HEDP USED AS CHELATING AGENT DURING OPQP BLEACHING SEQUENCE OF ACACIA MANGIUM KRAFT PULP

• Published in: Bioresources Vol. 7; no. 4; pp. 5200 - 5210
• Main Authors: Pang, Jin-Jiang, Liu, Zhong, Hui, Lan-Feng, Jiang, Hua-Peng, Si, Chuan-Ling
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: North Carolina State University 01.11.2012
• Subjects: 1-diphosphonic acid; 1-hydroxy ethylidene-1; Box-Behnken design; OPQP bleaching sequence; Response surface methodology
• ISSN: 1930-2126; 1930-2126
• DOI: 10.15376/biores.7.4.5200-5210

In an effort to resolve problems related to the difficulty of degradation of the chelating agents EDTA and DTPA, this study used a kind of water treatment agent, 1-hydroxy ethylidene-1,1-diphosphonic acid (HEDP), as the chelating agent in the OPQP bleaching sequence of Acacia mangium kraft pulp. The Q stage was optimized with the use of response surface methodology (RSM) based on the Box-Behnken design (BBD). The results showed that the optimum chelating conditions for subsequent hydrogen peroxide bleaching were the following: Temperature of 54 °C, hold time 32 min, and dosage of agents 0.4%. These conditions resulted in the highest brightness value of 80.12% ISO and the selectivity coefficient of 0.46. Under these optimum chelating conditions, the results showed that the effect of HEDP in bleaching is better than that of EDTA with regard to viscosity of pulp, and that HEDP is similar to EDTA and DTPA in other properties.