Green Recycling and Industrial Applicability of Waste Polyurethane Foams

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Green Recycling and Industrial Applicability of Waste Polyurethane Foams
Original language description
Continuously increasing world production of flexible polyurethane (PUR) foams during previous years is accompanied by accumulating large volumes of waste material coming out of, for instance, end-of-life car seats and mattresses. One of known methods that deal with the global problem of disposing the waste PUR foams is chemical recycling mainly by diethylene glycol. We are showing that the petrochemically derived diethylene glycol can be effectively replaced by variety of biobased polyols derived from plant oils such as castor, soybean or canola oil. Our exploratory research confirmed that the resulting mixtures of hydroxy functional oligomers are usable for making of rigid PUR thermo-insulation foams and alternatively also for making of PUR coatings,cast resins and elastomers. All these materials made by combining waste and biobased raw materials can be regarded as a new generation of cost-effective and environmentally friendly end products. Results of our work will be discussed.
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Project
<a href="/en/project/2A-2TP1%2F135" target="_blank" >2A-2TP1/135: *Novel polyfunctional hybrid polymers from renewable and recyclable raw materials with potential utilization of enzyme catalysts and nanoparticles.</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year
2007
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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