摘要 |
Improved environmentally acceptable process for retaining chelant-containing effluent within pulp bleach plants, particularly total chloride-free bleachi ng sequence plants using a chelating agent closed re-cycle process. The process involves treating a pulp liquor in an acidic or near neutral stage with an effective chelating a mount of a chelating agent to form a soluble, chelated metal species; removing the pulp to provide a chelated metal species-containing solution; treating this solution in an alk aline stage in the presence of sufficient Ca ions with an effective amount of an alkaline l iquor to effect displacement of metals from the chelated metal species and precipitation of the metals as solids in alkaline solution; removing the solids from the alkaline solution to provide a metal-free, chelating agent-containing solution; and recycling the metal-fre e solution to the pulp liquor.
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