โ Scribed by Fabio Bertini; Guido Audisio; Pier Luigi Beltrame; Laura Bergamasco; Antonella Castelli
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Thermal degradation of polystyrene has been studied in the presence of water under subcritical conditions (hydrous pyrolysis). The experiments were performed in closed systems under inert atmosphere, in the temperature range of 300 -320ยฐC, for 1-24 h. The results showed that the presence of water increases the yields of the volatile products, mainly in the first steps of the pyrolitic process, with a higher selectivity of monomer. In order to improve the effective phase contact between water and the polymer during the degradation, hydrous pyrolysis runs have been carried out on silica-supported polystyrene. Some of these experiments were performed using a stirred reactor. Under these conditions, the above effects appeared to be greatly emphasized. Qualitative and quantitative analyses of the degradation products have been reported for the series of runs investigated. The best recovery of styrene has been achieved at 320ยฐC and 8 h, being close to 71%.
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Oligomers of polystyrene (PS) obtained from initial degradation studies of an anionic polymerized styrene have been degraded in uucuo using the molecular still method at temperatures between 150 and 250ยฐC. The volatile decomposition products were separated and characterized by gel permeation chromat