PULPING PROCESS FOR CORN STOVER AND OTHER NONWOOD FIBROUS MATERIALS

Fuente: WIPO "industrial hemp"
A process for producing a pulp suitable for papermaking from a nonwood fiber source material. Representative nonwood fiber source materials include corn stover and wheat straw. The process includes the steps of providing a nonwood fiber source material; digesting (38, 40) the nonwood fiber source material with an alkaline pulping solution at at least about atmospheric pressure; reducing the pH (58) of the nonwood fiber source material to an acidic pH with an acid solution; treating the nonwood fiber source material having an acidic pH with ozone (214); and treating the nonwood fiber source material with a bleaching solution to form a papermaking pulp.