EP0513140A1 - A process for the bleaching of chemical pulp. - Google Patents

A process for the bleaching of chemical pulp.

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EP0513140A1
EP0513140A1 EP91903684A EP91903684A EP0513140A1 EP 0513140 A1 EP0513140 A1 EP 0513140A1 EP 91903684 A EP91903684 A EP 91903684A EP 91903684 A EP91903684 A EP 91903684A EP 0513140 A1 EP0513140 A1 EP 0513140A1
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Marja Vaheri
Kimmo Ruohoniemi
Hannu Sonni
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    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • D21C5/00—Other processes for obtaining cellulose, e.g. cooking cotton linters ; Processes characterised by the choice of cellulose-containing starting materials
    • D21C5/005—Treatment of cellulose-containing material with microorganisms or enzymes
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • D21C9/00—After-treatment of cellulose pulp, e.g. of wood pulp, or cotton linters ; Treatment of dilute or dewatered pulp or process improvement taking place after obtaining the raw cellulosic material and not provided for elsewhere
    • D21C9/10—Bleaching ; Apparatus therefor
    • D21C9/1057—Multistage, with compounds cited in more than one sub-group D21C9/10, D21C9/12, D21C9/16
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • D21C9/00—After-treatment of cellulose pulp, e.g. of wood pulp, or cotton linters ; Treatment of dilute or dewatered pulp or process improvement taking place after obtaining the raw cellulosic material and not provided for elsewhere
    • D21C9/10—Bleaching ; Apparatus therefor
    • D21C9/12—Bleaching ; Apparatus therefor with halogens or halogen-containing compounds
    • D21C9/14—Bleaching ; Apparatus therefor with halogens or halogen-containing compounds with ClO2 or chlorites
    • D21C9/142—Bleaching ; Apparatus therefor with halogens or halogen-containing compounds with ClO2 or chlorites with ClO2/Cl2 in a multistage process involving ClO2/Cl2 exclusively
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • D21C9/00—After-treatment of cellulose pulp, e.g. of wood pulp, or cotton linters ; Treatment of dilute or dewatered pulp or process improvement taking place after obtaining the raw cellulosic material and not provided for elsewhere
    • D21C9/10—Bleaching ; Apparatus therefor
    • D21C9/147—Bleaching ; Apparatus therefor with oxygen or its allotropic modifications
    • D—TEXTILES; PAPER
    • D21—PAPER-MAKING; PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE
    • D21C—PRODUCTION OF CELLULOSE BY REMOVING NON-CELLULOSE SUBSTANCES FROM CELLULOSE-CONTAINING MATERIALS; REGENERATION OF PULPING LIQUORS; APPARATUS THEREFOR
    • D21C9/00—After-treatment of cellulose pulp, e.g. of wood pulp, or cotton linters ; Treatment of dilute or dewatered pulp or process improvement taking place after obtaining the raw cellulosic material and not provided for elsewhere
    • D21C9/10—Bleaching ; Apparatus therefor
    • D21C9/16—Bleaching ; Apparatus therefor with per compounds
    • D21C9/163—Bleaching ; Apparatus therefor with per compounds with peroxides

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  • the present invention relates to a process for the bleaching of chemical pulp, process which comprises at least one bleaching step and at least one alkali treatment step and in which the pulp is ' treated with an enzyme.
  • the chemical pulp obtained by sulfate cooking is brown in color, which is mainly due to lignin remaining in the pulp.
  • Lignin. is removed by bleaching, which is usually a multiple-step-, process in which the pulp is treated alternately with oxidizing chemicals which decompose lignin and with chem ⁇ icals which dissolve the substances produced as products of the decomposition.
  • oxidizing chemicals have been chorine-containing substances and oxygen, whereas alkali solutions have been used as chemicals removing the decomposi ⁇ tion products.
  • the chlorine-containing bleaching chemicals When reacting, the chlorine-containing bleaching chemicals convert the lignin present in the pulp into organic chlorine compounds, which will pass into the bleaching effluents removed from the pulp.
  • the bleaching effluents constitute an environ ⁇ mental problem owing to the potential toxicity of the organic chlorine compounds passing into the effluents, and also the values of chemical oxygen consumption in the bleaching ef ⁇ fluents are detrimentally high.
  • the bleaching effluents which load the environment the worst are produced in the washing steps following the first chlorina- tion and the first alkali step of the bleaching.
  • Efforts have been made to decrease the load by various methods, for example by replacing the chlorine gas with chlorine dioxide or by using oxygen as the oxidizing chemical in the first step.
  • fully satisfactory results have not been achieved by these methods.
  • Efforts to decrease the quantities of chlorophenols and other toxic chlorine compounds in the effluents have indeed been successful, but the values of chemical oxygen consumption of the effluents have not decreased. Therefore, effective bio ⁇ logical purification has been needed to back up the said methods.
  • the residual chlor ⁇ ine content of a pulp bleached by using chlorine chemicals can also be decreased by an enzyme treatment. It is proposed that the enzyme treatment should in this case be carried out either before the oxidation and alkali steps of the bleaching or after them.
  • the object of the present invention is to provide a new method, based on enzyme treatment of pulp, by which pulp can be bleached in such a manner that the need for bleaching chemicals decreases and at the same time the chemical oxygen consumption and toxicity of the bleaching effluent decrease so that the need for water purification will be smaller. It is characteris ⁇ tic of the invention that the pulp is treated with an enzyme in two or more steps of the bleaching process, in such a manner that in each enzyme treatment step the pulp is subjected to a treatment substantially different from that in the directly preceding or subsequent step of the process.
  • the expedient number of enzyme treatment steps in the bleaching process according to the invention is from two to four.
  • One preferred process, which includes three enzyme treatment steps comprises as the first step an enzyme treatment of the pulp obtained from the cooking and as the following steps an oxida ⁇ tion of the pulp with an oxidizing chemical, a second enzyme treatment, a treatment with an alkali, and a third enzyme treatment, in the said order. After these steps the bleaching of the pulp may further continue in one or several bleaching and/or alkali treatment steps.
  • At least one enzyme treatment step is followed in the process by a treatment with alkali, in which an oxidizing chemical, such as oxygen or peroxide, is used besides the alkali.
  • an oxidizing chemical such as oxygen or peroxide
  • the enzyme treatments break down the hemicellulose and/or lignin present in the pulp and make the pulp more porous, thus increasing the action of the chemicals in subsequent pulp treatment steps.
  • the enzyme treatment may be followed by a washing of the pulp, removing constituents broken down from the pulp; these con ⁇ stituents can be led to a burning so that they will cause no effluent load but the energy contained in them can be exploited in the energy supply of the mill.
  • the pulp bleaching according to the invention can be carried out in the conventional manner so that the oxidation and alkali steps alternate. After the various steps the pulp can be washed in order to remove the bleaching chemicals and the broken-down constituents.
  • the enzyme treatment is preferably carried out within a temperature range of 10-90 °C, preferably within 40-80 °C, and at a pH of 3.3-11.0, preferably 4.0-10.0.
  • the enzyme used may be hemicellulase, cellulase, pectinase, esterase, ligninase, phenol oxidase, or a mixture of the same.
  • Hemicellulases and laccase which belongs to phenol oxidases, are particularly preferred.
  • the process includes at least two separate enzyme treatment steps, in which at least two different enzymes are used.
  • the process may thus begin, for example, with a hemicellulase treatment, which is followed by a laccase treatment after the oxidation step, and by another hemicellulase treatment after the subsequent alkali step.
  • the enzyme treatments can also take place successively in the process.
  • the pulp was subjected to an oxidizing bleaching treat ⁇ ment by using a mixture which contained 50 % chlorine dioxide and 50 % chlorine gas.
  • the mixture was proportioned at 2.0 x the kappa number after the pulping.
  • the treatment temperature was 40 °C and the treatment time 45 min and the consistency of the pulp 3.5 %.
  • the pulp was subjected to an alkali treatment by using a 2-% sodium hydroxide solution the proportion of which was 0.9 x kappa.
  • the consistency of the mixture was 10 %, and the treat ⁇ ment temperature was 60 °C and 'the treatment time 90 min.
  • the pulp was washed with a 20-fold amount of water.
  • the bleaching was continued by repeating the enzyme step by using the same enzyme mixture as in the first step and the oxidation step by using chlorine dioxide and by washing the pulp between the steps as described above.
  • the amount of enzyme in the second enzyme treatment was 2.5 U/g of pulp.
  • the amount of chlorine dioxide in the second oxidizing step was 1.5 % of the amount of the pulp being bleached.
  • Experiment 1 (reference experiment): the pulp was not subjected to a second enzyme treatment. In other respects the experiment corresponded to that described above (Experiment 2) .

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Abstract

The invention relates to a process for the bleaching of chemical pulp, process which comprises one or several oxidation steps and one or several alkali treatment steps and in which the pulp is treated with an enzyme. The essential idea of the invention is that the pulp is treated with an enzyme in two or more different steps of the process, an oxidation and/or alkali treatment being most preferably carried out between the enzyme treatment steps. The oxidizing chemical used is most preferably oxygen, although peroxide and/or chlorine and/or chlorine dioxide can also be used in addition to or instead of it, and in the enzyme treatment steps, which preferably number 2-4, the same enzyme or alternatively two or more different enzymes may be used. By the enzyme treatment according to the invention, the amount of toxic organic compounds inthe bleaching effluent is decreased and at the same time the chemical oxygen consumption of the effluent is decreased.

Description

A process for the bleaching of chemical pulp
The present invention relates to a process for the bleaching of chemical pulp, process which comprises at least one bleaching step and at least one alkali treatment step and in which the pulp is' treated with an enzyme.
Especially the chemical pulp obtained by sulfate cooking is brown in color, which is mainly due to lignin remaining in the pulp. Lignin. is removed by bleaching, which is usually a multiple-step-, process in which the pulp is treated alternately with oxidizing chemicals which decompose lignin and with chem¬ icals which dissolve the substances produced as products of the decomposition. The most commonly used oxidizing chemicals have been chorine-containing substances and oxygen, whereas alkali solutions have been used as chemicals removing the decomposi¬ tion products.
When reacting, the chlorine-containing bleaching chemicals convert the lignin present in the pulp into organic chlorine compounds, which will pass into the bleaching effluents removed from the pulp. The bleaching effluents constitute an environ¬ mental problem owing to the potential toxicity of the organic chlorine compounds passing into the effluents, and also the values of chemical oxygen consumption in the bleaching ef¬ fluents are detrimentally high.
The bleaching effluents which load the environment the worst are produced in the washing steps following the first chlorina- tion and the first alkali step of the bleaching. Efforts have been made to decrease the load by various methods, for example by replacing the chlorine gas with chlorine dioxide or by using oxygen as the oxidizing chemical in the first step. However, fully satisfactory results have not been achieved by these methods. Efforts to decrease the quantities of chlorophenols and other toxic chlorine compounds in the effluents have indeed been successful, but the values of chemical oxygen consumption of the effluents have not decreased. Therefore, effective bio¬ logical purification has been needed to back up the said methods.
In recent investigations it has been observed that by using enzymes as an aid in bleaching it is possible to separate lig¬ nin and/or hemicellulose from cellulose and to make the pulp in this manner easier to bleach in the subsequent bleaching steps. According to FI Patent Application 881192, the residual chlor¬ ine content of a pulp bleached by using chlorine chemicals can also be decreased by an enzyme treatment. It is proposed that the enzyme treatment should in this case be carried out either before the oxidation and alkali steps of the bleaching or after them.
The object of the present invention is to provide a new method, based on enzyme treatment of pulp, by which pulp can be bleached in such a manner that the need for bleaching chemicals decreases and at the same time the chemical oxygen consumption and toxicity of the bleaching effluent decrease so that the need for water purification will be smaller. It is characteris¬ tic of the invention that the pulp is treated with an enzyme in two or more steps of the bleaching process, in such a manner that in each enzyme treatment step the pulp is subjected to a treatment substantially different from that in the directly preceding or subsequent step of the process.
According to the invention it has thus been observed that the action of enzymes is enhanced when they are used in several different steps, preferably between the oxidation and alkali steps belonging to the process. It has been noted that an en¬ zyme treatment carried out at the beginning of the bleaching step enables the amount of chlorine chemicals used to be de¬ creased by approx. 25 %, and thus the repeated enzyme treat- ments according to the invention will result in considerably higher savings in bleaching chemicals.
The expedient number of enzyme treatment steps in the bleaching process according to the invention is from two to four. One preferred process, which includes three enzyme treatment steps, comprises as the first step an enzyme treatment of the pulp obtained from the cooking and as the following steps an oxida¬ tion of the pulp with an oxidizing chemical, a second enzyme treatment, a treatment with an alkali, and a third enzyme treatment, in the said order. After these steps the bleaching of the pulp may further continue in one or several bleaching and/or alkali treatment steps.
In order to minimize the amount of organic chlorine compounds in effluents and in the obtained bleached chemical pulp, it is advantageous to use oxygen and/or hydrogen peroxide and/or chlorine dioxide in the oxidation steps of the process. By this procedure the amount of organic chlorine compounds in the ef¬ fluents can be decreased by more than 90 % also in the bleach¬ ing of softwood pulp, which has not been possible by using the prior-art methods.
According to one preferred embodiment of the invention, at least one enzyme treatment step is followed in the process by a treatment with alkali, in which an oxidizing chemical, such as oxygen or peroxide, is used besides the alkali. It has been ob¬ served that such an oxidizing alkali treatment decreases espe¬ cially effectively the need for chlorine chemicals in bleach¬ ing.
In the bleaching process according to the invention, the enzyme treatments break down the hemicellulose and/or lignin present in the pulp and make the pulp more porous, thus increasing the action of the chemicals in subsequent pulp treatment steps. The enzyme treatment may be followed by a washing of the pulp, removing constituents broken down from the pulp; these con¬ stituents can be led to a burning so that they will cause no effluent load but the energy contained in them can be exploited in the energy supply of the mill.
With the exception of the enzyme treatment steps, the pulp bleaching according to the invention can be carried out in the conventional manner so that the oxidation and alkali steps alternate. After the various steps the pulp can be washed in order to remove the bleaching chemicals and the broken-down constituents.
According to the invention, the enzyme treatment is preferably carried out within a temperature range of 10-90 °C, preferably within 40-80 °C, and at a pH of 3.3-11.0, preferably 4.0-10.0. The enzyme used may be hemicellulase, cellulase, pectinase, esterase, ligninase, phenol oxidase, or a mixture of the same. Hemicellulases and laccase, which belongs to phenol oxidases, are particularly preferred.
It is possible to use one and the same enzyme, such as hemicel¬ lulase, in the enzyme treatments belonging to the process ac¬ cording to the invention. It is also possible that the process includes at least two separate enzyme treatment steps, in which at least two different enzymes are used. The process may thus begin, for example, with a hemicellulase treatment, which is followed by a laccase treatment after the oxidation step, and by another hemicellulase treatment after the subsequent alkali step. When different enzymes are used, the enzyme treatments can also take place successively in the process.
The invention is described below in greater detail with the help of an embodiment example, based on laboratory experiments.
Example
To 300 g of pulp solids obtained from pine sulfate cooking (solids content of pulp 30 %) was added a diluted enzyme mix¬ ture Pulpzyme (Novo, hemicellulase) so as to make the consis¬ tency of the pulp 10 % and its xylanase activity 5 U/g of pulp solids. Before this the pH of the pulp had been adjusted by means of acetic acid to a level of 5.5-6.0. The temperature of the enzyme treatment was 55 °C and the treatment time 2 h.
After the enzyme treatment the pulp was washed with water.
Next, the pulp was subjected to an oxidizing bleaching treat¬ ment by using a mixture which contained 50 % chlorine dioxide and 50 % chlorine gas. The mixture was proportioned at 2.0 x the kappa number after the pulping. The treatment temperature was 40 °C and the treatment time 45 min and the consistency of the pulp 3.5 %.
Next, the pulp was subjected to an alkali treatment by using a 2-% sodium hydroxide solution the proportion of which was 0.9 x kappa. The consistency of the mixture was 10 %, and the treat¬ ment temperature was 60 °C and 'the treatment time 90 min. After the alkali treatment the pulp was washed with a 20-fold amount of water.
Thereafter the bleaching was continued by repeating the enzyme step by using the same enzyme mixture as in the first step and the oxidation step by using chlorine dioxide and by washing the pulp between the steps as described above. In this case the amount of enzyme in the second enzyme treatment was 2.5 U/g of pulp. The amount of chlorine dioxide in the second oxidizing step was 1.5 % of the amount of the pulp being bleached.
The bleached pulp was analyzed. The results are shown in the following Table 1.
In addition to the experiment (Experiment 2) described above and illustrating the invention, a reference experiment (Experi- ment 1) was carried out, the results of which are also shown in the following Table 1.
The experiments were carried out as follows:
Experiment 1 (reference experiment): the pulp was not subjected to a second enzyme treatment. In other respects the experiment corresponded to that described above (Experiment 2) .
Table 1
Experi¬ Experi¬ ment 1 ment 2 (reference)
1st enzyme treatment
- enzyme proportion (1/t)
C102/C1 ratio Kappa
PH
- enzyme step
- oxidation step (CIO2/CI)
- alkali step
Consumption of active chlorine (%)
Intermediate kappa
2nd enzyme treatment (1/t)
PH
- 2nd enzyme step
- oxidation step (CIO2)
- SO2 step beginning/end
Whiteness (ISO)
For an expert in the art it is evident that the various embodi¬ ments of the invention are not limited to the examples de¬ scribed above but may vary within the scope of the accompanying patent claims.

Claims

Claims
1. A process for the bleaching of chemical pulp, process which comprises at minimum one oxidation step and at minimum one alkali treatment step and in which the pulp is treated with an enzyme, characterized in that the pulp is treated with an enzyme in two or more steps of the bleaching process in such a manner th?t in each enzyme treatment step the pulp receives, a treatment substantially different from that in the immediately preceding or subsequent process step.
2. A process according to Claim 1, characterized in that the process includes 2-4 separate enzyme treatment steps.
3. A process according to Claim 2, characterized in that the process includes three separate enzyme treatment steps.
4. A process according to Claim 3, characterized in that the first step of the bleaching process is an enzyme treatment of the pulp and the subsequent steps are an oxidation of the pulp with an oxidizing chemical, a second enzyme treatment, a treatment with an alkali, and a third enzyme treatment, in the said sequence, whereafter the bleaching of the pulp is further continued in one or several oxidation and/or alkali treatment steps.
5. A process according to any of the above claims, charac¬ terized in that the oxidizing chemical used in one or several process steps is oxygen.
6. A process according to any of the above claims, charac¬ terized in that at least one enzyme treatment step is followed in the process by an alkali treatment in which an oxidizing chemical, such as oxygen or peroxide,, is used in addition to the alkali.
7. A process according to Claims 4-6, characterized in that the first step of the process is an enzyme treatment and the subsequent steps are oxidation with oxygen, a second enzyme treatment, an alkali treatment in which oxygen or peroxide is used in addition to alkali, a third enzyme treatment, oxidation with oxygen or chlorine dioxide, an alkali treatment, and oxi¬ dation with oxygen or chlorine dioxide, the steps following one another in the said sequence.
8. A process according to any of the above claims, charac¬ terized in that the enzyme used is hemicellulase, cellulase, pectinase, esterase, ligninase, and/or phenol oxidase.
9. A process according to any of the above claims, charac¬ terized in that the process includes'at minimum two separate enzyme treatment steps, in which at minimum two different en¬ zymes are used.
10. A process according to any of the above claims, charac¬ terized in that the process is used for bleaching a pulp ob¬ tained from softwood, such as pine sulfate pulp.
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