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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 21, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 03, 2020
Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft, Lenzing, AT;
Richard Herchl, Ried im Innkreis, AT;
Christoph Klaus-Nietrost, Vocklabruck, AT;
Sabrina Theis, Wels, AT;
Christian Weilach, Vocklabruck, AT;
Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft, Lenzing, AT;
Abstract
What is shown is a method for the recovery of raw materials from blended textile wastes, which includes the following steps in the given order: a) providing blended textile waste that includes at least a cellulose component and at least a polyester component, b) treating the blended textile waste in an aqueous treatment solution in order to depolymerize the polyester component and dissolve it in the treatment solution, c) separating the cellulose component from the treatment solution and recovering a cellulose raw material, d) filtering the treatment solution in order to remove foreign substances, particularly dyes and metal ions, from the treatment solution, and e) precipitating terephthalic acid from the treatment solution, separating the precipitated terephthalic acid, and recovering a terephthalic-acid-including polyester raw material. In order to, within the scope of the mentioned method, enable the recovery of raw materials with an increased level of purity, it is proposed that filtering the treatment solution in step d) should at least comprise a filtration by an adsorbent filter medium.