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Due to the increasing amount of polyurethane waste, chemical recycling of these materials is a topic of growing interest for many researchers. The primary pur- pose of polyurethane feedstock recycling is to recover the starting polyol. In this study glycerolysis using glycerine from two sources and two purity grades is proposed as a method of chemical recycling. The main effort of this paper focuses on the employment of commercial glycerine of analytical grade and waste glycerine without purification derived from the biodiesel production, as a decomposing agent for polyurethane recycling. In this study, the influ- ence of polyurethane to glycerine mass ratio (PU/GL) and the type of decomposing agent on the chemical structure by FTIR, 1H NMR and GPC was examined. FTIR analy- sis of the glycerolysates showed absorption peaks similar to the virgin polyol. Those results are in compliance with GPC chromatograms, which showed for all samples, well- defined peak at ca. 13 min of retention time. The molec- ular weight of glycerolysates was ranging from 800 to 1300 g mol−1 depending on PU/GL mass ratio. The novel decomposition agent, namely waste glycerine derived from biodiesel production was successfully used in glycerolysis process.

Autorzy

• prof. dr hab. inż. Janusz Datta link otwiera się w nowej karcie ,
• Patrycja Jutrzenka Trzebiatowska link otwiera się w nowej karcie ,
• Diego Simón,
• Professor Juan F. Rodríguez