Medium consistency ozone brightening of high consistency ozone bleached pulp.

摘要

A process for delignifying and bleaching a lignocellulosic material (2) without the use of elemental chlorine or chlorine-containing compounds by forming (4) a pulp, oxygen delignifying (40) the pulp and thereafter further delignifying the oxygen delignified pulp by lifting, displacing and tossing the pulp in a radial direction while advancing it in an axial direction in a plug fow-like manner with an effective amount of ozone (88) for a sufficient time to obtain a substantially delignified pulp having a GE brightness of at least about 35 %. The substantially delignified pulp may then be brightened to a final product by treating the pulp with a brightening stage peroxide compound, followed by subsequently treating the pulp at low to medium consistency with ozone.