Mitsui Chemicals, Inc.

Toyo Engineering Corporation

Yozo Maeda

Mune Iwamoto

Shiro Otsuzuki

Ryuichi Sugimoto

Koji Kawano

Tetsuo Maeda

Kenichiro Matsuba

Hiroya Honda

A method for removing volatile materials, comprises adding a blowing aid to a polymer composition containing volatile materials, mixing them in a static mixing apparatus, and extruding the resultant mixture by an extruding apparatus into a devolatilizing tank, thereby the mixture is made to be blown, to cause removal of the volatile materials. First, the blowing aid (6) is discharged with an addition nozzle apparatus (2), in a direction opposite to the direction of the flow of the polymer composition (1), to be added, and the polymer composition is introduced into the static mixing apparatus (3), at a pressure at which the blowing does not take place, thereby mixing them. Then, using the extruding apparatus (11), the resultant mixture is extruded into the devolatilizing tank (4), so that the polymer is made into a blown product at such a temperature and a pressure that the blowing coefficient B is 1.4 or more, thereby causing the removal of volatile materials.

Method for removing volatile materials from a polymer composition

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Chiba, Japan

Yozo Maeda