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A New Continuous Flow Microwave Radiation Process Design for Non-Isocyanate Polyurethane (NIPU)

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POLYMERS
Volume 15, Issue 11, Pages -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/polym15112499

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non-isocyanate; polyurethane; microwave; carbon dioxide capture; scale-up; green process

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The efficiency of synthesizing NIPU using conventional heating is low, while microwave radiation can achieve continuous synthesis and recirculation of NIPU. By using a flow tube reactor for continuous microwave radiation synthesis, the energy efficiency is greatly improved, making it a reliable and energy-saving green method.
Non-isocyanate Polyurethane (NIPU) has been known to result from a thermal-ring-opening reaction between bis-cyclic carbonate (BCC) compounds and polyamines. BCC can be obtained from carbon dioxide capture using an epoxidized compound. Microwave radiation has been found to be an alternative process to conventional heating for synthesizing NIPU on a laboratory scale. The microwave radiation process is far more efficient (>1000 times faster) than using a conventional heating reactor. Now, a flow tube reactor has been designed for a continuous and recirculating microwave radiation system for scaling up NIPU. Furthermore, the TOE (Turn Over Energy) of the microwave for a lab batch (24.61 g) reactor was 24.38 kJ/g. This decreased to 8.89 kJ/g with an increase in reaction size of up to 300 times with this new continuous microwave radiation system. This proves that synthesizing NIPU with this newly-designed continuous and recirculating microwave radiation process is not only a reliable energy-saving method, but is also convenient for scale-up, making it a green process.

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