Central Glass Company, Limited

Satoshi Nakahata

Chikashi Kawashima

Takashi Yasumura

Akira Ishihara

Sunao Koga

Fumiyoshi Yoshikawa

Takeshi Asanawa

Seiichi Yoshida

A plastic laminate having an apliphatic polyamide resin surface layer and a fluororesin surface layer is produced by using an intermediate layer formed of a blend of an aliphatic polyamide resin with a fluorine-containing graft copolymer, which is obtained by graft polymerization of a suitable monomer such as vinylidene fluoride, or a mixture of monomers, with an elastomeric copolymer of at least two principal monomers including at least one fluorine-containing monomer, e.g. vinyliden fluoride and chlorotrifluoroethylene, and an unsaturated peroxy compound. The fluorine-containing graft copolymer is a soft, flexible resin and is well compatible with aliphatic polyamide resins and also with various fluororesins. The fluororesin surface layer uses, for example, polyvinylidene fluoride, a vinyliden fluoride based copolymer or the fluorine-containing graft copolymer. The lamination can be accomplished by simply welding the two surface layers to the intermediate layer. The laminate can be produced in tubular form by a coextrusion method and can be used, for example, as an automotive fuel hose.

Plastic laminate having polyamide resin surface layer and fluororesin

The subject is the preparation of chlorotrifluoroethylene (CTFE) by a known reaction of 1,1,2-trichloro-1,2,2,-trifluoroethane (R-113) with zinc powder dispersed in an alcohol such as methanol, and the object of the invention is industrially easily and smoothly carrying out the reaction in a continuous manner. The disclosed process uses a plurality of stirred tank reactors, usually two or three reactors, which are connected to each other in a series arrangement by overflow pipes. A dispersion of zinc powder in an alcohol is continuously fed into the first reactor only so as to allow the dispersion to overflow into the next reactor and then into the remaining reactor(s) in turn, and R-113 is continuously fed into each reactor. CTFE is continuously discharged from each reactor, while zinc in the initially fed dispersion is gradually converted into zinc chloride. In the last reactor the conversion of zinc reaches 90% or above. Together with the remaining zinc powder the solution of zinc chloride in the alcohol is continuously discharged from the last reactor and can easily be recovered.

Continuous process for preparing chlorotrifluoroethylene

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Saitama, Japan

Satoshi Nakahata