摘要 |
A process for the deinking of xerographically printed wastepaper to produce reclaimed stock having high brightness and low dirt count. The process centers upon contact between a wastepaper pulp and an aqueous medium of alkaline pH containing a deinking agent consisting of a mixture of one or more C5 to C20 alkanols with nonionic surfactant to form a suspension of the ink in the aqueous medium. The deinking agent suitable for practice of the invention necessarily contains for every 10 parts by weight between 3 and 5 parts of alkanol and between 5 and 7 parts of nonionic surfactant, and is present in the aqueous medium in an amount between about 0.2 and 2.0 percent by weight, calculated on the dry weight of the pulp.
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