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MATERIALS TODAY COMMUNICATIONS
卷 33, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.mtcomm.2022.104588
关键词
PET waste; Microwave-assisted depolymerisation; Glycolysis; Transesterification; Heterogeneous catalysis; Calcium oxide
资金
- Science Foundation Ireland
- [12/RC/2278_P2]
This paper reports a simple and efficient chemical recycling method for PET, using the environmentally friendly and cheap catalyst CaO and microwave irradiation. This method can achieve high yield of highly crystalline BHET in a very short time, and can realize the recycling and reuse of materials, showing great potential applications.
The widespread adoption of chemical recycling of poly (ethylene terephthalate) (PET) is hampered by long reaction times, high energy consumption and the use of metal catalysts that are either toxic or cost prohibitive for industrial use. Herein, we report a simple PET glycolytic process that combines an environmentally friendly and cheap heterogenous catalyst, calcium oxide (CaO) with microwave irradiation to obtain the monomer bis(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHET), which can be easily separated by crystallisation. After the process opti-misation, depolymerisation of PET waste was achieved in 3.5 min under atmospheric pressure, to obtain highly crystalline BHET with a yield of 75%. To our knowledge, this is the fastest heterogeneous glycolytic process reported in the literature to-date, using a cheap and eco-friendly catalyst. Moreover, by using a heterogenous catalyst and avoiding the need for product precipitation by water addition, CaO and ethylene glycol materials were separated and reused, thus validating this protocol as a potential green and scalable route for PET recycling.
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