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AssigneesAsahi Kasei Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Shinto Paint Co., Ltd.
InventorsKoichi Matsumoto, Koryo Ito, Tetsuya Hirota, Hiroaki Maruoka
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The present invention offers a method for recovering the paints suitable to an object that, in a booth for a spray coating used for coating a material, the oversprayed paints can be easily recovered and recycled as they are or after a simple adjustment as reusable paints and it also offers a receiver used for said recovery. A method for recovering paints, characterized in that, a receiver using an ultrafiltration membrane or a microfiltration membrane is placed in a spray coating booth and water or organic solvent is contacted the one side of said membrane so that the oversprayed paint are received on the other side of said membrane and recovered therefrom; and a receiver for recovering paints, characterized in that, said receiver has two or more hollow fiber membranes arranged on a plate where at least one end of the membranes is open, with a fixing material which fixes and holds the hollow fiber membranes on the plate and distributing pipes connecting to the open end of each of the hollow fiber membrane.
A method for recovering paints, comprising the steps of placing a receiver comprising at least one of an ultrafiltration membrane and a microfiltration membrane in a spray coating booth for receiving oversprayed paint, and passing at least one of water and organic solvent through said membrane from one side thereof to the other side thereof, and receiving and recovering the oversprayed paint at the other side of said membrane.
A receiver for recovering paints, comprising at least two hollow fiber membranes arranged on a plate wherein at least one end of the membranes is open, a fixing material for fixing and holding the hollow fiber membranes on the plate and distributing pipes connecting to the open end of each of the hollow fiber membranes.
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