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Decomposition of PET in High Pressure Subcritical Water  

Chung, Seung-Hee (School of Chemical Engineering and Bio Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Lee, Jung-Hoon (School of Chemical Engineering and Bio Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Shim, Jae-Jin (School of Chemical Engineering and Technology, Yeungnam University)
Kim, Jae-Seong (School of Chemical Engineering and Bio Engineering, University of Ulsan)
Kim, Sunwook (School of Chemical Engineering and Bio Engineering, University of Ulsan)
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Korean Chemical Engineering Research / v.40, no.6, 2002 , pp. 709-714 More about this Journal
Abstract
To investigate the decomposition kinetics of poly(ethylene terephthalate) the high pressure molten-polymer injector has been devised. Using the experimental apparatus equipped with batch reactor and high pressure molten-polymer injector the decomposition of PET has been performed at constant pressure of 250 bar and 300, 320, $340^{\circ}C$, respectively. At each temperature conditions the conversions after initial 1 minute have shown very high values such as 76-90%. As the temperature increases the conversion reaches more than 98% at 10 minutes. Based on the second order reaction model the reaction rate constants have been obtained. We can calculate the conversions within 2% errors utilizing optimized rate constants. The activation energy for the decomposition of PET at subcritical conditions has shown to be 54.4 kJ/mol.
Keywords
PET; Decomposition; Subcritical Water; Rate Constant;
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