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Towards closed water systems in chemical pulp mills: Evaporation of acidic filtrate from ECF bleaching with high chloride content
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TAPPI Journal, Volume 25, issue 1, pp. 31-41
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In modern bioproducts mills utilizing elemental chlorine-free (ECF) bleaching, the bleaching process is the primary effluent source. The pulp bleaching typically generates 10 m3/a.d. metric ton of acidic filtrate. Despite extensive studies on recycling methods, the acidic filtrate is still typically directed to wastewater treatment plants due to the challenges created by its volume and chloride content. Recently, the volume of acidic filtrate has significantly decreased to 5 m3/a.d. metric ton, reducing the capacity required for the recycling process closer to a feasible level. In this study, we investigated recycling of acidic filtrate by evaporation from the D0 stage of a D0-Eop-D1 bleaching sequence. In the mill, hydrochloric acid (HCl) was used for pH control instead of sulfuric acid (H2SO4) due to better control of precipitation. This arrangement substantially changes the composition of the acidic filtrate, increasing the chloride (Cl-) and decreasing the sulfate (SO4 2-) ionic content. For the above reasons, it is necessary to study the effect of evaporation on the quality of the resulting condensate and concentrate. The results provide new information on how to close water loops in a modern bioproducts mill with higher Cl- content as one option. The results show that the evaporation of the high-chlorine D0 filtrate produces a pure condensate with methanol as the main component. Only small amounts of Cl- were observed in the condensate. The majority of chlorine (Cl) compounds remains as dissolved compounds in the evaporated concentrate when the dry solids content of the concentrate is ∼10%. The Cl compounds in the concentrate can be converted to sodium chloride (NaCl) by incineration. Application: This study provides new insights into the quality of fractions produced during the evaporation of acidic filtrate from ECF bleaching in a modern bioproducts mill, using HCl for pH adjustment instead of H2SO4. We evaluated the further processing and utilization possibilities of the condensate and concentrate based on our results, as well as assessed evaporation as a treatment method.
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Seppäläinen, H, Heine, L, Ala-Kaila, K & Dahl, O 2026, 'Towards closed water systems in chemical pulp mills: Evaporation of acidic filtrate from ECF bleaching with high chloride content', TAPPI Journal, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 31-41. https://doi.org/10.32964/TJ25.1.31