Recycling process for the recovery of cotton from polyester-cotton fabrics and/or fibers

Polyester-free cotton is obtained from a fabric and/or fibers containing polyester and cotton by reacting the fabric and/or fibers with an amine organocatalyst and/or carboxylic acid salt of same and an alcohol solvent. The reaction, which may be run in batches or as a continuous flow process, recov...

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Hauptverfasser:	Breyta, Gregory, Allen, Robert David
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	AFTER-TREATMENT NOT COVERED BY SUBCLASSES C08B, C08C, C08F,C08G CHEMISTRY COMPOSITIONS BASED THEREON FLEXIBLE MATERIALS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR GENERAL PROCESSES OF COMPOUNDING LAUNDERING METALLURGY ORGANIC MACROMOLECULAR COMPOUNDS TEXTILES THEIR PREPARATION OR CHEMICAL WORKING-UP TREATMENT OF TEXTILES OR THE LIKE TREATMENT, NOT PROVIDED FOR ELSEWHERE IN CLASS D06, OF FIBRES, THREADS, YARNS,FABRICS, FEATHERS, OR FIBROUS GOODS MADE FROM SUCH MATERIALS WORKING-UP
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Zusammenfassung:	Polyester-free cotton is obtained from a fabric and/or fibers containing polyester and cotton by reacting the fabric and/or fibers with an amine organocatalyst and/or carboxylic acid salt of same and an alcohol solvent. The reaction, which may be run in batches or as a continuous flow process, recovers (i) polyester-free cotton as a solid inert by-product of the reaction, (ii) the amine organocatalyst and/or carboxylic acid salt of same for reuse, (iii) a polyester monomer product, and (iv) unreacted alcohol. The reaction works on any polyester-cotton fabric and/or fibers, including those that have at least one additional material, such as polyethers polyolefins, polyurethanes, nylon, rayon, acetate, viscose, modal, acrylic, wool, and combinations thereof.