1.Comparison of Sulphate with Sulphite process :
We took shavings as thin as approximately 200μ from a kind of spruce (Ezomatsu in Hokkaido Area) and cooked them both by sulphite and sulphate process.The ratio of dissolution of such individual constituents of wood as lignin, pentosan, etc were compared in the whole range of yield while cooking.
Taking the sulphite process first, lignin and pentosan are, at the higher range of yield, removed selectively from the wood-chips without marked degradation of cellulose.The drastic acid hydrolysis of cellulose occurs after the yield of residue reaches nearly 50 per cent.
By the sulphate cooking, on the contrary, the considerable degradation and dissolution of cellulose takes place in the early stage of cooking.The removal of lignin and pentosan, rather than cellulose, are delayed.The topochemical nature of cooking reaction appears more distinctively in the sulphite cooking than sulphate cooking.
The superior mechanical properties of sulfate pulp (to sulphite pulp of the same D.P.) are attributable to the fact that sulphite fibres, which are injured by the acid hydrolysis, have too many cracks or other weak points perpendicular to the axis of fibre, whereas sulphate fiberes degraded mainly by alkaline oxidation, have no weak point even in the case of over-cooking.
Other differences between sulphite and sulphate process are also explained in this report.
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