Process for manufacturing wet strength resins

Abstract

The invention relates to a process for manufacturing wet strength resins, which process comprises a polyamide reactor for amidation, an EHH reactor for epihalohydrin addition, a maturing tank for maturing, a ring-closure and cross-linking reactor for polymerization, and in the process a reaction mixture containing at least EHH and at least polyaminoamide epihalohydrin adduct is manufactured. The process further comprises between the maturing tank and the ring-closure and cross-linking reactor a membrane unit comprising a membrane for dividing the reaction mixture stream from the membrane unit into two streams: a permeate stream comprising un-reacted epihalohydrin and a reject stream comprising EHH/PAIM adduct guided to the ring-closure and cross-linking reactor.

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