US2457856A - Chemical retting process of producing bast fibers - Google Patents
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- Patented Jan. 4, 1949 CHEMICAL RETTING PROCESS OF PRODUCING nssr means Jacob Johan Zeehulsen, Scheveningen, Netherlands; vested in the Attorney General of the United States No Drawing. Application March 28, 1940, Serial 2 Claims.
- the invention relates to the treatment of fibrous materials, particularly to the production of bast fibres, such as flax, hemp, jute and the like.
- the function of the bufier materials most likely resides in that they combine with the acids produced by the oxidation, so that there will no considerable increase of the acidity.
- the urea moreover forms a reserve of ammonia in the form of a compound having a non-alkaline reaction, which compound slowly decomposes; the ammonia produced thereby will replace the ammonia which is formed by the dissociation of the ammonium salts and evaporates from the solution.
- Suitable bufier materials are e. g. phosphates.
- the treatment generally is carried out at atmospheric pressure; it is also possible, however, to work in vacuo or under pressure, this latter particularly if it should be desired to carry out the treatment at temperatures above C.
- a bath containing hydrogen peroxide, urea and a bufier substance immerse the material to be treated in the same and slowly raise the temperatureup to the range oi temperatures required for the breaking up process.
- the period before this temperature is attained mainly serves for impregnating the fibrous material with the solution.
- the material treated according to the invention will contain the xyloid constituents in such a form as to be easily removed by mechanical means. According to the intensity of the chemical treatment either white or light yellow, strong, glossy fibres will be obtained.
- an after-treatment for the removal of the remaining coloring substances may be efiected by processes known for this purpose, e. g. bleaching by the action of the light or by treatment with alcohols or ketones, such as acetone.
- waste bath which canot be regenerated without a great deal of trouble
- the waste bath which canot be regenerated without a great deal of trouble
- the cost of the breaking up treatment is greatly reduced thereby and in many cases the, process will only be economically possible when the used chemicals are utilized in this way.
- the broken up fibrous material is now rinsed with hot water to which a little acid is added.
- a reducing acid such as hydrogen sulphide is used for this purpose.
- the hydrogen peroxide may be added to the bath as such; it may also be electrolytically formed in the bath, in which case the urea will stabilize the hydrogen peroxide thus formed.
- the urea if desired, may be formed from ammonia and carbon dioxide, wherebya mixture of urea and ammonium carbonate is produced.
- the invention is of importance in the first place in the treatment of bast fibres, such as fiax, hemp, jute, ramie and the like.
- bast fibres such as fiax, hemp, jute, ramie and the like.
- the process has also particular advantages for the manufacture of leaf fibres which up to the present have been produced by a kind of a retting process such as sisal, New Zealand hemp and Mauritius-hemp.
- a chemical retting process of producing bast fibres from vegetable materials which comprises the treatment of said fibres from one to one and one-half hours by immersing said materials in a bath containing about 0.5% oi! hydrogen peroxide, 0.5% of ammonium phosphate, and 1% of urea. at a temperature 01' about 0., raising the temperature 0! said bath and materials to C. to thereby break up said materials, and subsequently removing the xyloid constituents from the material treated by mechanical means.
- a chemical rotting process of producing bast fibres from vegetable materials which comprises the treatment 01 said fibres from one to one and one-half hours by immersing said materials in a bath containing about 0.5% of hydrogen peroxide, 0.5% of ammonium phosphate, 0.5% to 1% of ammonium carbonate, and 1% of urea at a tem-- perature of about 50 0., raising the temperature of said bath and materials to 80-100 C. to thereby break up said materials, and subsequently removing the xyloid constituents from the material treated by mechanical means.
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Patented Jan. 4, 1949 CHEMICAL RETTING PROCESS OF PRODUCING nssr means Jacob Johan Zeehulsen, Scheveningen, Netherlands; vested in the Attorney General of the United States No Drawing. Application March 28, 1940, Serial 2 Claims.
The invention relates to the treatment of fibrous materials, particularly to the production of bast fibres, such as flax, hemp, jute and the like.
It is known that the breaking up of such vegetable materials may be promoted by a treatment with chemical substances of diflerent kinds, e. g. acids or alkalis or alkaline salts such as phosphates, which substances are also used in the chemical retting of flax. It has also been proposed to carry out the breaking up process by applying hydrogen peroxide. By means of this treatment with chemicals the xyloid constituents are attacked in such a way as to be more easily removed in the subsequent mechanical treatment.
According to the invention it is possible to obtain a very good breaking up of the above mentioned raw materials by treating the same in a bath containing hydrogen peroxide together with urea and a buffer substance. It has been found that with the aid of a bath composed in this manner the xyloid constituents may be easily detached from the fibres so that they may be completely removed by a, simple mechanical treatment.
If hydrogen peroxide alone is applied, the xyloid constituents will be attacked by the same, but since hydrogen peroxide will decompose very rapidly the results are not satisfactory. The addition of urea, however, exerts a stabilizing infiuence on the hydrogen peroxide, at least it has been found that the peroxide will decompose much less rapidly while the action on the substances to be removed is far stronger.
The function of the bufier materials most likely resides in that they combine with the acids produced by the oxidation, so that there will no considerable increase of the acidity.
The urea moreover forms a reserve of ammonia in the form of a compound having a non-alkaline reaction, which compound slowly decomposes; the ammonia produced thereby will replace the ammonia which is formed by the dissociation of the ammonium salts and evaporates from the solution.
The above explanation of the mechanism of the breaking up process is, however, only to be considered as a hypothesis and it is by nomeans excluded that the effect produced by the combination of substances used according to the present invention is to be ascribed to entirely different causes.
Suitable bufier materials are e. g. phosphates.
It is advantageous to employ ammonium plies-- In the Netherlands March 22,
. raw material, the chemicals used and the concentration and temperature of the bath. As a rule a treatment of one and a half hours will be sufllcient for obtaining the desired results. If a starting material requires a vigorous treatment, one may either prolong the treatment or raise the concentration and/or the temperature of the bath.
The treatment generally is carried out at atmospheric pressure; it is also possible, however, to work in vacuo or under pressure, this latter particularly if it should be desired to carry out the treatment at temperatures above C.
In order to carry out the process according to the invention one may prepare a bath containing hydrogen peroxide, urea and a bufier substance, immerse the material to be treated in the same and slowly raise the temperatureup to the range oi temperatures required for the breaking up process. The period before this temperature is attained mainly serves for impregnating the fibrous material with the solution.
It is also possible, however, to impregnate the raw material with one of the above mentioned substances and then place it into a bath containing the other substances;
The material treated according to the invention will contain the xyloid constituents in such a form as to be easily removed by mechanical means. According to the intensity of the chemical treatment either white or light yellow, strong, glossy fibres will be obtained.
In some cases, e. g. when the material still has a greenish tint, it will be advisable to apply an after-treatment for the removal of the remaining coloring substances. This may be efiected by processes known for this purpose, e. g. bleaching by the action of the light or by treatment with alcohols or ketones, such as acetone.
The process described above has the great advantage, particularly if ammonium phosphate together with urea, is used as the buffer substance,
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that the waste bath, which canot be regenerated without a great deal of trouble, may be employed at once as a fertilizer or for biological purposes. The cost of the breaking up treatment is greatly reduced thereby and in many cases the, process will only be economically possible when the used chemicals are utilized in this way.
The invention will be explained with the aid of the following example without, however, limiting the scope of the invention. Thereby 100 kgs. of flax are immersed in 1600 liters of a bath which contains 0.5% of hydrogen peroxide, 0.5% of ammonium phosphate, 1% of urea and if desired 0.5-1% of ammonium carbonate, calculated on the liquid. In the beginning the temperature of the bath is about 50 C. and during the treatment it is raised to 80100 C. During the first part of the treatment principally the material will be bleached while the rotting process substantially occurs after raising the temperature. The duration of the treatment is from one to one and a half hours.
The broken up fibrous material is now rinsed with hot water to which a little acid is added. Preferably a reducing acid such as hydrogen sulphide is used for this purpose.
After this treatment the xyloid constituents will have become entirely detached from the fibres, so that they may easily be removed by further mechanical treatment of the flax.
The hydrogen peroxide may be added to the bath as such; it may also be electrolytically formed in the bath, in which case the urea will stabilize the hydrogen peroxide thus formed. The urea, if desired, may be formed from ammonia and carbon dioxide, wherebya mixture of urea and ammonium carbonate is produced.
The invention is of importance in the first place in the treatment of bast fibres, such as fiax, hemp, jute, ramie and the like. The process, however, has also particular advantages for the manufacture of leaf fibres which up to the present have been produced by a kind of a retting process such as sisal, New Zealand hemp and Mauritius-hemp.
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1. A chemical retting process of producing bast fibres from vegetable materials which comprises the treatment of said fibres from one to one and one-half hours by immersing said materials in a bath containing about 0.5% oi! hydrogen peroxide, 0.5% of ammonium phosphate, and 1% of urea. at a temperature 01' about 0., raising the temperature 0! said bath and materials to C. to thereby break up said materials, and subsequently removing the xyloid constituents from the material treated by mechanical means.
2. A chemical rotting process of producing bast fibres from vegetable materials which comprises the treatment 01 said fibres from one to one and one-half hours by immersing said materials in a bath containing about 0.5% of hydrogen peroxide, 0.5% of ammonium phosphate, 0.5% to 1% of ammonium carbonate, and 1% of urea at a tem-- perature of about 50 0., raising the temperature of said bath and materials to 80-100 C. to thereby break up said materials, and subsequently removing the xyloid constituents from the material treated by mechanical means.
JACOB JOHAN ZEEHU'ISEN.
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US4002526A (en) * | 1975-10-10 | 1977-01-11 | International Paper Company | Oxygen-alkali delignification of low consistency wood pulp |
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US1842024A (en) * | 1929-05-17 | 1932-01-19 | Rohm & Haas | Process for retting fibers |
US1941793A (en) * | 1931-08-21 | 1934-01-02 | Fibres Textiles | Retting process of textile materials |
US2096400A (en) * | 1935-08-29 | 1937-10-19 | Kritchevsky Wolf | Bleaching of wood |
US2220682A (en) * | 1939-05-10 | 1940-11-05 | Buffalo Electro Chem Co | Method of bleaching fibers of vegetable origin |
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FR470128A (en) * | 1913-09-25 | 1914-08-21 | Jacques Meister | Treatment of raw textile materials |
DE328597C (en) * | 1920-02-05 | 1920-10-29 | Gustav Strauss | Process for the production of woven fibers from straw and similar materials |
US1758920A (en) * | 1926-09-16 | 1930-05-20 | Chem Fab Weissenstein G M B H | Stabilized peroxide solution |
US1842024A (en) * | 1929-05-17 | 1932-01-19 | Rohm & Haas | Process for retting fibers |
US1941793A (en) * | 1931-08-21 | 1934-01-02 | Fibres Textiles | Retting process of textile materials |
US2096400A (en) * | 1935-08-29 | 1937-10-19 | Kritchevsky Wolf | Bleaching of wood |
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US3481828A (en) * | 1965-03-05 | 1969-12-02 | Hardman & Holden Ltd | Bleaching of wood pulp with thiourea dioxide and zinc sulfate |
US4002526A (en) * | 1975-10-10 | 1977-01-11 | International Paper Company | Oxygen-alkali delignification of low consistency wood pulp |
US4851082A (en) * | 1987-04-22 | 1989-07-25 | Director General Of Agency Of Industrial Science And Technology | Pulping process |
CN115262059A (en) * | 2022-07-21 | 2022-11-01 | 深圳市亿卓服饰科技有限公司 | Cotton fabric and preparation method thereof |
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