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    The invention is directed to a method for producing a purified lignin salt from alkaline spent liquor from the chemical cooking of lignocellulosic raw materials. The method comprises the steps of decreasing the spent liquor pH to form a lignin precipitate suspension; filtering the lignin precipitate to form a lignin filter cake and a filtrate; mixing the lignin filter cake into a dilution liquid to form an alkalilignin agglomerate colloid; subjecting the alkalilignin agglomerate colloid to large-pore membrane filtration; and recovering a purified lignin salt concentrate.
    公开号:FI20215920A1
    申请号:FI20215920
    申请日:2020-02-10
    公开日:2021-09-02
    发明作者:Eric Enqvist；Ville Tarvo；Panu Tikka
    申请人:Scitech Service Oy；
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    [0001] [0001] The present invention relates to lignin separation and purification. In particular, the present invention concerns a two-stage method of producing purified lignin salt from black liquor.BACKGROUND
    [0002] [0002] Lignin is a promising raw-material for bio-based products. — Significant quantities of lignin are available in the spent liquors from industrial Kraft pulping, i.e. in black liquor. Lignin concentration in black liquor is typically only 20-40 %-w on dry basis, with the rest of the dry matter comprising spent pulping chemicals and dissolved non-lignin wood components. High purity is important in lignin products. Hence, cost efficient separation and purification — operations are needed to make Kraft lignin utilization feasible in industrial scale.
    [0003] [0003] A well-known method for purification of lignin is ultrafiltration as described 1.a. by Luque et al, TAPPI Pulping Conference 1994, 7. Ultrafiltration is a fractionation process to produce from liquor, in high alkalinity (pH >12) where lignin is in dissolved form, a concentrate which is enriched in high molecular — mass lignin (e.g. 29 % over 15.000 Dalton, Luque et al.) and a permeate which = contains more of the low molecular mass lignin and other low molecular mass N black liguor components, inorganic salts and organic acids. 3 N [0004] Evidently, ultrafiltration increases the share of high molecular mass 7 lignin in the concentrate, but only modestly, from 15 to 29 % lignin over 15.000 E 25 — Dalton (Lugue et al). In addition to the rather modest fractionation result, the S ultrafiltration technical operation using Kraft black liguor is difficult due to = concentration polarization and membrane fouling. A continuous decline of flux N rate takes place, and ultrafiltration is not a very good fractioning method to produce a product of specific molar mass, since the fouling of membranes leads to a situation where the molecular mass distribution of the concentrated material changes all the time.
    [0005] [0005] A further example of conventional ultrafiltration is given in Rojas et al., “LIGNIN SEPARATION FROM KRAFT BLACK LIQUORS BY TANGENTIAL ULTRAFILTRATION”, Science and Technology, La Chimica e I’Industria - Gennaio-Febbraio ‘06 n. 1 - ANNO 88. (2006). This article provides an example of the problems faced in this approach. It is described how typical Kraft black liquor was ultra-filtrated using typical membranes. The average molecular weight for the examined industrial black liquor ranged from ca. 1700 to 20000 Da. The Mw of the concentrates and filtrates correlated with the membrane molecular weight cut-off (MWCO). However, Rojas et al. found that the effective molecular size of filtered particles was smaller than the membrane nominal molecular weight cut-off. This difference may be due to the typical clogging of membranes that is an inherent problem in this type of application, as — well as reduction in filtration flux due to membrane plugging and/or fouling.
    [0006] [0006] Black liquor contains a lot of inorganic salts and organic aliphatic and phenolic compounds which compromise the membrane performance thus making the molecular weight fractioning process very challenging, as described by Aminzadeh et al, MEMBRANE FILTRATION OF KRAFT LIGNIN:
    [0009] [0009] In the present context, the term “large-pore membrane filtration” refers to cross-flow filtration of particles formed of agglomerated lignin macromolecules. The cutoff point is at least 40 000 Dalton. Advantageously, the — cutoff point in a large-pore membrane filtration according to the present invention is in the range of 40 000-500 000 Da, preferably 50 000-200 000 Da.
    [0010] [0010] In the present context, a “dilution liquid” is an aqueous liquid having no significant ionic strength or significant amount of dissolved organic material. In addition to plain water, examples of dilution liquids commonly occurring in — pulp mills are condensate from an evaporation plant, filtrate from a bleach plant, or mill hot water.
    [0011] [0011] In the present context, a lignin salt is a chemical form of lignin, in which part of the acid groups in lignin are dissociated and the negative charge of the dissociated acid groups is counterbalanced by cations. The lignin salt may involve various cations, but typically there is one principal cation, which is the same as the cation of that alkaline pulping process, where the lignin salt originates = from. In case of Kraft lignin salt, the primary cation is sodium (Na*). & & [0012] In the present context, a lignin precipitate suspension is formed = when the original pulp mill black liguor pH is lowered to 9-10.5 using an acidic z 25 — substance. a o [0013] In the present context, a lignin filter cake is formed from the lignin 3 precipitate suspension by filtering on a filtering media.
    [0015] [0015] The invention is defined by the features of the independent claim. Some specific embodiments are defined in the dependent claims.
    [0016] [0016] It is the aim of the invention to overcome at least some of the drawbacks relating to the known state-of-the-art technical solutions described in the background section.
    [0017] [0017] According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for producing a purified lignin salt from alkaline spent liquor from the chemical cooking of lignocellulosic raw materials. The method comprises the steps of: — decreasing the spent liquor pH to form a lignin precipitate suspension — filtering the lignin precipitate to form a lignin filter cake and a filtrate — mixing the lignin filter cake into a dilution liquid to form an alkalilignin agglomerate colloid — subjecting the alkalilignin agglomerate colloid to large-pore membrane N filtration
    [0019] [0019] Advantageously, the decrease in pH in the spent liquor is carried out by the addition of H2SO4, HCI, SO or COs. Preferably, the decrease in pH is carried out by addition of CO».
    [0020] [0020] Advantageously, the decrease in pH in the spent liquor is carried out at atemperature in the range 40 — 85 °C.
    [0021] [0021] Advantageously, the pH in the spent liquor is decreased to below 11. Preferably, the spent liquor pH is decreased to 9 — 10.5.
    [0022] [0022] Advantageously, the large-pore-membrane filtration is carried out at a temperature in the range 20 — 85 °C.
    [0023] [0023] Advantageously, the large-pore-membrane filtration is carried out at = a pH in the range 7 — 11. N [0024] Next, the embodiments will be examined in more detail with 3 reference to the attached drawings.NO
    [0026] [0026] As briefly discussed above, presented is a method for producing purified alkalilignin salt. The method is a two-stage process as generally described in Figure 1.
    [0027] [0027] In the first stage of the present invention, an alkalilignin precipitate suspension is formed from the alkaline pulping spent liguor, i.e. black liguor (1), (dry solids content typically 25-45 weight-%) by decreasing pH to 9 — 10.5 (3), at a temperature between 40 — 85 °C. The formed alkalilignin suspension is filtered (5) making a filter lignin cake (7) and a permeate liguid (6) containing black liquor soluble components which are taken back to the pulp mill chemical cycle process.
    [0028] [0028] In the second stage the above mentioned filter lignin cake (7) is mixed with dilution liguid (8) using certain controlled mixing and temperature (9) and forming an alkalilignin agglomerate colloid (10) at typically 10 weight-% dry — solids content. This is the new, unexpected finding, the existence of alkalilignin as large colloidal agglomerate particles in diluted agueous solution, which particles have an average particle-mass over 50 kilodaltons and which enable the technically and industrially useful production of purified alkalilignin salt.
    [0029] [0029] The alkalilignin agglomerate colloid (10) is fed on a large-pore membrane (11) having cut-off pore size of 50 — 200 kilodalton typically in the temperature range of 20 — 85 °C. The alkalilignin remains in the concentrate (12), whereas most of the smaller particle and small molecular soluble components N transfer through the large-pore membrane into the permeate (13). The difference > and the technical advantage are significant compared to conventional x 25 ultrafiltration of lignin from black liquor using typically 5 kilodalton pore-size 2 special technology membranes. a 2 [0030] A significant advantage of the present invention compared to the 3 prior art lignin membrane separation (ultrafiltration) is that alkalilignin can be O enriched as large, colloidal particles, here called alkalilignin agglomerates. This is evident as an enriched concentrate can be made on a large-pore membrane characterized by ”molecular mass” cut-off of 50 — 200 kilodalton. Here this is called large-pore membrane filtration. The ”large-pore” in practical terms means typically a membrane pore size ten times the pore size used in conventional ultrafiltration.
    [0031] [0031] Large-pore membrane filtration according to the present invention is distinguished from ultrafiltration by several improvements and advantages.
    [0035] [0035] Various embodiments of the present invention have been described above but a person skilled in the art realizes also further minor alterations, which would fall into the scope of the present invention. The breadth and scope of the present invention should not be limited by any of the above-described exemplary embodiments, but should be defined only in accordance with the claims and their equivalents. EXAMPLE 1. Production of a purified Kraft lignin salt by large-pore membrane filtration
    [0036] [0036] The pH of softwood kraft black liquor was decreased to 10.0 using CO; at 60°C. The lignin precipitate suspension was filtered to obtain a kraft lignin filter cake with 57% dry matter content. The lignin filter cake was mixed with deionized water to form a lignin agglomerate colloid at 10% dry solids content. The lignin agglomerate colloid volume was pre-filtered and subjected to large- pore membrane filtration using Alfa Laval-GRSIPP 50 kDa cut-off membrane. — The large-pore membrane filtration test was carried out at 50°C to reach volume reduction Vr = 0.7 (Vr = Vpermeate/Vinitial). The resulting oven dry solids concentrations in the concentrate and permeate volumes were 19% and 2.7%, respectively.
    [0037] [0037] 81% of the lignin in the feed was recovered in the concentrate — volume, while 63% of the main inorganic anions (carbonate, sulphate) and 41% of the sodium were transferred into the permeate. Lignin concentration in the concentrate was 82% of total dry matter content, compared to 67% in the feed. SN The concentration of the main inorganic anions (carbonate and sulphate) in the N permeate was more or less half of that in the feed. The results indicate 3 25 considerable enrichment of lignin in the concentrate and inorganics in the S permeate. More detailed results are shown in Table 1 below. i
    [0038] [0038] The concentrate volume from Example 1 was mixed with deionized water to achieve 10% dry solids content and subjected to another large-pore membrane filtration test using Alfa Laval-GRSIPP 50 kDa cut-off membrane. The test was carried out at 50*C and continued until volume reduction Vr = 0.7 was reached (Vr = Vpermeate/Vinitial). The resulting oven dry solids concentrations in the concentrate and permeate volumes were 21% and 1.3%, respectively. — [0039] 95% of the lignin in feed #2 was recovered in the concentrate, while N more than half of the carbonate was transferred thru the membrane into the N permeate. Lignin concentration in the concentrate was 90% of total dry matter = content, compared to 82% in the feed. The results of example 2 indicate that 7 considerable further purification of lignin was achieved by re-diluting the a 20 — concentrate and repeating the large-pore membrane filtration. More detailed S results are shown in Table 2 below.OS
    [0040] [0040] EXAMPLE 1 and EXAMPLE 2 demonstrate that large-pore membrane filtration efficiently enriches and purifies the lignin agglomerates in the concentrate. High retention of lignin is achieved using 50 kDa membrane. This aspect is exceptional compared to for instance separation and purification of lignin macromolecules by ultrafiltration of black liguor, which, while using a — smaller pore 15 kDa membrane, only results in small lignin enrichment in the concentrate (20-30% of the lignin in feed, Vr = 0.9). [Wallberg et al (2003), Holmqvist et al. (2005)]
    [0041] [0041] It is to be understood that the embodiments of the invention disclosed are not limited to the particular structures, process steps, or materials N 15 — disclosed herein, but are extended to eguivalents thereof as would be recognized N by those ordinarily skilled in the relevant arts. It should also be understood that S terminology employed herein is used for the purpose of describing particular S embodiments only and is not intended to be limiting.
    [0043] [0043] As used herein, a plurality of items, structural elements, compositional elements, and/or materials may be presented in a common list for convenience. However, these lists should be construed as though each member of the list is individually identified as a separate and unigue member. Thus, no individual member of such list should be construed as a de facto equivalent of any other member of the same list solely based on their presentation in a common group without indications to the contrary. In addition, various embodiments and example of the present invention may be referred to herein along with alternatives for the various components thereof. It is understood that such embodiments, — examples, and alternatives are not to be construed as de facto equivalents of one another, but are to be considered as separate and autonomous representations of the present invention.
    [0044] [0044] Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In the following description, numerous specific details are provided, such as examples of lengths, widths, shapes, etc., to provide a thorough understanding of embodiments of the invention. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the invention can be practiced without one or more of the specific details, or with other methods, components, materials, etc. In other instances, well-known — structures, materials, or operations are not shown or described in detail to avoid obscuring aspects of the invention.
    [0045] [0045] While the foregoing examples are illustrative of the principles of the present invention in one or more particular applications, it will be apparent to N those of ordinary skill in the art that numerous modifications in form, usage and N 25 — details of implementation can be made without the exercise of inventive faculty, 3 and without departing from the principles and concepts of the invention. S Accordingly, it is not intended that the invention be limited, except as by the E claims set forth below.
    S > [0046] The verbs “to comprise” and “to include” are used in this document N 30 — as open limitations that neither exclude nor require the existence of also un-recited N features. The features recited in depending claims are mutually freely combinable unless otherwise explicitly stated. Furthermore, it is to be understood that the use of "a" or "an", i.e. a singular form, throughout this document does not exclude a plurality.
    CITATION LIST Patent literature WO 2006/038863 WO 2013/002687 Non-patent literature
    1. Luque, Rodriquez, Alvarez, Cova, TAPPI Pulping Conference 1994, p.507
    3. Orlando J. Rojas, John Song, Dimitris S. Argyropoulos Forest Biomaterials Laboratory, College of Natural Resources, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8005, USA, Juan Bullön Department of Chemical Engineering, Universidad de Los Andes, Mérida (Venezuela), “LIGNIN SEPARATION FROM KRAFT BLACK LIQUORS BY TANGENTIAL ULTRAFILTRATION”, Science and Technology, La Chimica e I’Industria - Gennaio-Febbraio ‘06 n. 1 - ANNO 88. (Year 2006)
    4. Selda Aminzadeh, Maris Lauberts, Galina Dobelev, Jevgenija Ponomarenkov, Tuve Mattsson, Mikael E. Lindstrom, Olena Sevastyanova, MEMBRANE FILTRATION OF KRAFT LIGNIN:
    STRUCTURAL CHARACTRISTICS AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY = OF THE LOW-MOLECULAR-WEIGHT FRACTION, Industrial Crops N & Products 112 (2018) 200-209.
    3 5. Wallberg, O.; Jonsson, A.-S.;Wimmerstedt, R., Ultrafiltration of kraft S black liquor with a ceramic membrane., Desalination 2003, 156, 145-153. E 25 6. Holmqvist, A:Wallberg, O.; Jönsson, A.-S., Ultrafiltration of Kraft Black o Liquor from Two Swedish Pulp Mills., Chem. Eng. Res. Des. 2005, 83, 3 994-999.S
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    [1] 1. A method for producing purified lignin salt from alkaline spent liquor from chemical cooking of lignocellulosic raw materials, comprising the steps of — decreasing the spent liquor pH to form a lignin precipitation suspension, — filtering the lignin precipitation suspension to form a filter cake and a filtrate, — mixing the filter cake into a dilution liquid to form an alkalilignin agglomerate colloid, — subjecting the alkalilignin agglomerate colloid to a large-pore membrane filtration, and — recovering a purified lignin salt concentrate, wherein the nominal cut-off value of the large-pore membrane filtration is at least 40 kDa.
    [2] 2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the spent liguor pH is lowered below
    11.
    [3] 3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the spent liguor pH is lowered to 9 —
    105.
    [4] 4. The method according to any claim 1-3, wherein the pH is lowered by addition of H2SO4, HCl or COs. = N 25 — 5.
    [5] The method according to claim 1, wherein the dilution liquid is water. o
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    [7] 7. The method according to claim 1, wherein the formed alkalilignin agglomerate E colloid is subjected to large-pore-membrane filtration with nominal cut-off values 9 in the range 40 — 400 kDa. D 30 O
    [8] 8. The method according to claim 7, wherein the cut-off value is in the range 50 — 200 kDa.
    9. The method according to claim 1, wherein the pH decrease is carried out at a temperature in the range 40 — 85 °C.
    10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the large-pore-membrane filtration is performed at a temperature in the range 20 — 85 °C.
    11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the large-pore-membrane filtration is performed at a pH in the range 7 — 11.
    12. A method according to claim 1, additionally comprising at least one step of rediluting — the purified lignin salt and subjecting it to large-pore-membrane filtration.
    133 A method according to claim 1, further comprising treatment of the concentrate.
    14. A method according to claim 13, wherein the treatment is evaporation, freeze- drying or spray drying.
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