Unicharm Corporation

Takashi Kato

Takayoshi Konishi

Noritomo Kurita

Toshio Hiraoka

Kouichi Yamaki

Yoshihide Ishikawa

Provided is a method that, when pulp fibers are recovered from used absorbent articles that have been put into collection bags, makes it possible to safely and sanitarily crush the used absorbent articles while suppressing costs. A method for recovering pulp fibers from used absorbent articles, the method comprising: a crushing step (S) in which collection bags (A) in which used absorbent articles have been sealed are put into a container (), the collection bags in the container are transferred to a crushing device () that communicates with the container, and, bag by bag, the crushing device crushes the used absorbent articles in the collections bags in a deactivating aqueous solution; and a separation step (S) in which the pulp fibers, a highly water-absorbent polymer, and the deactivating aqueous solution are separated from the crushed product and deactivating aqueous solution obtained in the crushing step.

Method and system for recovering pulp fibers from used absorbent articles

A method of recycling superabsorbent polymers derived from a used absorbent article, the method including: treating the superabsorbent polymers with ozone water after inactivation; reactivating, with an alkaline aqueous solution, the superabsorbent polymers treated with the ozone water; and adding hydrophilic fine particles to the superabsorbent polymers reactivated with the alkaline aqueous solution and then drying the superabsorbent polymers.

Method for recycling superabsorbent polymer derived from used absorbent article and recycled superabsorbent polymer derived from used absorbent article

The present invention provides a method which, in the process of manufacturing recycled pulp fibers from a mixture of pulp fibers and a high water-absorption polymer, enables efficient manufacturing of the recycled pulp fibers while properly removing the high water-absorption polymer from the pulp fibers. This method comprises: a supply step (S-) for supplying an aqueous solution containing a mixture () to a driving fluid supply port (DI) of an ejector () and simultaneously supplying, to a suction fluid supply port (AI) of the ejector, a gaseous substance (Z) which is capable of degrading a high water-absorption polymer so as to make the degraded polymer dissolvable; and a treatment step (S-) for discharging, from a mixed fluid discharge port (CO) of the ejector that is connected to a lower part of a treatment tank (), a mixed liquid, which is formed when the aqueous solution and the gaseous substance are mixed within the ejector, into a treatment liquid (P) within the treatment tank, so as to lessen the high water-absorption polymer in the mixture.

Method for manufacturing recycled pulp fibers

The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide a recovery method for an organic acid. The recovery method makes it possible to efficiently recover an organic acid that is included in a deactivating aqueous solution that includes excrement. This recovery method has the following features. A method for recovering an organic acid that deactivates a highly water-absorbent polymer that is included in used absorbent articles, the method being characterized by including: a deactivation step (S) in which the highly water-absorbent polymer is immersed in a deactivating aqueous solution that includes an organic acid and has a prescribed pH and the highly water-absorbent polymer is deactivated; a highly water-absorbent polymer removal step (S) in which the deactivated highly water-absorbent polymer is removed from the deactivating aqueous solution; a pH adjustment step (S) in which the deactivating aqueous solution is adjusted to a prescribed pH; a concentration step (S) in which the deactivation step (S), the highly water-absorbent polymer removal step (S), and the pH adjustment step (S) are repeated using deactivating aqueous solution that has gone through the pH adjustment step (S) and the organic acid in the deactivating aqueous solution is concentrated; and an organic acid recovery step (S) in which the organic acid is recovered from the deactivating aqueous solution.

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Takashi Kato