PROCESS FOR THE RECOVERY OF POLYURETHANE FROM SOLVENT CONTAINING WASTE PASTES GENERATED IN THE MANUFACTURE OF POLYURETHANE

摘要

A polyurethane regenerate can be obtained from solvent-containing waste pastes generated in the manufacture of polyurethane by adding an acylpolyethylene glycol ester to the pastes in an amount of 1/10 of the weight of the paste, subsequently adding water with mixing in an amount of about 12 times the weight of the pastes, mixing for one hour at room temperature, expelling the solvent with steam, removing the solvent from the resulting 2-phase distillate and filtering and drying the polyurethane granulate floating in the water of the distillation residue. The process provides for an environmentally responsible disposal and/or recycling of polyurethane wastes at low energy cost and chemical cost and independent of whether the wastes contain solvents, or are lacquer-like or pasty.