解聚
生命周期评估
聚酯纤维
持续性
有机催化
化学
生化工程
制浆造纸工业
有机化学
催化作用
经济
对映选择合成
生产(经济)
生态学
工程类
微观经济学
生物
作者
Suthawan Muangmeesri,Kiran Reddy Baddigam,Kranti Navaré,Varvara Apostolopoulou‐Kalkavoura,Kuntawit Witthayolankowit,Helena Håkansson,Aji P. Mathew,Karel Van Acker,Joseph S. M. Samec
出处
期刊:ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering
[American Chemical Society]
日期:2024-02-29
标识
DOI:10.1021/acssuschemeng.3c07435
摘要
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most common plastics and can be cascaded mechanically during its life cycle. However, recycling affects the mechanical properties of the material, and the virgin material is constantly in demand. If a worn material could be depolymerized to its chemical building blocks, then a virgin polymer could be generated from old fibers. In this work, we have developed a benign organo-catalytic depolymerization of PET to yield dimethyl terephthalate (DMT) and ethylene glycol (EG) without the need for purification of generated monomers. By recirculating the solvent and organo-catalyst, a solvent/substrate ratio of 3:1 was achieved. The depolymerization was successfully applied to other polyesters, polycarbonates, and polycotton. The cotton isolated from the polycotton depolymerization was successfully processed into viscose fibers with a tenacity in the range of nonwaste cotton-derived viscose filaments. The global warming potential (GWP) of PET depolymerization was evaluated by using life cycle assessment (LCA). The GWP of 1 kg PET recycling is 2.206 kg CO2 equivalent, but the process produces DMT, EG, and heat, thereby avoiding the emissions equivalent to 4.075 kg CO2 equivalent from the DMT, EG, and steam-energy production through conventional pathways. Thus, the net result potentially avoids the emission of 1.88 kg of CO2 equivalent. The impact of this process is lower than that of waste PET incineration and conventional PET recycling technologies.
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