Process for washing powdery and/or granular resins and a washing device therefor
AssigneeIdemitsu Petrochemical Co., Ltd.
InventorsYoshinari Koyama, Daigo Shirota
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Abstract
A process for washing a powdery and/or granular resin involves bringing the powdery and/or granular resin into contact with a washing liquid in a counterflow fashion in a tubular body with a plurality of static mixing elements disposed continuously in series, thereby removing impurities adhering to the powdery and/or granular resin and producing the powdery and/or granular resin with a less content of impurities. A washing device for use with the washing process contains a tubular body in which the static mixing elements are disposed continuously in series, and this construction is simpler than conventional ones and does not require a stirring power and mechanism to remove the impurities from the powdery and/or granular resin.
Claims12
A process for washing a powdery and/or granular resin comprising;
- contacting said resin with a washing liquid in a countercurrent fashion in a tubular body with a plurality of static mixing elements comprising first, continuous clockwise spiral, static mixing element means, and second, continuous counterclockwise spiral, static mixing element means, wherein both of said mixing elements are disposed in series in alternating relationship, wherein each of said spiral elements comprises flute means disposed at an angle of about 30 to 180.degree., and wherein the ends of said flute means of each of said mixing elements intersect with the end of the flute means of the next series mixing element at an angle of about 30.degree. to 90.degree..
A process for washing a powder and/or granule comprising polyarylene sulfide comprising:
- supplying deionized water at a linear velocity of 0.1-1,000 mm/sec in the upward flow to a lower portion of a tubular body of a vertically disposed device;
- supplying said powder for granule of polyarylene sulfide, having an average particle size ranging from 500 to 5,000 .mu.m, at a rate 0.01-10 times by weight, as large as the rate of supply of said washing liquid, to an upper portion of a tubular body of said washing device;
- passing said powder and/or granules counter current to said deionized water in contact with clockwisely twisted spiral element means having a twisted angle ranging 30.degree. to 180.degree., which clockwise element means is disposed alternately and continuously in series with counterclockwisedly twisted spiral element means, wherein the ends of said spiral element means intersect at an angle of about 30.degree. to 90.degree., and wherein said tubular body has a length of 100 cm to 1,000 cm and an inner diameter of 5 cm to 50 cm.
A washing device for washing a powdery and/or granular resin comprising an tubular body with a plurality of static mixing elements disposed continuously in series;
- wherein the tubular body has a supply section for supplying the powdery and/or granular resin and a discharge section for discharging a washing liquid at a portion of the tubular body and a supply section for supplying the washing liquid and a discharge section for discharging the powdery and/or granular resin at another portion of the tubular body.
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