Karl Fischer Industrieanlagen Gmbh

Dieter Otto Taurat

Luder Gerking

Rainer Hagen

A method and device for recovering linear polyesters, such as PET and PBT, from polyester waste of the most varied form, in a continuous manner, in which undried or not dried-through waste is melted, the polymer chains being hydrolytically degraded by adhering moisture, and in which diol, corresponding to the basic constitutional unit of the polymer, is added to the melt resulting in glycolytic degradation, and the melt so treated is further condensed to the desired degree of polymerization.

Method and device for the recovery of linear polyester

Described are a process and an apparatus for the aftercondensation of polycondensates, wherein moist and amorphous polymer in a granular or powderous form is continuously introduced from above into a single reactor. The granulate flows downward under gravity, with a hot gas being caused to flow in counter-current relation thereto. The reactor is formed as a continuous shaft or column which has positioned in the upper portion thereof an agitating element acting to prevent agglutination of the granulate. The granulate is crystallized and pre-dried in the upper portion of the shaft or column. In a further (subsequent) portion of the shaft or column, drying and aftercondensation take place without separation from the remainder of the shaft or column.

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Berlin, Germany

Dieter Otto Taurat