We were studied on the role of the oxidation reaction and the substitution reaction in chlorine treatments in CEHED pulp bleaching sequence by varying intentionally the proportion of the oxidation reaction and the substitution reaction under a giving chlorine consumption. Increasing the proportion of the oxidation in a giving chlorine consumption, pulp viscosity after CE treatments decreased.
However, PN after CE treatments also decreased, Cl
2 requirement for giving a fixed PN by CE treatments could be reduced without a damage in the pulp properties.
Accordingly, it was proved that the oxidation reaction, which was previously considered as an undesirable reaction, made an important role to the delignification, and rather a requisite reaction.
Because this advantage of the oxidation reaction were kept in all stages of this bleaching sequence, costs of bleaching were reduced by increasing the proportion of the oxidation reaction. Furthermore, properties and the treatability of bleaching effluents were nearly equal to that in the high proportion of the substitution reaction.
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