Abstract: A process is disclosed for deinking pulp which has been made from paper printed with flexographic ink. The process uses a surfactant component made from a fatty acid or a fatty acid blend and at least one alkoxylated diamine selected from Formula I: ##STR1## where X, Y, W and Z may be alike or different and are each independently selected from the group consisting of(i) --(CH.sub.2 --CH(CH.sub.3)--O).sub.a (CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2 --O).sub.b --;(ii) --(CH.sub.2 --CH.sub.2)--O).sub.c (CH.sub.2 --CH(CH.sub.3)--O).sub.d --; and(iii) random copolymers of ethylene oxide and propylene oxide,wherein a, b, c and d are each selected independently to be a number between 1 and 30 so as to give an HLB value between 5-15.

Abstract: Good deinking of waste paper can be obtained at high consistency by first pulping at high pH, then lowering the pH, adding alkaline cellulase and letting the cellulase act during continued pulping and/or maceration. The improved deinking results in higher whiteness and better cleanliness (fewer ink particles) in paper made from the treated pulp after separation of ink particles. This cellulase treatment results in better operation of certain equipment such as thickeners and in better drainage of the pulp during paper making.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method of deinking cellulosic materials comprising, shredding or chopping the cellulosic materials to create uniform paper shreds, immersing the paper shreds into a nonaqueous organic solvent while agitating the paper shreds, removing the organic solvent, bleaching the paper shreds to form a pulp, diluting said pulp to form a fiber suspension and submitting the suspension to high speed, high shear dispersion to form a pulp ready for papermaking.

Abstract: The invention relates to aqueous dispersions of alkaline earth metal soaps and/or alkaline earth metal resin soaps for deinking printed wastepaper in which the dispersions containA. alkaline earth metal salts of C.sub.6-22 carboxylic acids and/or resinic acids andB. C.sub.6.22 oxoalcohols alkoxylated with 2 to less than 6 mol C.sub.2-4 alkylene oxides and alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal alumimo silicates corresponding to general formula I0.7-1.5 cat.sub.2/n O.Al.sub.2 O.sub.3.0.8-6 SiO.sub.2in which cat represents alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal cations and n is the valency of the alkali metal and/or alkaline earth metal cations.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and product for treating waste paper material in which the material is pulped to form a slush-like fibrous stock, an ink dispersing agent is added to disperse ink particles from the stock, and the dispersed ink particles are removed from the stock. The ink dispersing agent comprises a mixture of phosphated and carbonated sodium salts, which achieves effective ink dispersal at ambient temperatures and under neutral pH conditions. The ink dispersing agent can also be effectively used as a one-shot product without the addition of any other chemicals to the stock. It also detackifies and disperses stickies from the stock and improves white water clarity.

Abstract: Waste cellulosic paper products, for example, old corrugated container are recycled employing oxygen delignification in the presence of an alkaline material to produce a recycled pulp of lower kappa number, while maintaining adequate strength in the pulp. The recycling process preferably employs an acid pretreatment in combination with the oxygen delignification, and exposure of the waste product to the alkaline material is preferably controlled so that at any point in the delignification the waste product is exposed to not more than 50%, by dry weight, of the alkaline material based on the weight of residual lignin in the waste paper product.

Abstract: A process for deinking wastepaper, which comprises: (a) forming an organoclay deinking agent in an aqueous system; (b) contacting ink from wastepaper in the aqueous system with an amount of the organoclay deinking agent effective to deink the wastepaper; and ( c ) recovering deinked paper pulp from the aqueous system.

Abstract: Color is removed from secondary pulps with non-chlorine based bleaching agents in treating sequences using oxygen with combinations of peroxide, ozone, and/or hydrosulfite at/controlled pH conditions. Acid treatment prior to bleaching steps improves color removal and protects fibers from damage at more severe bleaching conditions.

Abstract: Color is removed from secondary pulps with non-chlorine based bleaching agents in treating sequences using oxygen with combinations of peroxide, ozone, and/or hydrosulfite at/controlled pH conditions. Acid treatment prior to bleaching steps improves color removal and protects fibers from damage at more severe bleaching conditions.

Abstract: A method of obtaining an excellent recycled pulp from waste pressure-sensitive adhesive paper which has previously been discarded. This method being characterized in that the waste paper is defiberized, then a defiberized suspension thereof is diluted, the diluted suspension is coarse screened by a screen having a slit width of below 0.5 mm, the pulp suspension after coarse screening is dewatered so as to have a solid matter consistency of 15 to 40% by weight, the dewatered stuff is mechanically agitated, the difference between the temperature of the stuff before the agitation and the temperature thereof after the agitation being below 12.degree. C., the obtained stuff is being diluted again, the diluted suspension is fine screened by a screen having a slit width of below 0.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the flotation of fillers from deinked waste paper in the presence of surfactants containing sulfonate groups.

Abstract: Waste cellulosic paper products, for example, old corrugated containers are recycled employing oxygen delignification in the presence of an alkaline material to produce a recycled pulp of lower kappa number, while maintaining adequate strength in the pulp. The recycling process preferably employs an acid pretreatment in combination with the oxygen delignification, and exposure of the waste product to the alkaline material is preferably controlled so that at any point in the delignification the waste product is exposed to not more than 50%, by dry weight, of the alkaline material based on the weight of residual lignin in the waste paper product.

Abstract: A novel process for the treatment of wastepaper which provides for enhanced removal of both ink particles and non-ink contaminants is disclosed.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for deinking wastepaper in the presence of at least partly water-soluble polymers and/or copolymers containing amino and/or ammonium groups. Two examples of appropriate polymers/copolymers are neutralized polyethyleneimine and quaternized hydroxyethyl cellulose.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for reclaiming cellulosic fibers from a bale containing waste papers, in which the bale is positioned in a treatment enclosure, and the enclosure is placed under a vacuum. A treating fluid is drawn into the enclosure, which penetrates the bale interior spaces, and produces a preferential swelling of uncontaminated cellulosic fibers. After the treating fluid is withdrawn from the enclosure, a slurrying fluid is passed through the bale contents, to form a fiber-fluid suspension slurry.

Abstract: This invention related to a process for the deinking of office wastepaper stocks which includes: converting the wastepaper to a pulp, contacting the pulp with an aqueous medium of alkaline pH containing between about 0.05 and about 2 percent by weight, calculated on a dry weight basis of the pulp, of a deinking agent which is at least one fatty alcohol having in the range of from about 8 to about 18 carbon atoms, without the use of other deinking agents, and treating the resulting pulp-containing medium by washing or flotation to removed suspended ink therefrom.

Abstract: A method for deinking dry toner electrostatic printed wastepaper is disclosed. The method comprises administering a sufficient amount of a surfactant with a hydrophile/lipophile balance of from about 0.5 to 10.0 to a sample of electrostatic printed wastepaper for which treatment is desired.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for regenerating wastepaper and to the use of certain hydroxysulfonate salts for removing printing ink from printed wastepaper and/or paper circuit waters.

Abstract: Secondary pulp is deinked and bleached by contacting the pulp simultaneously with oxygen, alkali, and a surfactant in a reaction zone followed by washing to recover a secondary fiber product. Simultaneous contacting with oxygen and surfactant yields higher pulp brightness than sequential contacting in oxygen bleaching and washing stages, and enhances bleachability in further bleaching stages.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the flotation of fillers from deinked wastepaper in the presence of organic phosphoric acid esters. The flotation of the fillers occurs after deinking the wastepaper by flotation.

Abstract: A process for the recovery of fibers by means of flotation de-inking of waste paper which bears ink applied by flexographic printing or xerography, by reducing the paper to fibers in an aqueous medium with the addition of bleaching chemicals and auxiliaries containing peroxide, fatty acids, complexing agent, sodium hydroxide, and an additive based on polyglycol and a phosphoric ester mixture, produces fibers which are free from ink, which are useful as a recyclable material.

Abstract: The invention relates to the use of co-crystalline magnesite/magnesium hydroxide compositions as fillers for smoking article wrappers. Smoking articles made with wrappers containing these compositions exhibit significantly reduced sidestream smoke and does not compromise subjective attributes.

Abstract: In a process for processing waste paper, aqueous suspensions of pulp are treated with cationic layer compounds precipitated in situ. The separated printing inks, fillers and/or unwanted substances are then removed from the fibrous suspensions in a known manner by flotation or washing out.

Abstract: According to the invention, wastepaper is refined in the presence of alkoxylation products obtainable by reaction of alkylene oxides with C.sub.10-22 carboxylic acid derivatives and/or C.sub.10-22 carboxylic acids containing carboxylic acid residues with at least one OH group in the 9, 10, 13 and/or 14 position and the detached printing ink particles are subsequently removed from the paper stock suspensions by flotation or washing.

Abstract: A method is disclosed for the detackification of stickies in the production of recycled paper products containing secondary fibers. Oxygen is used to reduce the tackiness of stickies in secondary pulps, and optionally is used with alkali and/or detackification agents for optimum stickies control. The preferred alkali source is fully oxidized white liquor.

Abstract: Color from dyes is removed from secondary pulps with non-chlorine based bleaching agents in treating sequences using oxygen with combinations of peroxide, ozone, and/or hydrosulfite at controlled pH conditions (less than 8 or greater than 10). Acid treatment prior to bleaching steps improves color removal and protects fibers from damage at more severe bleaching conditions.

Abstract: A method for deinking dry toner electrostatic printed wastepaper is disclosed. The method includes administering a sufficient amount of an ethoxylated surfactant, propoxylated surfactant, esterified surfactant or alkanolamide surfactant having an HLB value of less than 10.0 to a sample of electrostatic printed wastepaper for which treatment is desired.

Abstract: Dialkylated aryl monosulfonic acids or salts thereof or their mixture are useful as collectors in the flotation of minerals, particularly oxide minerals. Particularly useful are those sulfonic acids or salts in which the alkyl substituents are unsymmetrical. Collector compositions comprising these salts and sulfide collectors such as xanthates are useful in flotations conducted at natural pH of the slurry.

Abstract: Dialkylated aryl sulfonic acids or salts thereof or their mixture are useful as collectors in the flotation of minerals, particularly oxide minerals. Collector compositions comprising these salts and oleic acid are particularly useful in hard water. Collector compositions comprising these salts and sulfide collectors such as xanthates are useful in flotations conducted at natural pH of the slurry.

Abstract: A process for deinking wastepaper with an aqueous system, which includes:(a) contacting wastepaper with an aqueous system which contains an agent of one or more organically modified smectite-type clays; and(b) recovering deinked paper pulp from the aqueous system.

Abstract: The invention provides an improvement in the quality and quantity of cellulosic fibers recovered in recycling wastepaper contained in waste material packaged in compressed bale form by sufficiently wetting the baled waste material with a liquid that wastepaper cellulosic fibers will soften and swell prior to the waste material being subjected to the recycling pulping operation.

Abstract: Waste cellulosic material, for example corrugated paperboard is cooked in an aqueous alkaline cooking liquor to produce a brownstock pulp having a kappa number lower than that of the waste material; combustion of organic materials in the brownstock washing liquor provides heat energy which can be recovered for use in the cooking process and residual inorganic chemicals of the liquor can be employed to prepare fresh cooking liquor; the recycled pulp can be employed as the sole pulp component of brown paper products, or can be bleached to provide a pulp for white paper products.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a process for repulping or reclaiming fibers from latex-impregnated materials such as latex impregnated papers. The process involves treating the latex-impregnated material with an alkali solution for a sufficient period of time to separate the latex polymer from the fibers. This is followed by a washing step to rinse away the latex polymer thereby leaving the reclaimed fibers for subsequent use such as the formation of new paper stock.

Abstract: A composition and method for the improved deinking of groundwood newsprint is disclosed. The composition comprises an amount, effective for the intended purpose, of: 1) an anionic surfactant, e.g., the ammonium or sodium salts of a sulfated ethoxylate derived from a 12 to 14 carbon linear primary alcohol blend, and 2) a dispersant, e.g., naphthalene-formaldehyde condensates.The method comprises administering a sufficient amount of this combined treatment to a sample of groundwood newsprint for which treatment is desired.

Abstract: Alkylated diaryl oxide monosulfonic acids or salts thereof or their mixture are useful as collectors in the flotation of minerals, particularly oxide minerals.

Abstract: A flotation process for the de-inking of printed waste-paper by treating the paper pulp in the pulper at alkaline pH-values by means of alkali silicate, oxidative bleaches and separating the loosened printing-ink particles from the fibrous material suspension by flotation, in which protein fatty acid condensates are added finely distributed, possibly together with dispersing agents, in a solution or dispersion which is fluid at normal temperature.

Abstract: Process for deinking printed waste paper by treatment of the paper pulp in a pulper at alkaline pH values using alkali silicate, oxidative bleaches, higher fatty and/or resinic acids and dispersants and separation of the detached printing ink particles from the fiber suspension by flotation, the fatty and/or resinic acids being used in the form of their alkaline earth metal salts in fine distribution together with dispersants in an oil-in-water dispersion which is liquid at normal temperature.

Abstract: A process for recycling waste paper is disclosed in which an alkali metal Kurrol's salt, preferably potassium Kurrol's salt, is added to the process water.

Abstract: A waste paper recycling process relates to the treatment of a mixture of waste paper containing non-cellulosic contraries and printing inks, in order to release the contraries from the fibers and further to separate them from the stock in order to produce re-usable pulp for the production of paper and board.The invention has to do with new and useful improvements in methods for first removing the non-ink contraries from the fibrous mass and second releasing and then removing the ink particles from the said fibrous mass.The invention is directed to the treatment of the fiber slurry produced during the ink separation stage, after the ink releasing stage has been applied. One aim of the process is to allow both the use of the fibers and the mineral fillers contained in that slurry, for pulp and board making, and the use the solids-free water contained in the same slurry as the washing liquid in the previous ink-separation treatment, thus closing the fibers and the water circuits.

Abstract: Cellulosic fibers containing latex solids are recovered from latex bonded broke by agitation of the broke in an aqueous alkaline solution having an alkali metal hydroxide concentration of 0.5 to 1.5 mol percent for a period of time in the range of ten minutes to four hours. The resulting fibers containing cured latex solids may be added to conventional papermaking fibers in amounts as high as 10 to 15 percent by weight for the production of facial quality tissue to produce a high quality product web.

Abstract: Waste paper fibers containing tacky impurities processed for the preparation of recycle paper fiber products in the presence of a surface-active tertiary amine or tertiary or quaternary ammonium compound, thereby reducing discoloration and tackiness.

Abstract: A process for the deinking of waste newsprint, which comprises steps for(a) converting the waste newsprint to a pulp,(b) contacting and agitating the pulp in an aqueous medium containing a deinking agent comprising a mixture of (i) a water-soluble C.sub.9 to C.sub.16 alkanol ethoxylate component having an average of about 6.5 to 20 oxyethylene units per ethoxylate molecule and (ii) an oil-soluble C.sub.9 to C.sub.16 alkanol ethoxylate component having an average of about 0.5 to 3.5 oxyethylene units per ethoxylate molecule, said mixture containing the respective components (i) and (ii) in a relative weight ratio in the range from about 2:1 to 1:3, and said mixture being present in said aqueous medium in an amount between about 0.1 and 5 percent by weight based on the dry weight of the newsprint fiber, and(c) recovering deinked pulp from the aqueous medium.The invention offers high performance in the removal of ink from pulp fibers and substantially eliminates the foaming of aqueous surfactant solution.

Abstract: A method for the deinking of wastepaper which comprises converting the wastepaper to a pulp, contacting the pulp with an aqueous medium of alkaline pH containing between about 0.2 and 2 percent by weight, calculated on dry weight of the pulp, of a deinking agent which is one or a mixture of certain thiol ethoxylate compounds, and treating the resulting pulp-containing medium to remove suspended or dispersed ink. The use of a thiol ethoxylate deinking agent offers a high level of performance in such a deinking process, both from the standpoint of the overall brightness and dirt count of paper prepared from the deinked pulp. In certain specific embodiments, the invention further comprises a step for treating thiol ethoxylate containing process streams and effluents to convert the surface active deinking agent to low-foaming sulfonyl derivatives, or to degrade the deinking agent to non-surface-active matter.

Abstract: There is disclosed an improvement to the process for the de-inking of printed waste paper which comprises (1) treating the waste paper in a pulper at an alkaline pH with alkali silicate, an oxidatively active bleaching agent, one or more acid components selected from the group consisting of fatty acids and resinic acids containing more than 10 carbon atoms, and mixtures thereof, and a dispersing agent, and (2) separating the detached printing ink particles from the fiber suspension by either flotation, washing, or a combination thereof. The improvement comprises employing the acid and the dispersing agent in the form of an oil-in-water emulsion.

Abstract: Waste paper containing polymeric contaminants is broken down in the presence of an acidic aqueous solution containing at least one peracid.

Abstract: Washing methods of deinking secondary cellulose fiber (i.e., removing unwanted non-cellulose materials therefrom) are disclosed. These washing methods (as opposed to flotation methods) generally involve deinking the fiber with surface active agent (surfactant).The present invention utilizes a single foam-suppressing surface active agent consisting essentially ofR--(Ar)--(OC.sub.2 H.sub.4)m--(OC.sub.3 H.sub.6)n--Y;wherein R represents a monovalent higher aliphatic group containing from 6 to 24 carbon atoms,Ar represents an aromatic residue,--(OC.sub.2 H.sub.4)m--being a poly(ethylene oxide) chain,--(OC.sub.3 H.sub.6)n--being a poly(propylene oxide) chain;m is about 6 to about 15,n is about 12 to about 48,m:n is less than 1, andY is selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl and benzyl ether.The present washing method of deinking reduces or eliminates objectionable foam, potentially provides energy savings yet maintains or improves the quality of the deinked fiber.

Abstract: The novel, advantageous, and economical process of reclaiming printed waste paper comprises subjecting waste paper to a flotation de-inking process. The degree of whiteness of the reclaimed paper is considerably increased by the addition of specific phosphonic acid compounds to the de-inking bath. Hydroxy carboxylic acids, amino carboxylic acids, polycarboxylic acids as well as magnesium sulfate may also be added to the de-inking bath containing the phosphonic acids.

Abstract: The present invention relates to liquid soaps for use in paper re-cycling and other industrial cleaning or scouring processes.The liquid soap comprises an aqueous partially saponified mixture comprising 1 part of pine oil (a mixture of terpene alcohols and hydrocarbons) and from 1 to 20 parts of a soap-making fatty acid, such as tall oil or distilled oil. The mixture is preferably saponified by use of 30% sodium hydroxide solution. The liquid soap may contain less than 10% water.

Abstract: Latices which contain an addition polymer comprising an ethylenically unsaturated amic acid and at least one other ethylenically unsaturated monomer are used as binders for fibrous webs to impart wet and dry strength.

Abstract: A process is set forth for the recovery of fiber from paper waste and paper broke which paper has been treated with wet-strength resins. The process involves shredding the paper to be recovered and then subjecting the shredded paper to an alkaline solution and an oxygen containing atmosphere to liberate the paper fiber from the resin with retention of the paper fiber brightness. The liberated fiber can then be recycled through the paper web forming process. The process is particularly appropriate to the removal of thermoplastic resins from paper.