the art. It can be a conventional kraft batch cooking, where first white liquor is added and then the reaction vessel is heated, next the white liquor is circulated through screen 5 to cooking circulation pipeline 6 and pumped up to valve 3 and down to valve 9 and fed back into the reaction vessel through screens 2 and 7.
  • An option to the conventional kraft batch cooking is a so called "displacement kraft batch cooking" process where several filling and displacements take place.
  • the prehydrolysed and cooked - chemically defibrated pulp - is discharged through bottom curve 17 and valve 8 to fibre line feed 16.
  • prehydrolysis part may have different process equipment and instrumentation embodiments, such as separate steam connections and lines, different screen designs, flow of steam and SO 2 (g) injection only from bottom or from top, or both and multiple points.
  • the present invention has preferred embodiments in batch reactor processes, but it is not limited to only batch process. It is evident that steam-phase hydrolysis could be constructed to be a continuous process when the chip feeding and discharging machine organs are designed and constructed to operate continuously. In that case SO 2 would be injected into the entering steam, in particular medium pressure steam.
  • pulp technical results of these experiments are characterized by pulp pentosan content. This is the main quality parameter of this type pulp and it is controlled by the prehydrolysis reaction degree (hydrolytic removal of xylan hemicelluloses from the wood).
  • the pulp buying textile industry's standard for prime pulp is pentosan content 3.5-4.0 %. It is evident that this pentosan range is well met at 0.2-0.25 % SO 2 (g) charge.
  • pulp yield pulp delignification degree (kappa number), pulp viscosity are at quite the same level regardless of using SO 2 (g).
  • SO 2 SO 2

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