How to make pulp from waste paper? The main step of the waste paper pulping process is purification, remove the printing ink, padding, coating, chemicals, fine fibers and other impurities from waste paper. Generally, the waste paper pulp production process includes pulping, screening, deslagging, flotation, washing, dispersion, bleaching and etc. According to different pulp processing, different paper pulping machinery are required in the paper pulp plants.
By the features and waste paper pulp uses, the waste paper pulping process can be divided into two types, deinking pulp making process and non-deinking pulp making process.
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Waste paper repulping is the core process of the pulping process, including deflaking and defibering. Deflaking dissociates interlaced fibers into single fiber and keeps the virgin state and strength of fibers. Defibering is the continuous process of deflaking, it is used to dissociate the fiber without any damage of fibers, and decrease the fiber strength.
Deflacking of waste paper is affected by a variety of factors, including temperature, time, concentration, waste paper classification, and etc.
The common paper pulper for waste paper pulping mainly includes hydrapulper and cylindrical paper pulper. The hydrapulper is widely applied in the waste paper pulping process home and aboard. There is vertical and horizontal type according to the structure of paper pulper, continuous type, and batching type according to operation method, LC type, and HC type according to pulp concentration.
Compared to LC waste paper repulping, HC type repulping has a lot of advantages as follows:
comparison of various types of paper pulper
Waste paper type | Pulp consistency(%) | Unit energy consumption | Retention time(min) | Relief hole diameter(mm) | |
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LC Continuous type | OCC | 3-4.5 | 30-45 | 5-8 | 18 |
LC Batching type | 5-8 | 30-45 | 10-20 | 3-16 | |
HC Continuous type | Old newspaper | 15-20 | 12-25 | 15-20 | 4-10 |
HC Batching type | 12-18 | 20-25 | 5-10 | 10-20 |
Waste paper pulp screening and cleaning are used to treat the coarse material of the front end of the line. To separate the large-size impurities from the coarse pulp, the waste paper pulp should be diluted into low concentration. Common equipment includes pressure screens, pressure knotter, and etc.
Floatation deinking is mainly applied to deinked pulp production. Due to most of the printing ink is oil-based materials, Ink particles have hydrophobic property. Use surfactants to collect ink particles and uplift them above pulp. The flotation tank is the core equipment of waste paper pulp deinking.
Pulp washing process uses water or diluent to dissolve a nonfibrous and soluble substance in the pulp cooking process, meanwhile, separate them from fibers, and finally obtain the clean pulp. Generally, the pulp washing process is also the process of waste liquor extraction. Common washing equipment includes vacuum drum washer, twin roll press, single screw press, disc filter, etc.
Concentration processes increase the pulp concentration and make the pulp easy to stock, stabilize the pulp concentration to meet the requirement of the next processing. It also saves energy consumption in pulp transportation. According to the concentration and washing principle, the washing and concentration equipment can be divided into LC type, HC type, medium consistency type, and displacement washing type. Gravity disc thickener is very common in the pulp concentration procedure.