Conversion of waste polymers to carbon nanofilaments

纳米孔(来自聚合物残渣的纳米细丝)是PRIMA、KWI聚合物、Soleno和UdeS(UdeS)基于UdeS知识产权(IP)的协同项目，以及KWI聚合物的无氧分散技术。该项目的总体目标是开发和扩大碳纳米丝(CNF)合成工艺，其中包括两种新型热催化反应器结构(自动热裂解装置(ATP)和流体+流动催化床)的研发工作，以及对由此衍生的产品(CNF)作为聚合物添加剂的评估。这一过程基于美国关于碳封存的7,794,690项专利和UdeS拥有的20,070,253,886，20,050,220,695项美国专利申请。该项目的第一步是修改专利工艺，使用不可回收的聚合物(被丢弃在垃圾填埋场)作为原材料来生产合成气体+液体。用于重整的催化剂基于美国专利申请20,120,273,728，并且需要集成在所提出的工艺中。用于CNF生长的催化剂基于美国专利申请20,090,203,519，并将适应于控制CNF中所含的形状和催化剂含量的工艺。该项目将开发1 kg/h CNF合成KG-LAB反应器和处理废旧聚合物的ATP反应器，合成的CNF将采用KWI专门开发的KFusionTM工艺进行复合，以整合添加剂。该项目产生的总体加值是，废旧/残留聚合物将作为添加剂被评估为CNF，作为添加剂，提高可回收聚合物的质量，使KWI可回收复合聚合物达到其合作伙伴Soleno预期的规格。

NanoF-PoRes (Nano-Filaments from polymeric residues) is a synergetic project between PRIMA, KWIPolymers, Soleno and Université de Sherbrooke (UdeS) based on UdeS intellectual property (IP), and thenano-additive dispersion technology of KWI Polymers. The overall objective of the project is the developmentand scale-up of a carbon nanofilaments (CNF) synthesis process, which includes R&D work on two novelthermocatalytic reactors configurations (an auto-thermal pyrolyzer (ATP) and a fluid+mobile catalytic bed)and the evaluation of the so-derived product (CNF) as a polymers additive. The process is based on US patent7,794,690 on Carbon sequestration and US patents applications 20,070,253,886, 20,050,220,695 owned byUdeS. The first step of the project is to adapt the patented process to use non-recyclable polymers (which aredisposed in landfills) as raw materials to produce the synthetic gas+liquid. The catalyst for the hydrocarbonreforming is based on US patent application 20,120,273,728 and needs to be integrated in the proposedprocess. The catalyst for CNF growth is based on US patent application 20,090,203,519 and will be adapted tothe process to control the shape and catalyst % contained in the CNF. A 1kg/h CNF synthesis kg-lab reactorand an ATP reactor processing the waste/residual polymers will be developed during the project and thesynthesized CNF will be compounded by the KFusionTM process developed by KWI specially to integrateadditives. The overall plus-value generated by this project is that waste/residual polymers will be valorised asCNF, which, as additives, raise the quality of recycled polymers so that KWI recycled composite polymers willmeet the specifications expected by its partner Soleno.