US3486619A - Method of removing impurities from a fiber suspension - Google Patents
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- the present invention refers to a method of liberating, at least substantially, from a suspension of fiber material such as a paper pulp suspension solid impurities difficult to separate such as elongate or flattened light Weight particles, especially particles of plastic material, so-called shives or similar particles often present in paper pulp suspensions.
- a suspension of fiber material such as a paper pulp suspension solid impurities difficult to separate such as elongate or flattened light Weight particles, especially particles of plastic material, so-called shives or similar particles often present in paper pulp suspensions.
- the pulp may be more or less completely free of the above-mentioned impurities, but economical factors, of course, limit how far the cleaning of the pulp through screening may be carried on.
- a pulp which has been screened with utmost care still contains a greater or smaller number of fiber bundles of dilferent size, the color of which may vary from yellow brown to nearly black.
- Fiber bundles occurring in the purified unbleached pulp tend to cause specks in paper manufactured therefrom and to contaminate often also bleached pulp, as these fibers bundles will not be completely bleached 'by normal bleaching operations.
- a method generally practiced in modern factories is to process the pulp further in hydrocyclone separators or purifiers to improve the purity thereof.
- a separator of conventional type with an entirely or partly conical separation chamber the suspension is tangentially fed to the wider end of the separation chamber and separated into two fractions, one light and one heavy.
- the light fraction which is centrally discharged from the wide end of the separation chamber, consists of the cleaned fiber suspension.
- a smaller part of the suspension mainly containing relatively easily separable impurities such as bark particles, short fiber bundles and other comparatively heavy particles, such as grit, is centrally discharged as heavy fraction at the narrow end of the separator.
- the method of the invention makes it possible in a simple and economic manner to liberate the suspension from the last-mentioned kind of impurities.
- the normal through-flow volume of a separator installation is determined by the nominal capacity of the components included in the installation, that is, preferably the nominal capacity of the cyclone separators at which the optimal separation result is obtained.
- the method of the invention resides in providing a cyclone separator having two outlets, one being a light fraction outlet and the other a heavy fraction outlet, feeding suspension containing good fibers and undesirable particles diflicult to remove into the separator while maintaining in the outlets thereof relative flow conditions which cause the suspension to be separated into a first fraction containing the bulk of shives and other undesirable lightweight particles which due to shape and-density are diflicult to separate and a minimum of the good or acceptable fibers and a second fraction containing the bulk of the good or acceptable fibers and a minimum of the shives and other undesirable particles, and discharging the first fraction through the light fraction outlet and the second fraction through the heavy fraction outlet.
- the relative flow conditions necessary to obtain the afore stated discharge of the fractions is obtained by providing an appropriate relation of the efiective areas of the outlets and/or an appropriate relative pressure relation in the outlets while maintaining a through-flow volume substantially normal for the separator.
- a required effective area relation may be obtained by making the effective area of the heavy fraction outlet the larger one, and the required pressure relation by providing conventional and suitably set throttling means, for instance, throttling valves, in one of the outlets preferably the light fraction outlet.
- Suitable throttling means are shown, for instance, in Patent 2,897,972.
- the method according to the invention also makes it possible substantially fully to utilizethe capacity of the separators.
- TRIAL A 1,000 grams of bone-dry sulphite pulp containing 1,000 shives were treated in accordance with the aforedefined method of the invention in a single cycle separator using a 0.5% pulp concentration in such a manner that 950 grams of the fiber flow were obtained as heavy fraction while the balance of 50 grams were obtained as light fraction. The number of shives in the two fractions was counted.
- TRIAL B A corresponding counter test was made in accordance with the the aforedefined conventional method. 50 grams of the fiber flow were taken out of a single separator as heavy fraction while the balance of 950 grams was taken out as light fraction. The number of shives in the two fractions was counted.
- the fiber loss can be reduced to the extent required in practice without decreasing to a corresponding extent the shive separation capability, as will appear from the following.
- FIGS. 1 to 4 show diagrammatically cyclone separator installations in which several separators are interconnected or piped for carrying out the method according to the invention
- FIG. 5 is a vdiagram showing curves indicative of the extent of the shive separation obtained with the installations according to FIGS. 1 to 4, and also the shive concentration obtained by a single stage operation.
- FIG. 1 shows the use of three cyclone separators 5, 6 and 7 serially connected so that the light fraction from the cyclone 5 becomes the supply stock for the cyclone 6 and the light fraction from the cyclone 6 becomes the supply stock for the cyclone 7, with the heavy .4 fractions (containing a preponderance of accepted fibers) being connected to a common discharge pipe D.
- the effluent obtained through pipe D may and often does contain in addition to the accepted fibers usual impurities such as sand, that is impurities which have higher specific weight than the accepted fibers and the shives. Such heavy impurities can be readily removed by a subsequent conventional separator operation.
- the rejected light fraction (containing the bulk of the shives and a minimum of acceptable fibers) is discharged from the cyclone 7 as at E.
- FIG. 2 shows a more efiicient arrangement using three cyclone separators 8, 9 and 10 connected in a recirculating system in which the light fraction from the cyclone 8 becomes the supply stock for the cyclone 9, and the light fraction from the cyclone 9 becomes the supply stock for the cyclone 10.
- the heavy fraction from the cyclone 10 (containing a preponderance of accepted fibers) is recirculated into the supply stock for the cyclone 9
- the heavy fraction from the cyclone 9 (containing a preponderance of accepted fibers) is recirculated into the supply (uncleaned) stock for the cyclone 8
- the heavy fraction from the cyclone 8 (containing a preponderance of accepted fibers) is discharged therefrom through the pipe D.
- the rejected light fraction (containing the bulk of the shives and a minimum of acceptable fibers) is disharged from the cyclone 10 as at E.
- FIG. 3 shows a still more efficient system also using three cyclone separators 11, 12 and 13 in which the light fraction from the cyclone 11 becomes the supply stock for the cyclone 13 and the heavy fraction from the cyclone 11 (containing a preponderance of accepted fibers) becomes the supply stock for the cyclone 12.
- the light fraction from the cyclone 12, and the heavy fraction from the cyclone 13 (containing a preponderance of accepted fibers) are recirculated into the supply (uncleaned) stock for the cyclone 11.
- the heavy fraction from the cyclone 12 (containing a preponderance of accepted fibers) is discharged through the pipe D and the light fraction from the cyclone 13 (containing the bulk of the shives and a minimum of acceptable fibers) is discharged therefrom as at E.
- FIG. 4 shows another highly eflicient arrangement using five cyclone separators, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 connected in a combined serial and recirculating system in which the light fraction from the cyclone 14 becomes the supply stock for the cyclone 15 and the light fraction from the cyclone 15 becomes the supply stock for the cyclone 16.
- the heavy fraction from the cyclone 16 is recirculated into the supply stock for the cyclone 15 and the heavy fraction from the cyclone 15 is recirculated into the supply (uncleaned) stock for the cyclone 14.
- the heavy fraction from the cyclone 14 becomes the supply stock for the cyclone 17, the heavy fraction from which becomes the supply stock for the cyclone 18 and its heavy fraction (containing a preponderance of accepted fibers) is discharged as at D.
- the light fractions from the cyclones 17 and 18 are recirculated with the heavy fraction from the cyclone 15 into the supply (uncleaned) stock for the cyclone 14.
- the light fraction from the cyclone 16 (containing the bulk of the shives and a minimum of acceptable fibers) is discharged therefrom as at B.
- the resultant heavy fraction (containing a preponderance of accepted fibers) is further processed to remove the easily separable heavy particles such as sand and grit.
- the graphs I to IV in FIG. 5 each refer to a respective one of the combinations according to FIGS. 1 to 4, and indicate by the use of symbols a, b, p and r, the functional relation between a and p and also between b and r. More specifically, there is indicated by:
- the shive separation ratio per cyclone separator that is, the relation between the number of discharged shives in the respective separator outlet for the light fraction and the number of shives supplied through the respective separator inlet;
- r the fiber separation ratio per cyclone separator, that is, the relation between the quantity of discharged good fiber in the respective separator outlet for the light fraction and the quantiy of supplied good fiber in the respective separator inlet.
- the invention is not limited to the treatment of paper pulp.
- the in vention permits in a simple and economical manner liberation of elongate shives and similar solid impurities from suspensions of chemical, semi-chemical or mechanical pulp by means of cyclone separators in such a Way that the shives and other impurities are concentrated in a light fraction containing only a small portion of the useful total fiber content.
- the fiber containing flow which in accordance with the present invention has been obtained as light fraction enriched with elongate shives may be subsequently screened or defibrated in a known manner.
- a cyclone separator having two outlets, one being a light fraction outlet and the other a heavy traction outlet, for separating said suspension into a first fraction containing a preponderance of shives and other undesirable lightweight particles and a minimum of acceptable fibers and a second fraction containing a preponderance of acceptable fibers and a minimum of shives and other undesirable lightweight particles;
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US3869559A (en) * | 1970-04-13 | 1975-03-04 | Thomas P Clark | Process for separation and cleaning of edible vegetable products |
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