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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1994
Filed:
Feb. 08, 1993
Mark A Paisley, Upper Arlington, OH (US);
Robert D Litt, Orient, OH (US);
Battelle Memorial Institute, Columbus, OH (US);
Abstract
A method is described for the recovery of high yields of monomers from waste and scrape polymeric materials with minimal amounts of char and tar. The process involves heating the polymer at a heating rate of at least 500.degree. C./sec in a flow-through reactor. Heating is accomplished by contacting the polymer with a heat transfer material such as hot incandescent sand. A flow-through reactor is used to provide the high heating rates and short reactor residence times for the monomer product. The flow through reactor may be a circulating fluidized bed reactor, an entrainment reactor, a cyclonic reactor or a gravity reactor.