Biomass-resource-derived polyester and production process thereof
AssigneeMitsubishi Chemical Corporation
InventorsTakayuki Aoshima, Yasuaki Miki, Katsuhisa Kumazawa, Satoshi Katou, Tadashi Uyeda, Toyomasa Hoshino, Noboru Shintani, Kenji Yamagishi, Atsushi Isotani
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Abstract
The present invention provides a resin capable of contributing greatly to solve environmental problems and problems related to exhaustion of fossil fuel resources and having physical properties suited for practical use. The polyester according to the present invention has a diol and a dicarboxylic acid as constituent components and has an amount of terminal acid of 50 equivalents/metric ton or less.
Claims13
A biomass-resource-derived polyester, comprising as a main repeating unit thereof a dicarboxylic acid unit and a diol unit, wherein at least one of the dicarboxylic acid and diol used as raw materials of the polyester is obtained from biomass resources, a nitrogen atom content in the polyester except nitrogen atoms contained in covalently bonded functional groups in the molecule of the polyester is 0.01 ppm to 50 ppm, and wherein a metal amount of a polymerization catalyst selected from the group consisting of titanium, zirconium, tin, antimony, cerium, germanium, zinc, cobalt, manganese, iron, aluminum, magnesium, calcium, strontium, sodium and potassium in the polyester, is 5 ppm to 130 ppm.
A biomass-resource-derived polyester resin composition, which comprises 99.9 to 0.1 wt. % of a polyester according to claim 1 and 0.1 to 99.9 wt. % of a thermoplastic resin, biodegradable resin, natural resin or polysaccharide.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.