Aplicação de ultrafiltração na reciclagem de água na indústria de celulose e papel

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Cassiano Rodrigues de
• Data de Publicação: 2003
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: LOCUS Repositório Institucional da UFV
• Texto Completo: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/2964
• topic: Ultrafiltração; Águas residuais; Purificação; Qualidade; Metais alcalino-terrosos; Precipitação (Química); Resíduos industriais; Reciclagem; Celulose; Branqueamento; Resíduos de papel; Ultrafiltration; Wate water; Purification; Quality; Precipitation (Chemistry); Industrial residues; Recycling; Pulp bleaching; Paper industry; CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::RECURSOS FLORESTAIS E ENGENHARIA FLORESTAL::TECNOLOGIA E UTILIZACAO DE PRODUTOS FLORESTAIS

In the pulp and paper industry, the water use minimization is becoming an important issue. One way to reduce the water consumption is to reuse effluent such as in a closed-cycle concept. The possible reuse of segregated effluents is more attractive than the reuse of the end-of-pipe final effluent. Effluent originated from specific mill sites might have adequate quality to be recycled; otherwise it would be treated in a less costly manner. In paper mills, the main source of effluent is the so-called whitewater. The present work studied the viability of paper mill whitewater reuse in different areas of an integrated bleached kraft pulp mill after membrane ultrafiltration. The contaminant removal was evaluated and flux behavior was studied. The several types of whitewater from different paper mills did not show rigorous membrane fouling potential. The main potential process and product quality problems due to the reuse of treated whitewater in the paper mills were discussed. Ultrafiltration removed 100% of the suspended solids and more than 90% of turbidity but, as expected, did not remove the soluble components of the whitewater. One of the potential problems related to the formation of deposits is the calcium content present in the whitewater. In order to remove calcium, a process was proposed consisting of precipitation by pH increase followed by ultrafiltration. Excellent calcium removal was obtained at pH 10. The reuse of whitewater, ultrafiltered whitewater and low hardness ultrafiltered whitewater was tested in the last bleaching P-stage and compared with the use of fresh water. Bleachability of pulp remained the same in all simulations. The scale-forming potentials on bleaching filtrates were determined and evaluated. Water reuse in bleaching was possible through combined treatment of hardness removal and ultrafiltration of whitewater. This combination is attractive and innovative to be applied in the pulp and paper industry. Saves on the refining energy consumption were found on pulp from the low hardness ultrafiltered whitewater simulations. Optical and mechanical properties were not affected by water reuse in all analyzed samples. Further studies should be done in pilot or industrial scales to confirm laboratorial behavior.