Patent application number | Description | Published |
20130000855 | METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING NANOFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE PULP AND USE OF THE PULP IN PAPER MANUFACTURING OR IN NANOFIBRILLATED CELLULOSE COMPOSITES - A method for manufacturing pulp. The manufactured pulp includes at least 30 w-% nanofibrillated cellulose material measured from the dried pulp. A raw material is introduced to a system. The raw material includes cellulose. At least one type of an optical brightening agent is dosed as a refining additive to the system. The raw material is refined in the presence of the dosed optical brightening agent in at least one pre-refining stage or fibrillation stage to form fibrillar cellulose material. | 01-03-2013 |
20130345416 | METHOD FOR PROCESSING NANOFIBRILLAR CELLULOSE AND PRODUCT OBTAINED BY THE METHOD - The invention relates to a method for processing an aqueous gel of nanofibrillar cellulose by removing water from the aqueous gel by means of an organic solvent miscible with water. In the method: aqueous gel is introduced into a volume of organic solvent miscible with water in a controlled manner so that the aqueous gel is kept as a separate phase and forms discrete physical entities containing the nanofibrillar cellulose within the phase; water is changed with the organic solvent in said discrete physical entities of nanofibrillar cellulose; and the physical entities are separated from the volume of organic solvent. | 12-26-2013 |
20140083416 | PROCESS FOR PREPARING MICRO- AND NANOCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE - The invention relates to a process for preparing micro- and nanocrystailine cellulose material in the presence of an acid. More specifically, the invention relates to a process, in which the cellulose material is hydrolyzed in the presence of an acid in the gas phase while the moisture content of cellulose is between 1% and 80%, the cellulose material is surface-modified, and mech anically treated in order to obtain micro- and/or nanocrystailine cellulose material. The invention also relates to a cellulose product prepared by the said process and the use thereof in food and liquid crystal applications as well as in optical, cosmetic and medical applications. | 03-27-2014 |
20140083634 | METHOD AND AN APPARATUS FOR PRODUCING NANOCELLULOSE - Described herein is nanocellulose produced by introducing a mixture of cellulose based fiber raw material and water through a refining gap, having a width smaller than 0.1 mm. In the refining gap, the fiber raw material is subjected to processing forces varying in the direction of introducing said mixture, by means of refining zones provided in the gap one after each other in the feeding direction, whereby the refining surfaces differ in surface patterning and/or surface roughness. The mixture of fiber raw material and water is guided past the refining surfaces in the feeding direction to different locations in the refining zone by by-pass channels provided in the stator. The width of the refining gap is maintained by the combined effect of the feeding pressure of the mixture of fiber raw material and water fed into the refining gap and the axial force of the rotor. | 03-27-2014 |
20140110070 | METHOD FOR CATALYTIC OXIDATION OF CELLULOSE AND METHOD FOR MAKING A CELLULOSE PRODUCT - In a method for catalytic oxidation of cellulose a heterocyclic nitroxyl radical is used as catalyst, hypochlorite is used as main oxidant acting as oxygen source, and a tertiary amine or chlorine dioxide as an activator of the heterocyclic nitroxyl radical. | 04-24-2014 |
20140114059 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING CELLULOSIC MATERIAL - A method for manufacturing cellulosic material includes: introducing cellulose fibers as cellulosic raw material to a system, conveying the cellulose fibers to an extruder comprising a mixing part and/or a refining part, dosing at least one chemical to the system before the extruder and/or in the extruder and performing a reaction between the cellulose fibers and the chemical(s) at least partly in the extruder, wherein the reaction is performed at a consistency of at least 40%, and/or dosing at least one chemical to the system before the extruder and/or in the extruder and mixing the cellulose fibers and the chemical(s) in the mixing part of the extruder, wherein the mixing step is performed at a consistency of at least 40%, and/or refining the introduced cellulose fibers at least partly in the refining part of the extruder, wherein the refining step is performed at a consistency of at least 5%. | 04-24-2014 |
20140284407 | A METHOD FOR PRODUCING NANOFIBRILLAR CELLULOSE - In a method for producing nanofibril cellulose, cellulose based fibre material, in which internal bonds in the cellulose fibre have been weakened by chemical modification, are supplied, for separating fibrils, through several counter-rotating rotors outwards in the radial direction with respect to the rotation axis of the rotors in such a way that the material is repeatedly subjected to shearing and impacting forces by the effect of the blades of the different counter-rotating rotors, whereby it is simultaneously fibrillated. | 09-25-2014 |
20140323714 | METHOD AND A SYSTEM FOR MANUFACTURING CELLULOSE MATERIAL - The invention relates to a method for manufacturing cellulose material, the method comprising introducing cellulose fibers as raw material pulp ( | 10-30-2014 |
20140329094 | METHOD FOR CONCENTRATING FIBRIL CELLULOSE AND FIBRIL CELLULOSE PRODUCT - A method for concentrating fibril cellulose including subjecting aqueous fibril cellulose at a concentration of not higher than 5% to pressure filtration where water is removed from the fibril cellulose by applying pressure to the aqueous fibril cellulose, and continuing the pressure filtration continued to an end point where over 50% of the water initially present is removed from the fibril cellulose. The pressure filtration is performed at a temperature of 30° C. or higher. | 11-06-2014 |
20140374045 | METHOD FOR PRETREATING CELLULOSE PULP - A Method of pretreating native cellulose pulp in the manufacture of nanofibrillated cellulose, and a nanofibrillated cellulose product obtainable by the method. | 12-25-2014 |
20150034263 | METHOD FOR FIBRILLATION OF CELLULOSE AND FIBRIL CELLULOSE PRODUCT - A method for fibrillation of cellulose includes the following steps: introducing fibre pulp of anionic cellulose at a consistency of 1 to 4% into a homogenizer, and homogenizing fibre pulp in the homogenizer at a pressure of 200 to 1000 bar, advantageously 300 to 650 bar, and by using 2 to 4 passes through for the same fibre pulp under these conditions, and after passes through, taking pulp from the homogenizer, which pulp has been fibrillated by homogenization to a degree than can be expressed as Brookfield viscosity exceeding 10,000 mPa.s (consistency 0.8%, 10 rpm). | 02-05-2015 |
20150045549 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR PROCESSING FIBRIL CELLULOSE AND FIBRIL CELLULOSE PRODUCT - A method for processing fibril cellulose which is in the form of aqueous fibril cellulose gel includes lowering the pH of the aqueous fibril cellulose gel to provide aqueous fibril cellulose gel of reduced water retention capacity, and dewatering the aqueous fibril cellulose gel of reduced water retention capacity to provide dewatered fibril cellulose. The dewatering is performed by pressure filtration. | 02-12-2015 |
20150057442 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR FIBRILLATION OF CELLULOSE CONTAINING MATERIALS - In a method for manufacturing fibril cellulose, cellulose based fibre raw material is processed mechanically in a refining gap for separating fibrils. The fibres to be refined are subjected to the action of a surface roughness Ra provided by grits elevated from a refining surface delimiting the refining gap, said surface roughness being lower than 3 μm, advantageously lower than 2 μm. The refining surface is formed by spraying grits and binder onto a substrate. | 02-26-2015 |