Abstract:
A METHOD IS DISCLOSED FOR PURIFYING DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE, WHICH HAS BEEN OBTAINED BY RECOVERY THEREOF IN SUBSTANTIALLY NON-AQUEOUS CONDITION FROM A PROCESS FOR SPINNING ACRYLONITRILE POLYMERS AND COPOLYMERS TO PRODUCE FIBERS AND YARNS, COMPRISING TREATING THE IMPURE DIMETHYLFORMAMIDE BY CONTACTING IT WITH TWO DIFFERENT ION-EX CHANGE RESINS WHICH ARE INSOLUBLE IN DIMETHLFORMAMIDE, ONE OF WHICH IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP OF STRONGLY ACIDIC RESINS CONSISTING OF SULPHONATED STYRENE-DIVINYL BENZENE COPOLYMERS, AND THE OTHER OF WHICH IS SELECTED FROM THE GROUP CONSISTING OF RESINS HAVING QUATERNARY AMMONIUM GROUPS IN HYDROXIDE FORM AND OF RESINS HAVING ALIPHATIC AMINO GROUPS.
Abstract:
"Process for the industrial production of polyacrylonitrile base spinnable polymers", in particular for the production of a spinning solution, constituted by a copolymer in which at least 85% by weight consists of acrylonitrile in dimethylformamide, and which not more than 15% is composed of comonomers preferably comprising sodium allyl sulfonate and methyl methacrylate, characterized in that it comprises the realization of a copolymerization phase in which the comonomers, in solution in dimethylformamide, are copolymerized at a progressively increasing temperature according to a sequence controlled by regulation and programmed variation of the residual pressure in the interior of the reaction environment, so as to maintain the mass in reaction under boiling condition, with distillation, essentially under reflux, of part of the unconverted monomer and of the solvent, being determined the programming of the aforementioned boiling ratio by controlling the residual pressure as a function of the composition of said mass, said copolymerization phase continuing with a distillation step for practically total removal of the unconverted comonomer and dimethylformamide in an eventual excess for the purpose of the desired concentration for the spinning of said solution. (Machine-translation by Google Translate, not legally binding)