Catalytic Depolymerization (Chemical Recycling) of Textile, Cloth Waste with Methanol (IMAGE)

Japan Science and Technology Agency

Catalytic Depolymerization (Chemical Recycling) of Textile, Cloth Waste with Methanol

Caption

Perfect chemical conversion of textile (PET) waste to raw chemicals (DMT). (a) textile (cloth) waste, (b) before reaction with methanol (20.0 g scale) in the presence of iron catalyst, (c) solution after the reaction (cooling at room temperature) (d) analytically pure product DMT collected by simple filtration (yield >99.9 %).

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Kotohiro Nomura

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