Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Kobe Steel, Ltd.

Other

Shigetoshi Suzuki

Masahiro Yamagata

Tadashi Yoshida

Fumihiko Kasuya

Osamu Kato

Masaaki Sasaki

Satoshi Nishida

Katsuhisa Kodama

Yoshiyuki Nagase

Ryuichi Fukuzato

Takao Naito

Terukazu Matsuda

The present invention relates to a method for decomposing and recovering an isocyanate compound, which comprises: continuously mixing and dispersing into water at high pressure and high temperature an isocyanate compound having at least one isocyanate group or group derived from an isocyanate group in a molten state or solution state, supplying a liquid mixture containing the isocyanate compound and the water at high pressure and high temperature continuously to a reactor, followed by subjecting the isocyanate compound to a decomposition reaction in the reactor, and recovering a raw material for the isocyanate compound or a derivative thereof; and an apparatus for decomposing and recovering an isocyanate compound, which comprises: a reactor which brings water at high pressure and high temperature into contact with an isocyanate compound having at least one isocyanate group or group derived from an isocyanate group to cause a decomposition reaction, a water supply line which continuously supplies the water at high pressure and high temperature to a reactor, a compound supply line which continuously supplies the isocyanate compound in a molten state or solution state to the water supply line, an on-off valve which communicates the compound supply line with a vicinity of a communication portion of the water supply line to the reactor, a dehydrating device which conducts a dehydration of a decomposition reaction product discharged from the reactor, and a purification device which purifies the decomposition reaction product after the dehydration.

Method for decomposing and recovering isocyanate compound

A concentrating method and a concentrating system for concentrating polyisocyanate residues that that can effectively concentrate polyisocyanate residues from crude polyisocyanate comprising polyisocyanate and polyisocyanate residues in a short time and can also suppress increase in viscosity to provide stable transport of the residues and prevent blockage of the transport line, and a treating method and a treating system for decomposing the concentrated components to polyamine. The polyisocyanate residues are first heated on the boil by the distiller to be concentrated to a midterm concentrating rate, and then, the polyisocyanate residues are concentrated to the final concentrating rate by evaporation using a evaporator. This can allow the polyisocyanate residues to be decomposed to polyamine to be recovered by setting a Cl content of a high boiling point distillate fraction concentrated to be not more than 2 weight % and then putting the high boiling point distillate fraction into contact with high temperature and high pressure water to be hydrolyzed by the decomposing apparatus.

Concentrating method, treating method, concentrating system and treating system for polyisocyanate residues

A process for hydrolyzing and recycling polyurethanes as target compounds to be hydrolyzed into raw materials or derivatives thereof for the target compounds, comprising bringing pressurized water in a liquid state at a temperature of 190 to 370&deg; C. into contact with the target compounds in a reactor to hydrolyze the target compound; followed by post-processings, such as dewatering, addition, distillation, separation, and liquid separation for a hydrolyzed reaction product discharged from the reactor.

Process for hydrolyzing and recycling a polyurethane

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Ibaraki, Japan

Shigetoshi Suzuki