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GREEN SMELT [2 records]

Record 1 2002-09-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Chemical Elements and Compounds
CONT

Displacement feeder. Suitable for slightly-soluble reagents such as alum, fused sodium carbonate, etc., and for the injection of trisodium phosphate into boilers.

CONT

The paper industry experiences explosions [which] occur when paper smelt(mostly fused sodium carbonate with a few percent of sodium sulfide, sodium chloride, and minor ingredients) is quenched in large containers of "green liquor"...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments et composés chimiques
CONT

Pot à déplacement. Convient pour des réactifs peu solubles: alun, carbonate de soude [sic : de sodium] fondu, etc., et pour l'injection de phosphate trisodique dans les chaudières.

Spanish

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Record 2 1993-02-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Papermaking Machines
DEF

A storage tank into which the molten chemicals, called smelt, form a recovery furnace drop and are mixed with water or weak liquor to form green liquor.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Machines à papier
DEF

Réservoir, le plus souvent muni d'un agitateur, dans lequel de l'alun, du salin ou d'autres matières sont mélangés avec de l'eau pour former une solution.

Spanish

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