| ANDRITZ OY Patent applications |
| Patent application number | Title | Published |
| 20120024426 | DEBARKING MECHANISM AND METHOD - A debarking mechanism including of rotatable debarking shafts extending parallel to an advancing direction (A) of the logs to be fed therethrough, which are provided with teeth extending beyond the circumferential surface of the shaft. At least the uppermost debarking shaft is moved sideways towards the inner part of the debarking mechanism in such a way that each debarking shaft directs an impact effect on logs colliding with it and moved by the debarking shafts located in a lower position. The circumferential speed of the debarking shaft is selected to be the greater the higher the debarking shaft is positioned. A free passage is arranged for the bark passing over the debarking shaft. | 02-02-2012 |
| 20110280762 | METHOD IN THE TREATMENT OF ODOROUS GASES OF A CHEMICAL PULP MILL - A method for treating odorous gases of a chemical pulp mill, according to which method odorous gases are combusted in a separate combustion device and flue gas generated therein is scrubbed. The scrubbed flue gas is led into a recovery boiler. The flue gas is scrubbed in a series of scrubbers wherein scrubbing solution discharged from one scrubber may be fed to a preceding scrubber. | 11-17-2011 |
| 20110240783 | METHOD AND ARRANGEMENT FOR IMPROVING THE FIXING ARRANGEMENT OF A CHIPPER BLADE - A fixing arrangement of a chipper blade for a chipper having a cylindrical blade disc, one end surface of which is provided with one or more blades extending essentially radially in relation to the blade disc and for support thereof a wearing segment is arranged, the chipper is provided with a wearing surface subsequent the blade for resisting the stress caused by the logs being chipped in the chipper. At least one blade segment is arranged to be supported onto the blade and the wearing segment, an upper surface of which forms a desired portion of the wearing surface, and a coating is formed on the upper surface to resist stress. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110240243 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A LIQUID GUN - An apparatus for cleaning and cooling a liquor nozzle, the nozzle including at least a liquor tube for feeding liquor and chemicals into a furnace of a recovery boiler. The apparatus includes an outer casing tube, which defines a space whereto conduits are provided for introducing water and steam to generate an emulsion or a conduit for introducing emulsion generated by the water and steam and the surface of which is provided with openings, such as pores or holes, for discharging the emulsion formed by water and steam through the outer casing. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110094857 | APPARATUS FOR STORING ROLLING MATERIAL IN A PILE AND RECLAIMING FROM THE PILE - The invention relates to an apparatus for stacking rolling material, such as e.g. wood chips, bark or grain into a pile ( | 04-28-2011 |
| 20110088998 | AN APPARATUS FOR STORING ROLLING MATERIAL IN A PILE AND RECLAIMING FROM THE PILE - The invention relates to an apparatus for stacking rolling material, such as wood chips, bark or grain into a pile ( | 04-21-2011 |
| 20110079492 | AN APPARATUS FOR RECLAIMING ROLLING MATERIAL FROM A PILE - The invention relates to an apparatus for reclaiming rolling material, such as e.g. wood chips, bark or corn from a pile ( | 04-07-2011 |
| 20100243184 | METHOD FOR TREATING LIQUID FLOWS AT A CHEMICAL PULP MILL - A method for treating liquid flows at a chemical pulp mill including at least an alkaline cooking process for producing pulp, brown stock treatment with essentially closed liquid cycles, a pulp bleaching plant using ECF-bleaching, a chemical recovery plant comprising a chemical recovery boiler, and effluent purification. Chloride-containing bleaching plant effluents are led to the effluent purification, where they are treated in order to decrease the organic matter content thereof. At least 20% of the purified effluent is returned to a pulp mill process and purified effluent is used in a last washing stage included in brown stock treatment. In the brown stock treatment the liquid flow is passed counter-currently to evaporation, wherefrom it is led for treatment to a recovery boiler process, wherein a separation process for chlorides is arranged for controlling the chloride level of the liquor cycle. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100243183 | METHOD IN CONNECTION WITH THE WASHING OF PULP AT A CHEMICAL PULP MILL - A method in connection with washing of pulp at a chemical pulp mill including at least an alkaline cooking process utilizing cooking liquor for producing pulp, brown stock treatment with essentially closed liquid cycles, in which the last washing device is a washing device based on pressing of pulp, a press or a washing press, a pulp bleaching plant using ECF-bleaching, wherein chloride-containing effluents are formed, a chemical recovery plant and effluent purification. The liquid flows generated at a chemical pulp mill are efficiently circulated without disturbing the main process and minimizing the emissions from the mill. Purified effluent in the amount of at least 1 m3/adt pulp is introduced into the dilution after the press or washing press, whereby the effluent is passed from the dilution into the first process stage of the bleaching. | 09-30-2010 |
| 20100224334 | METHOD FOR TREATING LIQUID FLOWS AT A CHEMICAL PULP MILL - A method for treating liquid flows at a chemical pulp mill including at least an alkaline cooking process for producing pulp, treatment of brown stock generated in the cooking, a bleaching plant using ECF-bleaching, in which chloride-containing effluents are formed, an effluent purification plant for treating bleaching plant effluents and other effluents generated at the mill. At least a portion of the effluents is returned after the purification to the pulp production line as source of process water. More than one treatment line is arranged at the effluent purification plant for the mill effluents and effluents with different chemical compositions are purified in separate treatment lines so that the quality and amount of purified water from each treatment line is suitable for use in a stage or stages of the production process, whereto purified effluent is returned. | 09-09-2010 |
| 20100126686 | APPARATUS FOR REMOVING GAS IN CONNECTION WITH A PAPER MACHINE OR CORRESPONDING - An apparatus in connection with wire water treatment in the approach system of a paper machine, board machine or corresponding web formation machine, which apparatus includes a deaeration tank connected to devices for generating a vacuum inside the deaeration tank. At least one wire water feed pipe extends into the tank, which pipe opens into a vacuum space above the liquid surface level in the tank. A wire water discharge duct is connected to the bottom part of the tank. The feed pipe extends above the liquid level in the tank so that the wire water overflows the edge of the feed pipe onto the liquid level in the tank and the wire water discharge conduit extends downward and is connected to a pump. | 05-27-2010 |
| 20100101463 | COMBUSTION AIR SYSTEM FOR RECOVERY BOILERS, BURNING SPENT LIQUORS FROM PULPING PROCESSES - An arrangement is disclosed for supplying an air jet form to the furnace of a recovery boiler, where the furnace has a front wall, a rear wall and side walls. Black liquor spraying devices are disposed on the furnace walls on one or several levels of the furnace. A plurality of air ports are located at several horizontal elevations for introducing air into the furnace from an air supply. In the arrangement for the secondary air flows, at least two horizontal air levels at different elevations are arranged above the lower primary levels and below the black liquor sprayer. Secondary air is supplied from two opposite walls. The secondary air ports on each of said first and second horizontal elevations comprise air ports for each horizontal elevation that project a pattern of large air jets into the furnace from said opposite walls and said secondary air ports further comprise a plurality of secondary air ports on at least one of the elevations that project smaller air jets into the furnace. | 04-29-2010 |
| 20100086476 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING LIME MUD - A method for feeding lime mud into a lime kiln including a rotary kiln shell having an interior between a first end wall and a second end wall, the method including: feeding the lime mud into a flue gas flow in the interior of the rotary kiln shell or in close proximity to the shell to pretreat the lime mud; separating the pretreated lime mud from the flue gas flow; conveying the separated lime mud into the lime kiln, and calcining the separated lime mud in the lime kiln. | 04-08-2010 |
| 20100025191 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING LOGS - The present invention relates to a method of processing logs by means of an apparatus comprising a transportation level in the advancing direction (P) of the logs, where they are arranged to be transported in a position perpendicular to their advancing direction (P), and where orifice members going therethrough and extending in the advancing direction (P) of the logs. In the method, at least two support member units spaced from each other are arranged below the transportation level whereby each support member unit comprises at least one elongated support member, which is arranged rotatably parallel to the transportation level and perpendicular to the advancing direction (P) and protruding therefrom, and said axis of rotation of each support member unit is adapted so that when rotating, the support members protrude through the orifice members above the transportation level whereby the logs are received in one or more receiving spaces formed between the support members protruding above the transportation level. The invention also relates to an apparatus for implementing said method. | 02-04-2010 |
| 20090272339 | COOLING SYSTEM FOR PORTS IN A BOILER - A cooling system for air ports and other ports in furnace walls includes a cooling medium pumping system and ports provided with a cooling medium piping or channels inside the metallic port material. The liquid flow generated by the cooling medium system cools the ports. The ports are constructed of a casting material, and the ports are provided with a cooling liquid flow, which passes in a piping or pipings or channels inside the casting material of the ports. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090188635 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TREATING PULP - A method of dividing a suspension, especially a fiber suspension into an accept fraction and a fraction containing impurity particles in a centrifugal cleaning plant having at least two stages. The suspension is fed to a preceding stage, wherefrom a heavier fraction of the suspension is taken as accept fraction and a lighter fraction is taken as fraction containing impurity particles. The lighter fraction containing impurity particles is fed into a latter stage of the centrifugal cleaning plant. Before being fed to the latter stage, the feed consistency of the lighter fraction is increased. | 07-30-2009 |
| 20090139468 | CONTROL OF A RECOVERY BOILER OR ALIKE - Method and system for controlling the operation of a recovery boiler or another boiler having a furnace wherein the operation is monitored by monitoring sensors, the sensors converting the acquired electromagnetic radiation to electrical signals which are conducted to image processing which forms an image of an object, such as the char bed and/or the char and/or chemicals on the furnace walls and/or deposits on boiler surfaces, based on the data from the sensors, and wherein the operation, such as burning of the char bed and/or the formation of char and/or chemicals on the furnace walls and/or the formation of deposits on boiler surfaces, is controlled with help of the image, wherein the sensors are arranged to produce sensor signals for 3D (three-dimensional) imaging, wherein the sensor signals are conducted to the image processing unit for forming a 3D image, such as an image of the bed and/or the char and/or the chemicals, and/or its shape describing derivatives, and/or temperature chart of the bed surface, and wherein the image processing further comprises a filtering phase wherein the sensor signals or the 3D image are/is filtered in order to avoid the thermal radiation emission of hot gases, liquids and/or particles in the furnace, wherein the sensor signals or the 3D image are/is conducted to a filter unit filtering the signals/images to several relatively narrow bands (BAND | 06-04-2009 |
| 20090084711 | APPARATUS FOR SCREENING FIBROUS SUSPENSIONS - An apparatus for screening a fibrous suspension including: a housing, conduits therein at least for fiber suspension being fed, reject and accept, and a rotor and a cylindrical screen drum installed in the housing, at least one of which is rotatable, whereby a surface of the rotor is provided with rotor elements in proximity to the surface of the screen drum, whereby each rotor element includes a front surface facing a flow of the fiber suspension, an upper surface and a trailing surface sloping from the upper surface towards the surface of the rotor, wherein the trailing surface of the rotor element is curved and sidewalls of the trailing surface converge at a back point of the rotor element. | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090071619 | APPARATUS FOR DISTRIBUTING A PULP FLOW - An apparatus for distributing a pulp flow, said apparatus including: a valve body connected to an inlet conduit and an outlet conduit for the pulp flow and provided with a closing member for opening and closing the valve to regulate the pulp flow; a distribution member arranged in a direction the pulp flow and downstream of the closing member, said distribution member distributing the pulp flow into at least two partial flows, and at least two channels wherein each channel receives a respective one of the two partial flows, wherein said channels are connected to the valve body or to the outlet conduit from the valve. | 03-19-2009 |
| 20090044767 | BOILER ARRANGEMENT - In a boiler, a space is reserved to expand the boiler by increasing the front and rear walls. To expand the boiler, wall additions are added to increase the width of the front and rear walls. After the expansion, the distance between the front and rear walls is substantially the same distance between the front and rear walls before the expansion. | 02-19-2009 |
| 20090038769 | ARRANGEMENT IN CONNECTION WITH SCREENING APPARATUSES - An arrangement in screening apparatuses of the pulp and paper industry, including a conduit for removing reject formed in a screening process. The circulation of material is arranged between the reject removal conduit and the interior of the screening apparatus from the removal conduit into the interior of the screening apparatus via a conduit external to the screening apparatus. When such a by-pass flow is arranged for pulp via external circulation, heavy particles in the layer being diluted are allowed to be separated onto the bottom of the reject removal conduit and therethrough e.g. into a separate junk trap. | 02-12-2009 |
| 20090014137 | APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR A LIQUID GUN - An apparatus for cleaning and cooling a liquor nozzle, the nozzle including at least a liquor tube for feeding liquor and chemicals into a furnace of a recovery boiler. The apparatus includes an outer casing tube, which defines a space whereto conduits are provided for introducing water and steam to generate an emulsion or a conduit for introducing emulsion generated by the water and steam and the surface of which is provided with openings, such as pores or holes, for discharging the emulsion formed by water and steam through the outer casing. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20080289782 | RECOVERY PROCESS AND SYSTEM FOR A PULP MILL - A method for burning chlorine-containing liquors in a chemical recovery boiler at a pulp mill, wherein the recovery boiler includes spent liquor sprayers for feeding spent liquor and a number of combustion air levels including: increasing a combustion temperature in the recovery boiler in a burning zone where a chlorine-containing liquor or a chlorine-containing effluent is burned; while burning the liquor or effluent, volatilizing the chlorine in the liquor or effluent to produce chloride-containing salts in flue gases in the boiler, and removing the chloride-containing salts from the flue gases. | 11-27-2008 |
| 20080196848 | Apparatus and Method for Washing Pulps - An apparatus for treating pulp including: at least one liquid-permeable surface rotating around a shaft, onto which surface a pulp layer is formed; a feeder to feed pulp to the apparatus for treatment on the liquid-permeable surface; an internal barrier defining a first pulp treatment section and a second pulp treatment section; the first treatment section receiving from the feeder a first type of pulp and the second treatment section receiving from the feeder a second type of pulp, wherein the first type of pulp is supplied to the feeder from a first pulp treatment stage in a pulping system and the second type of pulp is supplied to the feeder from a second pulp treatment stage in the pulping system, and a pulp discharge to discharge treated pulp from the apparatus, wherein the pulp discharge discharges the first type of pulp after treatment separately from discharging the second type of pulp after treatment, and a filtrate discharge to discharge filtrate flowing through the liquid-permeable from the apparatus. | 08-21-2008 |