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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 01, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 26, 2018
Unicharm Corporation, Ehime, JP;
Takayoshi Konishi, Kanonji, JP;
Toshio Hiraoka, Kanonji, JP;
Takashi Kato, Kanonji, JP;
Yoshihide Ishikawa, Kanonji, JP;
Noritomo Kurita, Kanonji, JP;
UNICHARM CORPORATION, Ehime, JP;
Abstract
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.