APPLICATIONS
Recycled Fiber Bleaching
Recycled Fiber Manufacturers can increase lower-grade feedstock usage while maintaining end-product quality, lowering energy and lowering chemical costs with NEAT as part of their treatment train.
CONVENTIONAL FIBER BLEACHING
Recycled fiber bleaching is a process that involves the use of chemicals to remove the color and impurities from recycled paper fibers, making them more suitable for use in white paper products. Material supply and demand has lead manufacturers to use lower cost, lower quality feedstock materials. This currently requires significant chemical and energy use to turn lower quality feedstocks into white finished paper products.
OUR APPROACH
By replacing harsh chemicals with low-doses NEAT, manufacturers can increase the number of oxidation reactions for better bleaching at lower temperatures while using less auxiliary chemical. This can enable a facility to process a wider range of darker, lower cost, lower quality recycled fibers.
Reduces process temperature from 90°C to 60°C
Requires no proprietary equipment
Reduces energy, water, and chemical usage
Increases use of lower quality and darker recycled feedstock
BENEFITS ANALYSIS
Adding NEAT to the bleaching stage allows producers to increase the amount of lower-cost, lower-quality feedstocks being sourced while maintaining finished product quality. The lower temperature neutral pH characteristics enabled from the use of NEAT, reduces costs, improves worker safety, and reduces use of downstream neutralization chemicals. Over the course of a year a recycled fiber plant processing 60 metric tons of fiber per day could realize these benefits with NEAT.
ENERGY SAVINGS
$800 - $1,700 per day
FEESTOCK SAVINGS
$2,100 per day
CAUSTIC REDUCTION
$60 - $240 per day