摘要 |
An apparatus to pulp thin wood chips including: a chip screen receiving chips of comminuted cellulosic material, the screen assembly including a screening assembly which outputs thin chips; a chip bin and conveyor assembly receiving the thin chips output from the chip screen, the lower portion of the chip bin is flooded with white liquor; a continuous digester vessel having an chip inlet at an upper region of the vessel coupled to the chip bin and conveyor assembly, a cooking zone extending vertically from the upper region of the vessel to a wash zone which extends from the cooking zone to a bottom region of the vessel, and a pulp discharge outlet in the bottom region; a steam inlet at the upper region of the inlet, an upper region of the digester vessel at an elevated cooking temperature, and a screen assembly near the wash liquid inlet for the wash zone. |