Abstract: A method for batch pulp digestion with hydroxide-bearing cooking liquors in combination with continuous alkaline oxygen delignification is described. The brown stock washing plant and the connected oxygen stage are freed from oxygen-consuming black liquid by withdrawing black liquor from a pre-cook wherein cooking liquor is reacted with a surplus of hydroxide-consuming chips. Moreover, spent cooking liquor in the brown stock washing plant is displaced with spent liquor from the oxygen delignification stage (oxy-liquor) and/or alkalization spent liquor (bleaching spent liquor worth recovering because of its sodium content). A mixture of said liquors is prepared in a pressurized cooking liquor accumulator and charged to the digestion plant liquor circulation system.

Abstract: This invention relates to a process for multi-stage alkaline pulping of ligno-cellulosic raw materials and recovery of delignification spent liquors, i.e. black liquor from digestion with white liquor and oxy-liquor comprising bleach plant effluent extracted from alkaline oxygen delignification of brown stock.According to the invention, oxy-liquor and intermediate black liquor in the digester are passed through that part of the material column to which the cellulosic raw material, e.g. wood chips, enters. There, hydroxide deriving from two sources, white liquor and oxy-liquor, is exhausted prior to its discharge as terminal black liquor. White liquor is consequently injected to the level of the pre-digested material in the column. This injection is controlled by continuous measurement, e.g. by automated titration analysis, of the hydroxide concentration in the joint volume of oxy-liquor and white liquor in the main cooking liquor circulation system.