Larch and red-pine chips, which were composed of sap-and heart wood by equal weight, were cooked in the liquor of 32% SO
2 and 24% MgSO
4 the same cocentration as in the chemical pulping of spruce and it has been examined whether the quality of the pulps is good or not.
The relationship between cooking temperature and time to obtain chemicalpulp from larch or red-pine were 6, 4, and 3 hrs. at the temperatures of 135° to 140°, 150°, and 160°C, respectively.
All these pulps contained the considerable amount of screenings of 10 to 20% by weight based on an ovendry wood, but they were easily defiberated with Disc-refiner.
Screened yield and paper strength of the pulps obtained from larch or red-pine at 135° to 140°C were comparable or superior to those of Mg-base sulfite pulps.
When cookings of these species were carried out with the same temperature-time schedule as in the sulfite, so-called easy-bleaching type, screening yields of pulps became higher and also reject stocks were significantly reduced.
The pulps showed excellent paper strength comparable to KP, and furthermore the yield of fiber stock was superior to that of KP.
The recovery of MgSO
4 as a cooking chemical from waste liquors of softwoods was investigated.
The recovery was not dependent on the type of waste liquor but on the degree of carbonization of waste liquors by evaporation.
The chemicals was completely separated from highly carbonized substance by washing with water.
However, in low degree of carbonization, the two-steps washing with SO
2 solution and water was required for the full separation of the chemical.
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