- Patent Title: Method for manufacturing recycled pulp from used sanitary products
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Application No.: US16785922Application Date: 2020-02-10
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Publication No.: US11319670B2Publication Date: 2022-05-03
- Inventor: Takayoshi Konishi , Toshio Hiraoka
- Applicant: UNICHARM CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Ehime
- Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: UNICHARM CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Ehime
- Agency: Hauptman Ham, LLP
- Priority: JPJP2014-121822 20140612
- Main IPC: D21H11/14
- IPC: D21H11/14 ; D21C5/02 ; D21B1/32 ; D21C9/153 ; B09B3/00

Abstract:
A recycled pulp that is reusable sanitary products is efficiently manufactured by recovering pulp fiber from used sanitary products containing the pulp fiber and a polymer absorbent. The method of the present invention comprises: a step applying a mechanical force to the used sanitary products in an aqueous solution containing a polyvalent metal ion or an acidic aqueous solution with a pH of 2.5 or lower and thus degrading the used sanitary products into the pulp fiber and other materials; a step separating the pulp fiber from the mixture of the pulp fiber and other materials that has been formed in the degradation step; and a step treating the pulp fiber thus separated with an ozone-containing aqueous solution with a pH of 2.5 or lower.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200173104A1 METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING RECYCLED PULP FROM USED SANITARY PRODUCTS Public/Granted day:2020-06-04
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