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Solutions for the
pulp & paper industry
Evonik is one of the world’s largest producers of hydrogen peroxide.
Our worldwide capacity is more than 950 000 tonnes per year.
We are the innovative leader in high quality products and services,
offering more than a century of worldwide experience to serve the megatrends
of the modern society and to deliver an exceptional value for our customers.
To ensure optimal supply of hydrogen peroxide to the world market, we operate
production facilities at 13 locations around the world.

Excellence
Our environment, safety, health and quality values set out our commitments in these
areas. Together with more detailed guidelines and procedures, they form a binding
framework. The ESHQ values define protection of people and the environment as
central elements of our activities.

Evonik is committed to the global Responsible Care initiative, and we constantly

strive to improve our performance in health, safety, environment and product
stewardship. Our manufacturing facilities worldwide are certified according to the
ISO 9001 as well as 14001 and 50001 series.

Grades
For normal pulp applications and effluent treatment Evonik recommends the
use of HYPROX® standard grade hydrogen peroxide.
For specialty applications, such as food, pharma, cosmetics and generation
of chlorine dioxide, we recommend our various PERSYNT® grades.
For process water treatment and slime control we offer PERACLEAN® products
containing a mixture of peracetic acid (PAA) and hydrogen peroxide.

Grade content, % (w/w) we guarantee

About 50 percent of the hydrogen peroxide is used as an ecologically safe bleaching agent in the HYPROX 500 49.5 – 49.9 % H2O2
pulp & paper industry and textile industry.
HYPROX® 600 59.5 – 59.9 % H2O2 specification
Furthermore, hydrogen peroxide is an environmentally friendly chemical used for many oxidation
reactions, water treatment, exhaust air treatment and for various disinfection applications. HYPROX® 700 69.5 – 69.9 % H2O2
Decomposing to yield only oxygen and water, hydrogen peroxide is one of the cleanest and most
versatile chemicals available.
PERSYNT 500 LC 49.5 – 49.9 % H2O2 specification incl.
Peracetic acid is a potent antimicrobial agent which is rapidly active at low concentration against PERSYNT 600 LC 59.5 – 59.9 % H2O2
Eur.Ph.7, DAB 10, DIN EN 902
a wide spectrum of microorganisms. Solutions of peracetic acid are used for many different water
treatment applications such as the treatment of process water and industrial or municipal waste water.
PERACLEAN 5 approx. 5% PAA specification
Evonik manufactures a range of high quality hydrogen peroxide and peracetic acid products and
PERACLEAN 15 approx. 15% PAA
offers them under different brands such as HYPROX®, PERSYNT® and PERACLEAN®.

Reliability
Evonik’s global presence as well as our highly developed supply chain management
guarantees a reliable worldwide product availability.
HYPROX® and PERSYNT® are available in railcars, trucks and ISO-containers.
PERACLEAN® can be delivered in 30 kg cans, 220 kg drums, 1 m3 containers and
in bulk.
Chemical pulp Mechanical pulp De-inked pulp Water treatment
In the bleaching of Kraft pulp, the Mechanical pulp, generated by the In paper recycling the removal of printing In many mills there is a need to disinfect
internationally most important pulp type, conventional ground-wood process inks is the most important objective the water system to prevent microbial
HYPROX® is one of the chemicals applied or modern refining technology (TMP, when the fibres are reused in the manu- contamination of fibrous material in the
in multi-stage processes. Alkaline CTMP), is bleached with HYPROX® to facture of graphic papers or tissue grades. circulation water. Polysaccharides, which
conditions are required to generate the high brightness levels. Yield and fibre Brightness and colour removal are are leached from the pulp, act as nutri-
active bleaching species from HYPROX®, properties are kept on a very high level. secondary targets. ents for microbial growth and result into
the perhydroxyl anion. Consequently, The conventional approach is the formations of microbial or semi-chemical
extraction stages can be used for application of HYPROX® together with Fibre brightening is achieved mainly slimes. These cause critical failures in
peroxide addition to boost the effects caustic soda as alkali source, sodium with HYPROX®. The alkaline conditions papermaking and reduction in the quality
on delignification and brightness. silicate for stabilization and buffering during the repulping of the recovered of paper, resulting in overall losses.
and a chelant for the sequestering of paper are ideally suited for a simultaneous The uncontrolled growth of slimes can
If applied in the last stage of the heavy metal traces in the wood pulp. bleaching step. ultimately cause the breakages of paper
bleaching sequence, HYPROX® allows A relatively low dosage of HYPROX® and, as a consequence, a stoppage of the
top brightness levels with improved The alternative approach is to replace is sufficient to improve brightness and production line.
brightness stability, optimized economy caustic soda by magnesium oxide, prevent alkaline yellowing.
through savings in the total chemicals soda ash or calcium hydroxide. Solutions of PERACLEAN® have been
required, low residue of halogenated In a post-bleaching stage, e. g. in a hot proved to be an effective bio-film
compounds both in pulp (OX) and in HYPROX® gives high brightness and disperser followed by a bleaching tower, remover in the water systems and are
effluent (AOX) and low effluent colour. high brightness stability against aging the brightness is further improved. used as an environmentally friendly
and yellowing, moderate effluent load oxidizing biocide in the pulp & paper
HYPROX® is applied as the exclusive and good biodegradability. industry.
bleaching agent in brightening of sulfite
pulp. In single or two-stage processes it The addition of HYPROX® into the
allows bleaching to full brightness. effluent is a useful tool to prevent odors
PERSYNT® is recommended, if the pulp and anaerobic conditions.
is used in food applications.
 References
Suess, H. U.,
“Pulp Bleaching Today”, De Gruyter,
ISBN 978-3-11-021824-4, 2010
Suess, H. U., Davies, D., Dietz, T.,
“Pushing the Brightness Ceiling of
Difficult Softwood Kraft Pulps”,
PAPTAC conference Montreal, 2008
Dietz, T., Suess, H. U., Schmidt, K.,
“Aspects of Optimization of Mechanical
Pulp Bleaching – A comparison of
alternative alkali sources for hydrogen
peroxide bleaching”,
Das Papier 12/2008, 39-43,
Zellcheming Jahrestagung
Wiesbaden, 2008
Davies, D. Suess, H. U., Dietz, T.,
“A Comparison of Options to Improve
Brightness Stability of Chemical Pulp”,
International Pulp Bleaching Conference
Quebec, 2008,

Services of Evonik Suess, H. U., Hopf, B. Schmidt, K.,

“Optimising peroxide bleaching of
Evonik has a long history in improving A variety of additional services are offered deinked pulps in the disperser”,
our customer´s processes to increase to our customers such as: PTS-CTP Deinking Symposium
product quality and competitiveness. München, 2002
In the past 40 years, more than 100 • Laboratory trials for optimization of bleaching sequences
technical papers have been presented or for evaluation of alternative processes
at conferences or published in pulp & • Mill trials for implementation of optimized process
paper magazines. parameters for cost effective production
• Start-up assistance and troubleshooting in bleach plants
• Safety training, on-site safety inspections and audits
• Technical and engineering services for tank and dosing
units including design, construction, consultancy
and emergency assistance
• Supply chain management including well-trained
customer service, supply network and vendor managed
inventory
• Provision of information such as product documentation,
scientific papers and patents
• Support during registration and certification processes,
e.g. Eco-labelling
 Disclaimer
This information and all further technical advice is
based on our present knowledge and experience.
However, it implies no liability or other legal
responsibility on our part, including with regard to
existing third party intellectual property rights,
especially patent rights. In particular, no warranty,
whether expressed or implied, or guarantee of
product properties in the legal sense is intended or
implied. We reserve the right to make any changes
according to technological progress or further
developments. The customer is not released from
the obligation to conduct careful inspection and
testing of incoming goods. Performance of the
product described herein should be verified by
testing, which should be carried out only by
qualified experts in the sole resposibility of a
customer.
Reference to trade names used by other companies
is neither a recommendation, nor does it imply that
similar products could not be used.
HYPROX®, PERSYNT® and PERACLEAN®
are registered trademarks of Evonik Industries AG
or one of its subsidiaries.

Evonik Resource Efficiency GmbH Sales & Marketing, EMEA Applied Technology, EMEA
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Germany
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