Abstract: An acetylated softwood lignin fiber having a diameter of 5 to 100 microns.

Abstract: A method of making a carbon fiber from softwood alkaline black liquor lignin by acetylating the lignin to provide a meltable and drawable lignin.

Abstract: A method of making a carbon fiber from softwood alkaline black liquor lignin by acetylating the lignin to provide a meltable and drawable lignin.

Abstract: An acetylated softwood lignin fiber having a diameter of 5 to 100 microns.

Abstract: A method for producing a hydrolysate from lignocellulosic materials generally includes fiberizing the lignocellulosic materials, separating the lignocellulosic materials into at least a first portion and a second portion, wherein at least the first portion includes lignin, treating the first portion to deactivate at least a portion of the lignin in the first portion, re-combining the first and second portions after treating the first portion, and hydrolyzing the lignocellulosic materials with enzymes to produce a hydrolysate.

Abstract: A process and solution for delignifying and brightening lignocellulosic pulp. The solution comprises from about 0.1 to about 5% by weight, based on oven-dried pulp of a peroxide and about 0.5 to about 20 mole percent, based on the moles of peroxide, of a metal ion selected from the group consisting of tungsten, molybdenum, chromium, osmium and selenium. The preferred process of this invention comprises contacting a lignocellulosic pulp with about 0.5 to about 20 mole percent, based on moles of peroxide, of a metal ion selected from the group consisting of tungsten, molybdenum, chromium, osmium and selenium at a temperature below about 50.degree. C.; adjusting the pH of the resultant pulp slurry to between about 1 and about 7; adding 0.1 to about 5% by weight based on oven-dried pulp of peroxide and effecting pulp delignification and brightening at about 30.degree. C. to about 100.degree. C. until most of the peroxide has been consumed.

Abstract: A chlorine-free bleaching process for lignocellulosic pulp characterized by a series of bleaching stages comprising in sequence a peroxide bleaching stage, the peroxide being selected from the group consisting of alkaline hydrogen peroxide, acidic hydrogen peroxide, and peroxy acid and at least one ozone bleaching stage and in one embodiment the sequence including an initial oxygen bleaching stage before the peroxide bleaching stage. In continuous operation the effluent from each of these sequential stages provides the preferred wash for the preceding washing step and the diluent for the preceding bleaching stage, the final effluent being recyclable for effective closed cycle operation.

Abstract: A process for delignifying lignocellulosic pulps, which comprises the steps of (a) impregnating a lignocellulosic pulp slurry with a water-soluble manganous salt having a manganous ion concentration of from about 1% to about 10%, by weight of oven-dried pulp; (b) mixing the impregnated pulp slurry with an amount of alkali equal to the stoichiometric quantity of alkali required to precipitate the soluble manganous ion as insoluble manganous hydroxide; (c) aerating the pulp slurry with an oxygen-containing gas without further addition of alkali and in the absence of alkali for a period of time sufficient to oxidize substantially all of the manganous hydroxide to manganic hydroxide; (d) treating the pulp slurry with sufficient sulfuric acid to lower the slurry pH to at least about 3, thus releasing soluble manganic ions to oxidize the pulp lignins; (e) separating the effluent containing manganous ions from the pulp slurry with a non-alkaline wash; and then (f) extracting the oxidized lignins from the pulp slurry

Abstract: A process for the delignification of a lignocellulosic material, which comprises the steps of: (a) digesting the lignocellulosic material with an aqueous, alkaline pulping liquor containing from about 0.1% to about 10% based on the weight of oven-dried lignocellulosic material, of a cyclic amino compound selected from the group consisting of phenazine, dihydrophenazine, quinoxaline, and their alkyl, alkoxy, hydroxy, carboxy and amino derivatives at a temperature of from about 150.degree. C. to about 200.degree. C. for a period of from about 5 to about 480 minutes; and then (b) removing the aqueous pulping liquor from the lignocellulosic material with water or an aqueous wash liquor inert to the lignocellulosic material to obtain a delignified cellulosic material.

Abstract: A wood pulp slurry, at a consistency of 0.1% to 10% by weight and having a pH ranging from 1 to 7, is bleached with ozone in the presence of 0.1% to 1.0% by weight of a cationic surfactant.

Abstract: A three stage process for pulping lignocellulosic materials, preferably softwood chips comprising: as a first stage treating the lignocellulosic material with a cyanide ion-containing solution at a pH between 7 and 12 to form cyanohydrin groups; in a second stage digesting the thus treated lignocellulosic material with an alkali metal pulping solution containing hydroxyl ions; and as a third stage treating the thus digested lignocellulosic material with 1% to 12% by weight sodium hydroxide, as sodium oxide based on o.d. pulp from the alkaline pulping stage, in the presence of an excess of oxygen.