Recycling of Phenolic Resin Insulation Boards

保温泡沫塑料在建筑领域无处不在，应用于空心墙、地板下和屋顶保温。虽然绝缘泡沫为热效率提供了巨大的好处，但在实现可行的循环经济之前，还有很多工作要做。泡沫的寿命可以持续几十年，但最终材料必须被回收和处理。该项目将开发一种方法，将绝缘泡沫化学回收为有用的化学物质，这些化学物质既可以用于制备新的泡沫块，也可以用于化学工业的其他地方。

Insulation foams are ubiquitous in the construction sector, with applications in cavity wall, under-floor, and roof insulation. Whilst insulation foams have provided enormous benefit to heat efficiency, there is much work to do before a viable circular economy is attained. Foams have a lifetime lasting decades, but eventually the material must be recovered and disposed of.This project will develop a method to chemically recycle insulation foam into useful chemicals that can either be used to prepare new foam blocks, or else used elsewhere in the chemical industry.