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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 28, 2004
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2003
Kazushige Inoue, Moka, JP;
Akio Ikeda, Otake, JP;
Takato Kimura, Ichihara, JP;
Tomoaki Shimoda, Ichihara, JP;
Masahiko Tatsumi, Chiba, JP;
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Abstract
A method of recycling fusible polycondensation resin waste in a fusion polymerization apparatus is disclosed. The method of recycling polycondensation resins comprises adding polycondensation resin waste directly to a fusion polymerization apparatus to carry out the polycondensation reaction. The polycondensation resin waste may be supplied from any point of the polycondensation apparatus to carry out the exchange reaction and/or the polycondensation reaction between the resin being prepared in the apparatus and the resin waste supplied. The method may be carried out in a continuous fusion polycondensation system with more than one polymerization reactor connected in series. The polycondensation resin waste may be supplied from the outlet of a polymerization reactor during the initial stage of the polycondensation process (oligomerisation process) to carry out the exchange reaction and/or the polycondensation reaction between the resin waste and the resin being prepared in the later stage of the polycondensation process in a continuous fusion polycondensation apparatus with more than one polymerization reactor connected in series.