Production of polyether-alcohol for making polyurethane foam, involves reacting a propoxylated starter in a tubular reactor supplied with alkylene oxide mixtures with increasing proportions of ethylene oxide

摘要

A method for making polyether-alcohols using DMC catalysts involves (1) reacting an H-functional starter with propylene oxide (PO) or a mixture of PO and ethylene oxide (EO) and then (2) transferring the mixture to a tubular reactor with at least 2 feed points (FP) for PO/EO mixtures constituted so that the mixtures added in stages 1 and 2 have different PO/EO ratios, there are different PO/EO ratios at different FPs and the mixture added in stage 2 (at least from the last FP) contains at least 40 wt% EO.