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Efficient Plastic Waste Recycling to Value‐Added Products by Integrated Biomass Processing
Author(s) -
Beydoun Kassem,
Klankermayer Jürgen
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201902880
Subject(s) - polyoxymethylene , biomass (ecology) , polymer , polymerization , circular economy , waste management , production (economics) , monomer , materials science , process engineering , chemistry , organic chemistry , engineering , ecology , oceanography , macroeconomics , economics , biology , geology
The industrial production of polymeric materials is continuously increasing, but sustainable concepts directing towards a circular economy remain rather elusive. The present investigation focuses on the recycling of polyoxymethylene polymers, facilitated through combined catalytic processing of polymer waste and biomass‐derived diols. The integrated concept enables the production of value‐added cyclic acetals, which can flexibly function as solvents, fuel additives, pharmaceutical intermediates, and even monomeric materials for polymerization reactions. Based on this approach, an open‐loop recycling of these waste materials can be envisaged in which the carbon content of the polymer waste is efficiently utilized as a C1 building block, paving the way to unprecedented possibilities within a circular economy of polyoxymethylene polymers.