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ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 7, Pages 775-784Publisher
SELPER LTD, PUBLICATIONS DIV
DOI: 10.1080/09593330801987020
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chlorine bleaching; ECF-bleaching; hardwood; kinetics; softwood
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The effectiveness of the bottom ashes from biomass and coal-fired boilers in removing chemical oxygen demand (COD) and color loads in effluents of a kraft pulp bleachery plant is investigated. The effluents tested are those of the sulfuric acid treatment (A stage) of a hardwood kraft pulp, and of the first acidic (chlorine or chlorine dioxide) and second alkaline (extraction) stages in the chlorine and elemental chlorine-free (ECF) bleaching lines of hardwood and softwood kraft pulps. The coal-fired boiler's bottom ashes are unable to remove either COD or color load in the bleached kraft pulp effluents. However, the bottom ashes of the biomass boiler are effective in removing COD and color loads of the acidic and alkaline effluents irrespective of the bleaching process or wood species. In particular, these ashes increase the pH of all the effluents examined.
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