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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 03, 1983
Filed:
Dec. 10, 1981
Friedhelm Kapteina, Gelsenkirchen, DE;
Jurgen Rink, Hattingen, DE;
Didier Engineering GmbH, Essen, DE;
Abstract
Process and apparatus for continuous production of polyesters, characterized by an improvement in the esterification or interesterification stage, in which a mixture containing the starting materials, for example, terephthalic acid and ethylene glycol, is subjected to the shearing and homogenizing action of a rotor-stator, and the resultant homogeneous mixture is introduced into a thin-layer evaporator to produce a reaction mixture containing low molecular weight bis-hydroxyalkylene ester. This lower molecular weight product is then subjected to precondensation and polycondensation in accordance with conventional procedures to obtained the desired polyester product. In accordance with the present invention, the esterification degree can be increased substantially, without deteriorating the quality of the polyester.