Some experiments were carried out on the manufacture of pulp for paper by hydrotropic cooking, and the results are described. Sodium salts of toluensulfonic (A), salicylic (B), benzoic (C) and mesitylene-carboxylic (D) acids were employed as hydrotropic reagents. Wood meal of beech was cooked with the aqueous solutions of hydrotropic salts of various concentration at 170°C for 2 hours. The pulping effects with the C solution was also examined by adding sodiumhydroxide, sodiumsulfide, or sodiumsulfite as assistant reagents. Based on the results obtained in the above experiments, several kinds of hydrotropic pulp were prepared from wood chips, and their properties were compared with those of a bisulfite pulp. 1. The delignification effect was in the order of B>D>C>A in cooking with the solution of hydrotropic salts of the same concentration. It is noteworthy that the salt of B, having hydroxyl group but hydrophobic group, showed to be superior in delignification action to the other hydrotropic salts. The cooking liquor with A turned to acidic during the cooking process, and consequently the amount of hemicellulose removed was greater than that in the case of the solutions of the other hydrotropic salts. Accordingly, it is presumed that benzenecarboxylic acid salts are preferable to benzenesulfonic acid salts as the hydrotropic reagent in the manufacture of pulp for paper. 2. In cooking of wood chips with thickness less than 1.5 mm, it is possible to obtain a delignification effect approximated to the case of wood meal. 3. The quality of hydrotropic pulps is somewhat inferior, comparing with that of bisulfite pulp having the same lignin contents. 4. Use of sodiumhydroxide as assistant reagent in cooking with the C solution is rather unpractical. In the cooking of wood chip, however, when used 45% of sodium sulfide or sodiumsulfite as assistant reagent, hydrotropic pulp with good mechanical properties was obtained retaining larger amount of hemicellulose.
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