Sunday, April 19, 2015

What is polyester? Manufacturing process: continuous process of PET OR Ethylene glycol

Polyester:
Polyester means many organic salts. Polyester is man made, synthetic polymer, polyester filament or staple fibre. Polyester fibre are chemically composed of at least 85% by wt. of an ester of a substituted aromatic carboxylic acid, including but not restituted terephthalate units and para substituted hydroxybenzoate units.


Polyethyne terephthalate, the repeating unit of then polyester with a degree of polymerization of 115-140 units.

Manufacturing process:

1.      Continuous process of PET:

Raw mlts:
The main raw mtls requird for the manufacture of polyester fibre are P-xylene, ethylene glycol and methanol.

1. Terephthalic acid or D.M.T:

   a. Terephthalic acid is made by oxidizing P-xylene with air and nitric acid.
   b. Terephthalene acid is esterified with methyl alchole to from Dimethyle terephthalate(DMT)




2.   2.   Ethylene glycol:

Ethylene glycol is made by catalytic oxidation of ethylene.


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