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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7396434 | Catalytic reactor process for the production of commercial grade pulp, native lignin and unicellular protein A continuous and batch system to produce cellulose, native lignin and unicellular protein from any form of vegetation in a closed process. The biomass is mixed in the impregnate solution of nitric acid and/or ammonium hydroxide and water. After a period of time at r... | 07/08/2008 |
| 6923888 | Process for recovering organic acids from bleaching liquors The invention relates to a process for treating bleaching liquors from pulping processes based on organic acids. The process is characterized in that inorganic acid, such as nitric acid, phosphoric acid and/or sulphuric acid, is added into a bleaching liquor obtaine... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6599326 | Inhibition of pulp and paper yellowing using hydroxylamines and other coadditives Chemical pulps or papers, especially kraft pulps or papers, which may still contain traces of lignin, have enhanced resistance to yellowing when they contain an effective stabilizing amount of a N,N-dialkylhydroxylamine, an ester, amide or thio substitute... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6500303 | Inhibition of pulp and paper yellowing using nitroxides, hydroxylamines and other coadditives Pulps or papers, especially chemimechanical or thermomechanical pulps or papers, which still contain lignin, have enhanced resistance to yellowing when they contain an effective stabilizing amount of a hindered amine compound which preferably is a nitroxi... | 12/31/2002 |
| 6447644 | Inhibition of pulp and paper yellowing using nitroxides, hydroxylamines and other coadditives Pulps or papers, especially chemimechanical or thermomechanical pulps or papers, which still contain lignin, have enhanced resistance to yellowing when they contain an effective stabilizing amount of a hindered amine compound which preferably is a nitroxi... | 09/10/2002 |
| 6273994 | Method and device for measuring bleach requirement, bleachability, and effectivenss of hemicellulase enzyme treatment of pulp The present invention relates to a device and method for measuring the bleach requirement and bleachability of pulp in a pulp mill. The invention enables pulp mill operators to better control bleach plants. In one aspect, the invention comprises a system ... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6254724 | Inhibition of pulp and paper yellowing using nitroxides, hydroxylamines and other coadditives Pulps or papers, especially chemimechanical or thermomechanical pulps or papers, which still contain lignin, have enhanced resistance to yellowing when they contain an effective stabilizing amount of a hindered amine compound which preferably is a nitroxi... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6143884 | Manufacturing process of cellulose viscose with low viscosity A manufacturing process of cellulose solution with low viscosity includes the step of dissolving a cellulose in a mixture solvent which is produced by mixing an additional solvent mixture, N-methylol caprolactom, with a main solvent, N-methyl morpholine o... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6110323 | Methods of refining agricultural residues to absorbent cellulose, xylose, and plant nutrient liquor, and products produced by such methods A method of creating a number of separate product streams from an agricultural waste material, comprising: providing a starting material consisting of an agricultural waste material; hydrolyzing the starting material with an acid solution at atmospheric p... | 08/29/2000 |
| 5914003 | Cellulose oxidation Cellulose is effectively oxidized with nitrogen dioxide in a hydrofluoroether solvent.... | 06/22/1999 |
| 5882427 | Method of reconditioning used wood Method of separating the surface layer from the core of a piece of wood is escribed. In it, the surface of the piece of wood is initially pre-damaged or roughened and the piece of wood thus treated is thereafter soaked in water or an aqueous solution until... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5656224 | Process for the production of a cellulose suspension The invention is concerned with a process for the production of a suspension of cellulose in a liquid, aqueous tertiary amine-oxide, wherein shredded cellulose is mixed with the liquid, aqueous tertiary amine-oxide, said process comprising: (A) contacting... | 08/12/1997 |
| 5628830 | Enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass material A method of producing sugars and converting the sugars to ethanol in which particulate biomass resulting from hydrolysis of the hemicellulosic content of the biomass is subjected to enzymatic hydrolysis of the cellulosic content to glucose and fermentatio... | 05/13/1997 |
| 5603883 | Process of and apparatus for making celluose products A plant for the production of cellulose films and fibers includes at least one pulping device for producing a first suspension of pulp in an aqueous amine-oxide solution and a first thin-film treatment apparatus for receiving the first pulp suspension and... | 02/18/1997 |
| 5601767 | Process for the production of a cellulose moulded body A process for the production of a cellulose moulded body, particularly cellulose fibres, characterized by the combination of the measures of feeding a cellulose-containing material into an aqueous solution of a tertiary amine-oxide in order to suspend said cel... | 02/11/1997 |
| 5536325 | Method of treating biomass material Two stage hydrolysis of lignocellulosic material, conditions during the first stage being such as to hydrolyze or depolymerize the hemicellulosic component without substantial degradation of resulting monosaccharides, conditions during the second stage be... | 07/16/1996 |
| 5458737 | Quaternary compounds as brightness enhancers A process is disclosed for maximizing the brightness of wood pulps which have been treated with anionic bleaching agents wherein the brightness is enhanced by the use of selected quaternary ammonium compounds.... | 10/17/1995 |
| 5456799 | Method for controlling activation of lignocellulosic material in the presence of a nitrate containing liquid The method solves the problem of delignifying technical cellulose pulp in a selective manner which will result in very low residual contents of lignin in the pulp and a correspondingly high quantity of lignin dissolved in spent liquors, which are recovere... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5413631 | Formation of a cellulose-based premix A method is disclosed of forming a premix which is suitable for conversion into a cellulosic dope which can be used to produce cellulosic products. The method involves introducing into a mixing chamber predetermined quantities of shredded cellulosic mater... | 05/09/1995 |
| 5385641 | Delignification of cellulosic raw materials using acetic acid, nitric acid and ozone In a three-stage process for the delignification of cellulose-containing raw materials, pulping is initially performed with a solution of concentrated aqueous acetic acid at an elevated temperature and under an elevated pressure. The resultant acetic acid... | 01/31/1995 |
| 5366558 | Method of treating biomass material Two stage hydrolysis of lignocellulosic material, conditions during the first stage being such as to hydrolyze or depolymerize the hemicellulosic component without substantial degradation of resulting monosaccharides, conditions during the second stage be... | 11/22/1994 |
| 5364503 | Nitric oxide treatment for ozone bleaching A method of bleaching a chemical pulp by adjusting the pH of the pulp to 1.5-3.5, chelating the pulp and then treating the pulp in an N stage with nitric oxide (NO) in the amount of at least 1.5% by weight of the oven dried pulp at a consistency of betwee... | 11/15/1994 |
| 5314583 | Process for the comminution of materials and plant for carrying out the process A process for the comminution, in particular defibrillation, and reaction of fibrous materials having a high dry solids content with the addition of a circulating medium, preferably a carrier gas and/or reaction agent, as well as optionally of chemicals. ... | 05/24/1994 |
| 5221357 | Method of treating biomass material Two stage hydrolysis of lignocellulosic material, conditions during the first stage being such as to hydrolyze or depolymerize the hemicellulosic component without substantial degradation of resulting monosaccharides, conditions during the second stage be... | 06/22/1993 |
| 5041192 | Supercritical delignification of wood An improved wood pulping process for the delignification of wood in a solvent wherein the solvent is a supercritical fluid under supercritical conditons and contains a delignification agent such as sodium hydroxide, sodium sulfide and/or sodium bisulfate.... | 08/20/1991 |
| 5000822 | Process for the preparation of imitation leather from natural hemp and the product thereof An imitation leather product and a process for the preparation of the imitation leather product from natural hemp which comprises the steps of (a) firstly digesting natural hemp fiber with weak alkali solution, (b) secondly digesting with ammonia gas, (c)... | 03/19/1991 |
| 4897156 | Process for activating cellulose pulp with NO and/or NO2 and oxygen in the presence of nitric acid and then delignifying bleaching the activated cellulose pulp A process is provided for activating cellulose pulp using NO and/or NO2 plus oxygen gas in the presence of nitric acid, added in an amount within the range from about 0.1 to about 1.0 gmole per kg of water accompanying the cellulose pulp at a t... | 01/30/1990 |
| 4853082 | Process for the activation and delignification of cellulose pulp A process is provided for the activation and delignification of cellulose pulp, which comprises: (1) subjecting chemical cellulose pulp to activation by reaction with nitrogen dioxide in the presence of water at a temperature within the range from about 2... | 08/01/1989 |
| 4750973 | Process for reducing carbohydrate losses in the sulfate pulping of wood by pretreating the wood with oxygen and nitrogen oxides A process is provided for reducing carbohydrate losses in the sulphate pulping of wood using sodium hydroxide and sodium sulfide, by pretreating the wood in the presence of water with oxygen gas and nitrogen oxide such as NO2 and/or NO and/or p... | 06/14/1988 |
| 4725335 | Process for producing nitrogen oxides from aqueous waste cellulose pulp liquor containing nitrogen compounds A process is provided for producing nitrogen oxides from aqueous waste cellulose pulp liquors containing nitrogen compounds including oxygen linked to nitrogen in the molecule, which includes initiating an autocatalytic reaction generating nitrogen oxide ... | 02/16/1988 |
| 4652341 | Accelerated pulping process A process of treating fibrous ligno-cellulose material to form defibered chemical cellulose pulp suitable, for example, for the manufacture of paper and paperboard and dissolving pulp and to treat defibered ligno-cellulose material to produce basic animal... | 03/24/1987 |
| 4602982 | Process for delignifying bleaching lignin-containing cellulose pulp by activating the pulp with NO2 and O2 gas in the presence of water, sodium nitrate and nitric acid A process is provided for delignifying bleaching lignin-containing cellulose pulp which comprises: (1) activating cellulose pulp by reacting the pulp at a pulp consistency within the range from about 20% to about 60% and at a temperature within the range ... | 07/29/1986 |
| 4454005 | Method of increasing interfiber bonding among fibers of lignocellulosic material, and resultant product Defiberized lignocellulosic material, such as wood, is treated with a liquid carrier containing an oxidizing agent (a per compound, a chlorate or a nitrate), and the wet mat thereof is subjected to pressure, and to heat for a sufficient period of time to ... | 06/12/1984 |
| 4445969 | Process for the delignifying bleaching of cellulose pulp by activating the pulp with NO2 and oxygen A process for delignifying bleaching cellulose pulp in three stages, an activating stage, and first and second alkaline stages, NO and/or NO2 and O2, and optionally HNO3, being supplied to the water-containing pulp in the ... | 05/01/1984 |
| 4439271 | Process for the oxygen bleaching of cellulose pulp A two-stage oxygen bleaching of chemical cellulose pulp is provided, in which an alkaline oxygen bleaching stage is preceded by a nitrogen dioxide activating stage in which oxygen is added to the activating stage in an amount such that nitrogen monoxide f... | 03/27/1984 |
| 4406735 | Process for alkaline oxygen gas bleaching of cellulose pulp A process is provided for the bleaching delignification of cellulose pulp with oxygen gas in the presence of alkali, wherein the pulp is first activated with nitrogen dioxide and then washed, preferably with water. The invention is characterized in that t... | 09/27/1983 |
| 4165253 | Process for producing pulp The process for producing pulp according to the present invention consists in the subsequent steps of an aqueous treatment of a vegetable stock at a temperature within the range of from 110° to 170° C. under a pressure of from 2 to 7 atm.g. for a period... | 08/21/1979 |
| 4100341 | Uronic oxidation of cellulose Uronic oxidation of cellulose is achieved by reacting cellulose with aqueous nitric acid containing nitrogen dioxide.... | 07/11/1978 |
| 4087318 | Oxygen-alkali delignification of lignocellulosic material in the presence of a manganese compound A process is provided for the delignification of lignocellulosic material wherein the lignocellulosic material, prior to the delignification, is treated with water or an aqueous solution to remove compounds which catalyze the degradation of carbohydrates ... | 05/02/1978 |
| 4076579 | Pulping of lignocellulosic material by sequential treatment thereof with nitric oxide and oxygen Particulate lignocellulosic material, having a moisture content of about 10-80 weight percent, is treated at temperatures below about 50° C. with 2 to 8 weight percent nitric oxide based on the weight of dry lignocellulosic material. Thereafter, said nit... | 02/28/1978 |
