MIXER AND PROCESS

摘要

P 60 4661 MIXER AND PROCESS Process and apparatus for mixing a wood pulp slurry with a chemical at the consistency at which the slurry exits a washer or the subsequent steam mixer, ? to 15%. The chemicals would include noncondensable or unsaturated gases such as oxygen, ozone, air, chlorine, chlorine dioxide, sulfur dioxide, ammonia, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, hydrogen chloride, nitric oxide or nitrogen peroxide. Highly superheated steam can also be mixed with the pulp. In the process, the pulp slurry would pass through a mixing zone having a swept area in the range of 10,000 to 1,000,000 square meters per metric ton of oven-dry pulp. The preferred range is 25,000 to 150,000 square meters per metric ton of oven-dry pulp and the optimum is considered to be around 65,400 square meters per metric ton of oven-dry pulp. This area is determined by the formula where A = area swept per metric ton, m2/t r1 = outer radius of the rotor (70), m r2 = inner radius of the rotor (70), m R = revolutions per minute of the rotor (70) N = number of rotors (70) t - metric tons (Oven Dry Basis) of pulp passing through the mixer per day. The pulp slurry passes through an annular mixing zone. Specific designs of the various elements of the mixer are disclosed.